On Mon Oct 30 09:21:13 2000, Miashara <s2mlmill@titan.vcu.edu> wrote:
A little piece of demented prose on the subject of water and
bells... and perhaps indirect scatological humor... maybe. The
lynching begins at midnight. BYO torches and pitchforks...
Sale at Walmart!
They hang out on the FFML, waiting like vultures for the appropriate moment to
stuff that little smiley-face mascot in the toilet and raise pitchfork and
torch prices through the roof. ^_^
Sighing, Ranma waited for the female audience members to finish
assorted acts of violence on Ranma's 'friends'. After a moment, she
cleared her throat again.
Same old, same old.
Yeah, well... There's a certain comfort in such familiar things. :P
"Wanna fight?!"
"YEAH!"
Methinks this fight is not honest in origin. Perhaps a desire to be in no
way involved with a poetry reading cause base non-belligerent motives?
Hmmm, I'll take that, too. :)
A mallet, flying from the front row, pegged Ranma on the head, while
a bonbori was delivered to Ryouga's cranium, courtesy of Shampoo.
"READ!!" several voices screamed.
I get the impression there's been a lot of hype about this.
Remember Nabs sitting in the corner counting her cash?
Grumbling, Ranma straightened her now crumpled sheaf of poesy.
"'Golden Beels, er, Bells." She rolled her eyes.
"I was walkin' down the street,
When the sound of furin tinkled in my ear.
I stopped and wondered
At the thousand golden bells I did hear--"
Mmmn hmm.
heh. It's *supposed* to be bad. ;)
"BWAAAHAHAHAHA-- UUURK!!" Shampoo's second bonbori sent Ryouga into
an unplanned nap, and severely dented her weapon. She blinked at it,
then hit Ryouga again for good measure.
"A-HEEEEM!!!"
Shampoo smiled cutely, winked at a steaming Ranma, and sat back down
on the doujou floor. "Airen go on, now."
Ranma having a poetical bent so desirous to his female suitors they're
willing to go to any length to hear them?
They're willing to go to any lengths to appear to want to hear them, especially
when the Big Three Fiancees are involved... Akane, however, is genuinely
interested in seeing an, er, softer side of Ranma, however misplaced it ended
up being.
"Errr... thousand golden bells I did hear.
Like drops of fallin' rain,
That, er, tinkled through my brain."
A few audience members shifted around, unconsciously glancing out
the open shoji of the doujou..
"I was walkin' down the street,
When bicycles chimed in my ear.
I stopped and wondered
At the ringing, tinkling, jingling I did hear."
Yuka turned to Sayuri. "You know, this is really awful."
"Shhh!"
"Well it is." Yuka humphed and hunched back onto her seat.
Wait for it...
"Like drops of fallin' rain,
That ran sloshing down the drain."
Akane smacked her forehead and, after a moment, crossed her legs. A
light rain began to fall outside.
"I was walkin' down the street,
When cell phones went off all around."
Sayuri said, "Yeah, this is really bad."
"Told you."
Yup.
"SHHH!" Akane glared at her friends and turned her attention back to
Ranma.
"Tinkle, tinkle, jingle, jingle,
A million beepers made a sound.
Like a rushin' waterfall
Drenchin' me and all."
Groans echoed throughout the doujou, and several people were
squirming in their seats. Rainwater ran off the roof and poured into
puddles, the noise clearly audible to the listeners.
A few minutes and several stanzas later, the writhing crowd of
friends, rivals, and relations hoped desperately that the next verse
would be the last. With her own legs crossed and hopping from foot
to foot, Ranma sallied forth with the final lines.
Thanks you, oh DF, for not writing the whole thing. I have received the
impression that my being happy with that is probably not a bad thing.
Hehehehe. I didn't really want to have to *write* whole thing, either. :)
"I was walkin' down the street,
When drops of rain I did meet... Ooog.
The sun shone through and well
The golden drops of bells."
Then again, you could hit with a little more anyway. Whatever works.
Well, you have to have the closer, and for reasons that are about to be shown.
"Was it my imagination or did that last verse not match the rest?"
Genma held up a sign. <"Water under the bridge... ..."> *Flip.*
<"Anou, forget I said that.">
And that was worthy of Gary.
Better get his opinion on that. ;)
Nice.
Thanks. It was just dashed off without much thought, but if you got one laugh
out of it, then I'm satisfied. ^_^
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