Copyright: Dawn Q. Landau
Dr. Rosa Bonamie could not
believe her amazing discovery --- an island in the middle of the Pacific made wholly
of gingerbread, with a bit of whipped cream here and there as
well!
"What a fascinating
people must have once lived here!" she thought. "Did they have books,
science, social media? If only I could have spoken with them."
With that she heard a guttural
sound and behind a mass of whipped cream she spotted a man made of
gingerbread! He spoke:
"I am Lord Oakrum, last
of the Gingerbread Men."
Dr. Bonamie rushed to his
side, lifted him in the air, and swallowed him whole.
"Damn! If only I
could have controlled my love of gingerbread, I'd have learned so much instead of wiping out the entire race!"
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Hey, why don't we get together for some gingerbread this holiday season? Buildings and countryside only!
LOL! This wins my vote as the best Friday Fictioneers entry!
ReplyDeleteGod, I love gingerbread. I can totally sympathize with Dr. Bonamie here.
Thank you, but if you sympathize with Dr. Bonamie, here's hoping you're in the confectionary business and not the anthropology one. Critical research ruined! But delicious.
DeleteHahahahhahahhahahahahahahahaha
ReplyDeletei got a good belly laugh with this one.
Snap......
as in gingersnap!
Randy
I love all those laughs, Randy! Just be careful of that belly with all the ginger snaps. I want it to keep laughing for many years to come.
DeleteOnly you could have come up with this, Perry. What a wondrous place your creative mind is!
ReplyDeleteThe sewer is a wondrous place? Thanks, Dawn.
DeleteOmigoodness .... it DOES look like gingerbread .... !
ReplyDeleteNow THIS really did make me laugh -- good one!
Frankly I couldn't see it as anything else, although the whipped cream swirls do leave something to be desired. Thank you!
DeleteIs there no limit to your imagination? Great take on the prompt.
ReplyDeleteThere is no limit, but there is a quota. When the quota is reached, we'll have to smuggle my imagination in! Thanks, Sandra!
DeleteLove it! A Finnish colleague at work used to make gingerbread houses for Christmas.
ReplyDeleteQuick, tell her to cook up some live Gingerbread men for us to chow down on!
DeleteDear Perry,
ReplyDeleteToo bad Lord Oakrum didn't run, run as fast as he could. Your story is baked to perfection and proves you haven't lost your imagination.
Shalom,
Rochelle
It wouldn't have mattered. He'd have been eaten by the fox anyway. And I actually baked the story for 8 minutes too long.
DeleteDear Blogspot Man,
ReplyDeleteI laughed at your punchline and cried when I realized I'd have to leave a comment on a Blogspot Blog. But here goes....Great job with Dr. Bonamie. I loved how she had absolutely zero control. Guffaws ensued.
Aloha,
Doug
Doug, I actually don't like Blogspot either and i know it somehow kills certain comments (hopefully mostly the negative ones). But it's where I started and I really like the look of the blog now, including the cartoon, and after all nobody much reads it anyway, so why switch? Dr. Bonamie thanks you for recognizing her lack of self control but she's too busy eating to write to you.
DeletePerry, Hilarious! : ) I'd guess you were hungry when you wrote this. Could Dr. Bonamie be cast out of her profession for eating inhabitants of the areas she studies? It could be she's spent too much time studying cannibals. She may have trouble getting Thanksgiving invitations from now on. : ) ---Susan
ReplyDeleteI think her report back to the University will omit some details, like how long the Gingerbread tribe has been extinct. And yes some folks to whose homes she's been invited for Thanksgiving have turned up missing, so it is likely she may have to hit the island for a meal come the last week of November. And you're right, I am hungry!
DeleteDr. Bon Ami really cleaned up, didn't she? :-) This was so enjoyable and now I'm too full for dinner. But zero calories!
ReplyDeletejanet
Janet,
DeleteNo, lotsa calories. But you can afford it!
So many of us say, "If only," after it is too, too late. Very funny, Gingerbread Man.
ReplyDeleteOh, who can make a sunrise, sprinkle it with .... oh, sorry, that's the Candyman. My bad.
DeleteA great stand against the evils of gingerbread men - a brave soul, you are sir1
ReplyDeleteIt's a tough job, but somebody has to eat them!
DeleteOh what fun this is. And We do gobble things up too much, without thought for the consequences. But I am getting very hungry now.
ReplyDeleteI got some gingerbread here for us, but remember --- only houses and countrysides!
DeleteHaha, my first laugh of the day on my day off work! Well done!
ReplyDeleteKeep it here on all of your days off!
DeleteYou and I were on the same wavelength this week, Perry. I saw S'mores and you saw gingerbread, so I guess we both had food on the brain. Did she eat the rear end too? I've had several women chew on mine, but so far none of them took a real bite. :)
ReplyDeleteRussell, I've heard the several women who chewed on yours only did so because everything else for miles around was eaten and even then they needed cocktail sauce. If you're looking for a real bite, try an alligator. Oh, and have a bit of Lord Oakrum on me!
DeleteOh Crumb! Poor gingerbread man. Thanks for the giggles.
ReplyDeleteI feel sorry for him too, putting his trust in Dr. Bonamie and then he is no more. Now, if only we could find his children and eat them!
DeleteThe doctor got her just desserts when she ate the gingerbread man! Thanks for a sweet story today.
ReplyDeleteTwo puns in that small number of words absolutely deserves extra credit. I'll see if I can scare up some gingerbread for you.
DeleteSo funny. That Rosa woman, keep clear.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Patrick. But she's right behind you now!!!!
DeleteOh dear, it's always wise to think before you eat. Easier said than done though, especially where gingerbread is concerned :)
ReplyDeleteGingerbread is kind of addicting, but it would take a Rosa size appetite to wipe out a species. Hope she's at least full now!
DeleteAh... and even worse.. gingerbread mildew of old gingerbread men is lethal..
ReplyDeleteFortunately with Rosa we never had any old gingerbread men.
DeleteWhoopsie! Ha ha! I wanted to go there, Perry! Darn it! It was always my dream to go to Gingerbread Island, and now, I see it's been wiped out. Oh, nooooo! l'm going to treat myself to some whip cream now to feel better!
ReplyDeleteWell, the land and buildings and whipped cream are still there and who knows, you may run across a gingerbread chicken. Can't be bad.
DeleteDear Perry, you and Russell think alike! Good story and funny as is Russell's. Very entertaining and too bad she ate before asking questions.
ReplyDeleteNan :)
Thanks, Nan! But which story made you hungrier?
DeleteSince i was born on December 21, my mom always made gingerbread boys. It's my favorite cookie --- more than chocolate chip. Point me to that island, Perry!
ReplyDeleteExtinction of a whole species was never so delicious. I can see why he was the last one. :) Sounds like a delicious place to be. Now I really want some gingerbread.
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