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The Story of Spike the Spikey-Haired Goldfish
In the magical land of N-Z File Cabinet there lived, in a pond, a Spikey-haired goldfish named Spike.
Spike was living a very happy life chewing dried corn and eating rocks when suddenly he found a shoe in one of the rocks! Actually, maybe it was a rock in one of the shoes, or something like that. Anyway, he saw it as a bad sign and rushed to his mirror.
When he got there he discovered that his toothpaste was gone.
"This is bad!" Spike declared, "for my personal hygiene."
He looked up to the surface and saw a dark, circular shadow. As he was drawn to it by a magnetic field, Spike noticed that it was a cucumber birthday cake.
When he climbed on the platter on which the enomous blue cake stood, he noticed the peanut butter was swirling all around. Out jumped a box turtle.
"My name is Eltrut," it said. "Help me find my satin gloves."
So they searched all across the Mailtox Galaxy for the next 360,421,897,534 milliseconds. Then they got bored and danced.
But their happy rituals were brief as the ocean started to become sudsy and smelling of peach, for some evil being had spilled several zillions of gallons of peach flavored shampoo and conditioner into the sea.
Eltrut (which is turtle backwards, don't ya know) and Spike stopped dancing and washed their hair in the ocean.
But a huge red spot, about a half-inch in diameter, was approaching the turtle and fish ever so consistantly. When it finally reached them it declared:
"I am Henry the Cranberry and I am evil!"
"Why?" asked Eltrut.
"I don't know, I was born that way, and leave me alone! Who asked you anyway?"
Eltrut shrugged and Henry flew away.
"P.S." Henry called as he ascended, "You might want to try my blue cucumber cake!"
So they unwisely followed that advice and they were quite satisfied.
"Yum," they said, as the mystical fairy named O came upon them.
"You may have one wish," said O.
"For both of us or one for each of us?" asked Spike.
"Um...um...I dunno...T?" O called.
"Yeah?" said another mystical fairy who was apparently named T.
"What do you think?"
"Um, well..." T thought hard. "There's a solution to every problem: Let's dance!"
So Eltrut, Spike, O, T, and all the other fairies named after letters N through Z danced to their favorite disco songs. One fairy even had a 'fro. Spike and Eltrut never got their wishes; the disco party was much more fun.
Until the fairy named Y got her foot stuck in the marshmallow goo that covered the floor.
"Why oh why?" asked Y. Then all the fairies left.
"BUM BUM BUM," said Spike.
"What?" asked Eltrut.
"I dunno, I just suddenly felt urged to say BUM BUM BUM."
Spike returned to Spike's pond and Spike found out that nobody was allowed to speak pronouns anymore. It wasn't allowed...what? I just spoke a pronoun? I--er, narrator's under arrest? Oops.
The moral: Never speak pronouns when pronouns are not allowed because pronouns confuse everyone.
The End!
P.S. Eltrut did eventually find Eltrut's gloves. The gloves were on Eltrut's feet the whole time.
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