- Kiki the nene felt a queer rush of panic as she passed through the doors, leaning on her trusty maple cane. Her mallard, Koko, was in trouble for arranging this surprise party - she had a rule that she did not want to be feted. A duck of her era did not like surprises. She hoped that she was not trailing any goo or dags - what must her feathers look like? Ignoring Kiki's glares, Koko prepared the crowd of truest well-wishers up for a birthday song, starting with "Do Re Mi Fa So La ..." Above the din, the jo steams in the guests' cups. All the while, Kiki covets the privacy of the hay bed in her cave, trying to focus on her qi. (Mike)
- Kiki the nene felt a queer rush of panic as she passed through the doors, leaning on her trusty maple cane. Her mallard, Koko, was in trouble for arranging this surprise party - she had a rule that she did not want to be feted, even if the friends were all hip (or un hip for that matter). A duck of her era did not like surprises. She hoped that she was not trailing any goo or dags - what must her feathers look like? Ignoring Kiki's glares, Koko prepared the crowd of truest well-wishers up for a birthday song, starting with "Do Re Mi Fa So La ..." Above the din, the jo steams in the guests' cups. All the while, Kiki covets the privacy of the hay bed in her cave, trying to focus on her qi. (Mike)
- Steaming jo, maple syrup (not the cheapo sugar cane stuff), roast nene, the din of Alice (97.3 FM) on the radio ... - all the things that Lizzy coveted were ready for Lizzy to be feted. The memo had started: "Re: Lizzy's birthday". The memo's arrival at such a late hour had caused a queer feeling of panic. "What the hay?" Julia had exclaimed (using a weird, un hip expression dating back to the cave man era). Nevertheless, humming "Do Re Mi Fa So La ..." as was her rule, Julia readied her pad for the big surprise brunch to-do, cleaning the goo and dags off the cats. She could not dis her truest friend Lizzy. As she cleaned, she thought of short, obscure, high scoring words for Scrabble games: qi, xis, ... Finally, all was ready, the doors opened, and Lizzy entered with a big grin on her face. (Mike)
Words:
- Re
- Hour
- La (an interjection of surprise, or the sixth note of the diatonic scale)-> lax
- De - part of lots of phrases from Latin (e.g., de facto)
- Era
- Rule
- Doors
- Goo
- Jo
- Steams
- Truest
- Covet
- Cave
- Hay
- Din
- Qi -> Qis - vital energy - perhaps the most overused word in Words
- Un - not really a word in my opinion - means "United Nations" or a negating prefix
- Queer
- Dags - a hanging end or shred; matted or manure coated wool
- Maple
- Panic
- Nene - an endangered goose of the Hawaiian islands
- Feted - honored with a party
- Cane
- Even
- Hip
- Dis
- xis - multiple instances of the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet
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