Friday Fictioneers for May 3rd, 2024

Dear Mistress Rochelle,

Please excuse Mr. Bill’s absence as he was poetically abusing himself.

Sincerely,
NaPoWriMo

♥⇔♥

I could not pass up Ted’s excellent picture of a funny memory. Rochelle, from whose blog we all learn so well, can be found by clicking on Ted’s photo. From there you may, in May, write a micro-blurb story according to the rule of Her Fabulous Highness.

PHOTO PROMPT © Ted Strutz — Click it to ride over to Rochelle’s Blog.

Genre: SNL Fake History
Title: He’s Gonna be Mean to Me
Word count: 100

The flyer said, “Script writers wanted: interviews, 8PM Saturday night, 30 Rock Plaza, studio 8H.” I went.

Before I knocked, I heard a high-pitched voice, “Oh Nooooo, Miss Sally. Do it again.” A female voice yelled, “Idiot! When I said, ‘Bite me,’ I didn’t mean for you to bite me, Dummy.”

I knocked. I heard banging and doors slamming. The squeaky voice said, “Please come in, Mister Bill.”

I entered. A stuffed doll in a chair said, “If you can script a skit, you start tonight.”

When I told him I couldn’t do that, he yelled, “Oh nooooooo, Mister Bill.”

Look both ways and remember nineteen-seventy-eight.
Mind the gaps but save the records, ducks, dolls, skits, and names.

The celeb ducks are (L-R) Freddie Mercury, John Belushi, Willie Nelson, and Jerry Garcia. Click this pic to read more stories.

 

 

25 thoughts on “Friday Fictioneers for May 3rd, 2024”

    1. TBH, I never really liked the Mr. Bill skits. I thought they were dumb/corny.
      But, that is the prompt and the number of people who call me “Mister Bill” is way out of hand. 🙂

      Glad all over that ya loves it.

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      1. Oh phew… I didn’t want to insult you. I hate that and the Mr. Gumby and Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood and and and…

        I bet you do get called that!

        I came thisclose to writing about Trump because that’s what I first saw when I saw the doll.

        You know it!

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    1. Glad you liked it, Rochelle.

      Most of my memories from those days (70s) are set in (confined to) a USAF nuclear alert facility in a room with at least 20 other “raunchy” Air Force Crew Dogs.

      My favorite SNL characters were Father Guido Sarducci and Roseanne Roseannadanna. 🙂

      Peace (and “it’s always something”),

      Bill

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  10. That actually happened to me once. It wasn’t SNL, but I got a job writing for a web series after following up on a flyer. Covid killed it, but it was a good experience for a while.

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