November 8, 2004
A new short story for my website(hopefully)
There are several disadvantages of writing the subject titles before writing the post. For although you may know what you want to write about beforehand (which I usually don’t) sometimes you don’t write what you thought you were going to write and you can only do so many “Time for another post” posts.
I have herewith decided to attempt the writing of a new short story for here. I have absolutely no clue what I’m going to write and since I seldom do any extensive editing what you are about to read could be interesting. So without further ado I am going to show of my typing and writing skills.
Once upon a time a long time ahead, technology had advanced so far as to make writing obsolete. Portable typing devices had grown so popular that handwriting was no longer even taught in schools, unless you went to a special collage on the ancient communication methods of past centuries.
Now into this setting a scientist from 1802 time warped himself. Of course, back in those times, the typewriter had not even been invented.
The scientist name was Leoapold Stowkalidan and in order that it will be even harder to prove this story false, I won’t say where he was from. However, I have a feeling that Einstein must have found his notes. But on arriving in the technologically advanced world he was most struck with the plumbing facilities. Also with the
Okay, I am about to do something that I do often in my stories. Stop. For one thing, I don’t really know where to go from here and I think I’m better at fairy tales. For those who would like to know what an unsuccessful story is like, I will leave the above in. But any-rate Leapold Stowkalidan was never able to get back.
Once upon a time there was a beautiful young princess who loved to sing. The fact that she could not, while singing, make any sounds pleasant to the ear did not bother her in the slightest, though it did bother nearly everyone around her.
In fact, it bothered the king so much that he secretly sent out a proclamation to everyone in the kingdom, with the exception of the princess, that a high reward was offered for anybody who could make the princess’s singing bearable to those around her.
Nearly all of the music teachers in the kingdom came to the capitol and tried their best with the princess. But it was to of no avail. The princess had no notion of notes and seemed absolutely incapable of improving her voice.
But, as is usual in tales of this sort, along came a clever young man who was able to solve the problem. He had been born on a chicken farm where the chickens made quite a lot of noises. Cotton was also raised on the farm and he had found that by applying a small amount of cotton to ones ears the loud noises of chickens was effectively quieted.
There fore he decided to see what the reward was for making the princess’s singing bearable. He set out to the capitol and soon arrived. He informed the king that he had an invention that would make the princesses sing bearable. As the princess was singing in a nearby room and making an even louder racket than usual, the king suggested immediately exhibiting the invention. The clever young man did and the king and finding the result so pleasant, for silence was a thing unheard of at that court, he immediately told the clever young man that he had just earned the promised reward. Of course the clever young man was excited and immediately asked what the reward was. The king smiled and told him that the reward was the princesses hand in marriage.
To say that the clever young man did not exactly feel as much joy and elation as he would have had the reward been even a medium size amount of money would be an understatment. The princess was not very beautiful. But he made the best of it and cheerfully married the princess. Hopefully they lived happily ever after but I know they lived noisily ever after.
MORAL: It is usually a good idea to find out what you are getting yourself into before getting into it.
And that was a piece of fiction on how earplugs where invented. Comming up next on Bethjoy.com, Another Post!