Meaningless Articles

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What Could Be Nicer, Or More Splendid: A Meaningless Pheasant On A Meaningless Wall, Yesterday

(Starts quietly

tiptoeing past the advertisement........................................................................................................)

Meaningless articles might spring, up out of nowhere, all the better to entrap the unwary idiot who might be daft enough to fall prey to their futile allure.

It's all in the MIND, you know

Meaningless articles might loom, with bloated transparent bodies and flailing tentacles, like a psychedelic, rainbow-spattered deadly octopus lurking in the literary ocean.

Sir Robert Peel, Wallace Beery, Grace Darling, Mary Quant and Victor Hugo knew it; do YOU know it?

Who could escape their elephantine vastness, once fairly engulfed therein? "Not I", said the Cardboard Nun, astride her silver tricycle on the yellow lane to the Trombone Factory.

Shew me a halved wilderbeest and I'll give thee an undernourished WHIRLING DERVISH

Bar billiards is best avoided while you creep along the alimentary canal of Labi Siffre.

I'll sell the SIDEBOARD for ninepence if the CARDBOARD ADMIRAL will avert his GLASS EYE while we get QUEEN MARY into this CHINESE WHEELBARROW

Save yourself the trouble of a socially-crippling James Corden obsession. Avoid all those nasty mole-slaughtering chores. Settle down, drink this nice crayfish and listen to my favourite record, 101 Miniature Elephant Explosions In Stereo by The Heckmondwyke Lady Bagpipers with Enoch Powell on Jew's Harp.

Have a slice of SIR ROBERT WALPOLE, 1ST EARL OF ORFORD. Hurry, get it while it's hot.

What could be nicer, or more splendid?


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