************* THE ALCHEMIST *************
After 60 years of frustration, the amnemonic
Salomon Trismosin finally discovered the secret of
Transmutation....
20 Loth (10 ounces) Lead.
1 Mark unalloyed Silver.
Immerse in Flux for 2 Hours.
Skim the Silver.
Cast your Gold.
As he recorded his formula he smiled...
"Respect, Retribution, Immortality"!!!
(Unfortunately he earlier inadvertantly discovered Disappearing Ink!)
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Ahhhh....Gone AND Forgotten!!!
If you or anyone you know has written a Friday Flash 55
Please come tell The G-Man
I will visit, read, enjoy, comment....Then BOOK!!
So from the most gilded and gracious host from coast to coast
Have a Kick Ass Week-End!!!!!
(Hey Hedgewitch, you likey Amnemonic? Hehehehe)
38 comments:
Hey!!!! Really? 8:09 ...
OK...
Yahtzee!
dolp...lost to the ages...amneumonic....is that a real word...bet he had a hard time learning how to spell his name too...smiles....
mine is up!
margaret....i got held up googling the definition of amneumonic...haha...
I am most pleased with the sonorous spondees of anmenic...amnesiac...anemic--whatever that was, sir. You receive the Trophy of the Golden Quill, and I know you will find an appropriate place to put it.
This was hilarious.
I went with a kinder, gentler version of the universe tonight--but no, there are no pods in the basement:
She Moves
ha, Brian. But you have to SPELL it correctly in order to look it up :)
And you know what? I couldn't find it on dictionary.com AND googling it still left me wondering... but I think "absent-minded" might work.
OK, G-Man... Thanks for the tongue twister and vocabulary lesson
Here is mine:
<a href="http://margaretbednar365.blogspot.com/2012/08/casanova-for-poetic-asides-wednesday.html>Casanova's Game</a>
Really!!! One would think I'd have this down by now. Here is another attempt:
Casanova's Game
See, people are totally wrong when they say, "if you can't remember then it must not have been important." Grrr.
Mine is up
You can tell everyone is out enjoying a summer night. There aren't many left (unless you live in the south :). I'll be back tomorrow morning.
Goodness all these big powerful words and ink! invisible or not tiz fun! Thanks.
http://izzy-conversing.blogspot.com/2012/08/ff5581712-absurd-with-my-mother.html
We have much to discover and many mistakes to make.
I like the picture of the quill writing the stuff in that indecipherable language.
For some reason my favorite part is "immerse in flux". Maybe it reminds me of a flux capacitor. ;)
Thanks for another Friday 55!
Mine's here. :)
Love this tale! Thanks so much for the laugh. I really needed it tonight. Mine is up. http://razzamadazzle.wordpress.com/2012/08/16/another-sad-ending/
This, Gentle Reader, is why good memorization skills are so important!
Here's mine: Tantalized
Amazing! Amnemonic? Whoa. I kept thinking what is this guy - in utero? (Ha.)
Very clever. Here's mine, though now wish I'd consulted thesaurus first!
http://manicddaily.wordpress.com/2012/08/16/record-keeping-huitain-aging-brain-also-flash-55/
Yeah, that would be about my luck!
Flux! of course!
Aloha from Honolulu
Comfort Spiral
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the ancient equivalent of forgetting to back-up your data....you are probably already having a kick ass friday, my 55 is up and hopping.
I'm in with Father Knew Best.
I'll be back to read tomorrow.
HA! you get better every week, G!
mine's up ~
http://myheartslovesongs.com/2012/08/16/three-six-nine/
LOL easy mistake to make! ;)
Mine's up.
Discoveries are inadvertent or are inventions :)
whatever! loved the sound!
mines up
Mine is up at http://instantwords.blogspot.in/2012/08/back-on-two.html
Interesting G-man ~ I like the formula ~
Sorry, I am late:
http://a-sweetlust.blogspot.ca/2012/08/dreaming.html
Oh well... It was payback! LOL
Mine's up:
What really happened
Have a great weekend Galen. Don't get too tired from kicking ass. :)
Eureka! :D
(oops!)
Love your stuff!
Mimi
The Collage Pirate
i don't need no disappearing ink to make stuff fade away...aging is hell.
Hysterical, Galen. That's the kind of thing that I would do.
My 55 is at:
http://rnsane.blogspot.in/2012/08/friday-flash-55-all-aboard-august-17.html
Wow, that's a mouthful first thing in the morning! ;)
Mine's up...happy weekend!
Sheer genius, I tell ya! Your 55 is sheer genius! Loved it (and I bet hedge was indeed impressed).
Freeze frame
Hey, I'm impressed, you show-off, you. Well done.
Wonderful tale of discovery.
Mine is here -
http://janukulkarni.blogspot.in/2012/08/blemished.html
Wow...this is one of your best one yet! Awesomeness. You did so ROCK this 55,Galen!!!
Mine is here
Have you a ROCKING WEEKEND!!!
hugs
shakira
http://aninklingofsorts.blogspot.ca/2012/08/those-sinful-banknotes.html
Exhausted and relieved at the same time, I WILL have a kick ass weekend, here's my 55
Hey G-man!
Thanks for the *cool* comment! ;)
I'd LOVE to try a 55! Mayhap this Friday? In sooth, I'd like to blog all day long......but the Real World is really annoying, eh?
I haven't a clue about my blog's tech-ness. I switched my profile to Google+ for easier access but, apparently not. I have 5 blogs so I think that might be the problem.
I have that bloody word verification on at present as a Tattie Bogle (scarecrow) post I did a few weeks back attracted about a ZILLION spams and I can't dodge them.
Any-hoo, thanks for reading my stuff! I'll give it a shot this Friday! ;)
Have a goatie kind of day!
~Mimi
So, that's what happened to mine the last 2 weeks - disappearing ink. Yeah, that's the story I'm going with.
So transmutation is all abut making up new words?
Oh poor guy! I wonder how many more important discoveries went that way.
I've been away so I'm late arriving. But here's my 55.
sometimes combining inventions is a bad idea!
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