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Oy!!
Slow down!
Sorry
Had to get this one out though, to make room in my brain. It's been rattling around in there for a couple of months now - most distracting.
Hah
Yeah, what she said. Catch up..mutter, mutter. Shrug, I'll cope... hey, nice but... marigolds? A brand of rubber gloves or something?
Kristina
Sorry yeah - rubber gloves
So common here that the brand name is almost inter-changeable with the item. I would have put a footnote, but that would have taken five of my 1337 words, and I already had to chuck 150.
Where?
Where is this shop????? Or the address of the house by the coast?????
Love it!!
Hugs,
Erica
you got an address for this guy ?
my luck, I cant afford him anyway but still ....
Dorothycolleen
That is brilliant!
Taking the "curse of the genie" (i.e. overly literal interpretation of the request - this one wouldn't by any chance have happened to have appeared to King Midas in the past?) and actually turning it to the character's advantage. I'd say this also qualifies as playing with a trope, so feel free to add Trope:Play to the keywords).
Sand to gold, rocks to diamonds, blokes to supermodels, not to mention upgrades to their property! What more could they want? :)
There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't...
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
Blank spot in my brain
I haven't yet been able to get my head around the concept of tropes. Looking up the definition I find it is a rhetorical figure of speech consisting of a play on words. Types listed are allegory, antanaclasis, irony, metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche (yes I can read Wicki too).
While I understand (more or less) what each of these is, I don't get how they are applied. I mean in what way is this story a trope? It's like describing the shape of porridge, there doesn't seem to be a fixed definition.
Modern Application
The best place to look to pick up the meaning being used here is a site called "TV tropes," wherein they cover the most overused stereotypes and so on of television and books.
Typically a funny name is attached to it, hence the correlation with the uses you have listed above.
TV Tropes And Idioms
Melanie E.
Tropes
There's a couple of definitions and links to examples of trope play here. In the case of Marigold, it's applicable to the plot as a whole - normally, genies with over-literal interpretations of wishes cause a life of misery for the unfortunate who made the wish, and the glove-wearer certainly thought it would be... until he met the right person at the right time, and discovered that his wish could lead to a life of luxury.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't...
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
It appears to me, that to
It appears to me, that to Trope-ists everything is a Trope. Once someone does something it is a Trope.
What a setting!
A magic genie on a trope-ical island.
Janet
Mistress of the Guild of Evil [Strawberry] Blonde Proofreaders
To be or not to be... ask Schrodinger's cat.
Janet
Mistress of the Guild of Evil [Strawberry] Blonde Proofreaders
To be or not to be... ask Schrodinger's cat.
Great use of 1337 words
Loved every single 1337 words, about my concentration span early in the morning.
Kerry
a dream come true
I wish I could meet this man. I have been years changing. Now to find I can't finish. Only to die as I am...Ladybecky1... Please don't use this as a story.
=D
The girl inside takes a challenge... ...hands on! :)
This gives an entirely new meaning
to 'taking the gloves off!"
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Great story!
Healing through the laying on of hands. :-)
Different
Why parts? Having said that, He would have a lot of willing servants.
Why not?
In a sense a part is its own whole. At what point would you consider an arm or a hand as a whole thing in its own right rather than a part of a body? At what point is a person a whole thing rather than a part of a community? It's all down to point of view, and magic has no respect for logic.
Plus and minus
I liked the story. Loved the premise.
Here is where I am crude.
If you can't play with yourself any more,
its nice finding those who can.
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He can still jerk himself off, as long as he keeps his gloves on. :D
Jerk...
Many years ago, I was in some woodland in Southern England, where I found, under a hododendron bush, a collection of gentelman's art magazines. Lying on top of the porn was one, single, right-handed Marigold glove. Oh dear. To complete the scene, growing next to the stack was the only one of these I have ever seen in the UK:
http://www.biosurvey.ou.edu/okwild/misc/images/dogstinkhorn.jpg
The dog stinkhorn, also known as dog's dick fungus.
Oh,
does it have a rigid definition?
I cannot resist indulging in crude humor, I'm afraid.
My gender identity has "boy" in it, after all...
Bringing down the Evil Empire
If I had the power of touch to turn pebbles into diamonds…I would flood the diamond market until I brought down De Beers.
But without De Wines and De Whiskeys
wouldn't a lot of people feel left out?
Melanie E.
White Dwarfs, Diamonds...and De Beers
White Dwarfs, Diamonds…and De Beers
astro.hopkinsschools.org/course_documents/the_sun/sun_lifecycle/diamonds/diamonds.htm