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8:21

Weekly Challenge #1041 – Classic

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2026/04/05

LizzieRichard Tom Serendipidy Planet Z The next topic is Chip RICHARD Might as well jump So, my mate John from the tribute band, Fan Halen, was feeling the show needed jazzing up a bit. It needed more energy, more of a rock n roll vibe. He asked me for some tips. I mulled a few ideas around in my mind, eventually suggesting that maybe he should give the classic stage dive a shot. We decided he should try it at the next gig. All was going well, right up until that moment. John is the only guy I

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1:43

The race to the bottom

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2026/04/04

Art critics are racists. Take two neo-expressionist artists: Cy Tombly and Jean Basquiat. Both made rudimentary art, scribbles and scrawled words. They described Twombly as brilliant, sublime, and amazing. Praising garbage. And they described Basquiat as chaotic, primitive, untrained, and child-like. A graffiti-spraying amateur. Which, to be fair, he was. A homeless drug addict scraped off the sidewalk by Andy Warhol, caged up in a basement, and pumping out art for the dealer upstairs to

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1:20

Disappear

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2026/04/03

My parents are dead. My father’s brother, my gay uncle, had no children. And before that, the name was what some clerk wrote down. At the immigration desk in the port of San Francisco. When my great-grandfather said Zigmund. And he heard Simon. So, nobody in the old country. Not that any would have survived what happened there. I have no children. My brother does. He has a daughter. But she will take on the name of whatever husband or wife she takes. Her children will have their name. And my

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1:02

Small town walk

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2026/04/02

It’s a small town, and the grocery store, pharmacy, and a few restaurants are about seven minutes walk. So, unless I’ve got a lot of groceries to pick up, I like to walk. I mean, I walk two or three times a day for exercise and it’s working. The other night, I walked to the pharmacy to pick something up and they had already closed early. And I laughed. I hadn’t run out of pills yet, so I could wait till tomorrow, and I enjoyed the walk there, and I enjoyed the walk back, and I’ll walk there again

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1:08

Robot hot dog vendors

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2026/04/02

A lot of people have opinions on the robot umpires, but I’m looking forward to robot hot dog vendors. Because I don’t want to wait for that shouting guy to walk around with the hot dogs. Nor do I want to get up and go get a hot dog. I know I can order a hot dog and have it delivered to me, but that guy often has a bunch of orders in his route and ends up taking as long as the shoutong guy walking around. Just put a cannon on the roof, aim it, and I’ll catch it.

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1:29

Render unto Ralph

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2026/04/01

Jesus may have said to render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s, but when it came to his next-door neighbor Ralph, he said screw that creep. Ralph was always dumping his lawn clippings over the fence on to Jesus’ yard. And he parked his chariot in a way that blocked Jesus’ driveway. He once caught Ralph with his mail, and Ralph said he was just coming over to hand it to Jesus. Yeah, right. Jesus never believed that Judas betrayed him. He thought it was Ralph. Judas confessed, but

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1:11

It’s a von trapp

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2026/03/31

I was sitting by a stream when an old man carrying a worn out map, walked up to the stream, crossed it, and made a mark on his map. I’ve done it, he shouted. I finally done it. I got up and walked to the stream edge and asked him done what I’ve climbed every mountain and forwarded every stream, he said. I did everything that singing bitch told me to do, and I finally done it. He showed me the map, and sure enough, every mountain and stream had been marked with ink. Congratulations, I said. And we

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11:47

Weekly Challenge #1040 – PICK TWO Cover band, Slow...

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2026/03/30

Lewie Lizzie Richard Tom Serendipidy Norval Joe Planet Z The next topic is Classic LEWIE As the tour guide brought the group through a museum, a cheesy cover band was in one room playing ambient music of slicing, shredding, and melting cheese on a grill, another member was stretching mozzarella, while another was intensely focused curing a wheel of cheddar. The exhibit itself was full of various sculptures of hats, swords, animals, flowers, and more. They were colorful and seemed to wave in the

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1:26

It spreads

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2026/03/28

I guess it isn’t working out so well.Protestors without masks. People coming across the border for health care. Kids being kids. Fingerpointing. Blame. Fools in stores refusing to wear masks. Beaches. Parks. Going out when we don’t have to. (You know, like my third grocery run of the week.) Or when we’re sick. I see the neighbors doing laundry without masks. Or going to their cars or walking their dogs. Dumbasses. Not washing our hands. We’re fat. We’re

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1:27

The package never boils

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2026/03/27

Two months ago, they launched a new series of video cards. But they didn’t make enough of them, so they were impossible to get. Unless you went through a scalper on eBay, of course. And they were damned expensive. For the past two months, barely any of the cards get to the stores. Scalpers keep snapping them up. But, thankfully, the prices are coming down. I did the math, and finally ordered one. I bookmarked the shipping tracker. It’s up in a browser tab. Every five minutes, I hit

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1:14

The cold dead heart

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2026/03/26

I got a letter from Greenpeace the other day. Your classic Save The Whales plea. When I think whales, I think the killer whale Shamoo at Sea World. Leaping from the water for fish. I also remember a whale watching boat off the coast of Cape Cod. A blinding storm with the waves tossing the boat around. Throwing up over the side until I could only dry heave and scream myself hoarse. I shred the letter and go online. Searching for defense funds of Japanese and Norwegian “marine research’ boats. Kill

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1:32

Run its course

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2026/03/25

I used to be pretty good at frisbee golf. I had a strong throw and pretty good accuracy. I practiced throwing at trees and trash cans at various distances. And I played the campus course nearly every day. After I graduated, I played the course a few times, but I eventually hung up the disks. Years later, I moved into a small town with a half-abandoned golf course. The community converted it into a nature walk and preserve. And set up frisbee golf cages. I got a new disk, went to the course, and

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1:10

Job posting

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2026/03/24

Freddy saw a job posting, and he sent his resume and cover letter. Two days later, they wrote him back saying that they went with another candidate. Then, a month later, the job posting appeared again. He adjusted his cover letter slightly, telling them that they wouldn’t have had to repost the job if they had hired him. He was ready to drag and drop it to the form, but decided to go with his original cover letter. Two days later, they went with another candidate. When the job posting appeared

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1:18

Light it up

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2026/03/24

Henderson liked to go for walks and smoke cigars after dinner.But that was kinda hard, being an astronaut on the space station. So, he ate his steak paste, strapped himself to the treadmill, and walked for a while. He wasn’t allowed to light a cigar, but he snuck one out of his coveralls and put it in his mouth unlit. When he finally got back down to Earth, the first thing he did was have a real steak. Then he went for a walk, lit his cigar, and coughed until he dropped it. And lit the

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11:55

Weekly Challenge #1039 – Bubble Wrap

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2026/03/22

LewieLisa Lizzie Richard Tom Serendipidy Norval Joe Planet Z The next topic is PICK TWO Cover band Slow down Empty streets Sculpture gallery Shred LISA A stressful Job John was stressed at work. He’d tried meditating, herbal tea and cutting his hours. He left the office altogether wondering if the commute was a factor and worked from home. All to no avail. His blood pressure was sky high and his family were worried so they ordered some executive, very expensive and delicate stress relief toys

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1:17

Cart

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2026/03/21

The shabby overcoat, boots, and dirty hat pushing the shopping cart full of junk around is Gertrude. But don’t bother calling her that. She’s stone deaf, and even if you stop her and write things down, she’ll just ignore you and keep going. Touch her or her cart, and she’ll beat you with an umbrella. Which she never uses when it rains. She goes from dumpster to dumpster, looking for things, throwing other things out. Some say she used to have a cat in that cart. Maybe she

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1:20

We come in REDACTED

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2026/03/20

It’s been a year since the aliens arrived, and everything is so much better. They brought all sorts of technology and medicine and other things, and aside from a few minor resistance incidents, the world is pretty much at peace. Although, one of the strange things in the treaty that humanity signed was a non-disclosure agreement. We can’t tell others about our special, intergalactic friends, or even communicate outside of our society. Earth is pretty much on its own now. Not that we mind. Everything

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1:55

The signal

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2026/03/20

The satellite just kind of drifted around Earth doing its job, picking up weather signals.One night, it caught something weird, like a low humming noise. Not a radio, not anything normal. It sounded almost like the ocean was singing, which didn’t make much sense from space. It kept listening, saving the signal. It wasn’t perfect, kind of broken and fuzzy. Later, it sent the sound back down. Most systems ignored it, but one analyzed the signal and found… something. For a second, everything

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1:25

Soma

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2026/03/19

Years ago, our town voted to Fluoridate the water.Now, we’re being asked to vote on Somadate the water. Scientists say Soma is safe. Just as safe as Fluoride. But instead of strengthening our teeth and reducing dental issues like Fluoride does, Soma will make us calmer and happier. It will reduce conflict and violence. The proposal shows charts and graphs from test studies and other cities. Crime rates are down. Suicide rates are down. People are much better and more productive. And more

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1:21

The overpasses

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2026/03/18

There are fences and cameras watching the overpasses.Because people throw things over the side on to the traffic below. There were a few wrecks. People got hurt. People got killed. So, the city added the fences and cameras. In spite of this, some people still throw things over the side. It’s not as easy, with the fences. But they still do. Cops park there now, taking their coffee breaks on the overpasses. But when the cops leave, it doesn’t take long for someone to throw something over

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