Kiley skipped all the other tedious levels of Buddhism and reached nirvana straight after she managed to perfectly align several images in a Microsoft Word document.
It was the great leveller; no seats meant parents and their kids had to all sit cross-legged on the floor. It took the adults back to their own childhoods and the kids a glimpse into adulthood, with the difficulty all the oldies had getting down and back up.
The first lesson tightrope teacher Tilly Transon taught her class was that the rope needed to be taut. Being an inanimate object, the rope could not be taught to be taut all by itself.
The Annual Graffiti Awards had to pause proceedings just after the ‘Best Bubble Tag’ award, as the police, according to the bootleg scanner, were closing in.
In terms of striking coolness and intimidation, a leather jacket was up there with the best. Toss on some leather pants, and it dialled down a touch. Yet the addition of a leather newsboy hat stripped any semblance of sexy away.
For his final meal before the electric chair, Augustus Golp requested a giant gobstopper as part of his dessert. The execution was delayed for seven days, which was enough time for new evidence to come to light for his appeal.
The potato farmer cut out the middleman and delivered fresh produce to people’s doors via his brand new potato cannon.
Trayton had always thought purple was considered a regal colour, but when he tried to get into a pub after the races in his purple suit, half-cut and slurring, they wouldn’t have a bar of him.
Darnel was stumped. If he didn’t show his Dad the meme, he’d feel left out, but if he did show him he’d have to (yet again) explain what a meme was.
Much to the group’s surprise, slow and steady Rosie blitzed the field when they went go-karting. Order was restored when she was pulled over on the way home for driving too slowly.
The seagulls, in the form of white-collar workers, circled the leftover catering plates in the kitchenette, seeing and sniffing. One brave soul reached out and snagged a piece of rockmelon, which gave courage to the rest of the group, and sparked a feeding frenzy.
Yasmine longed for the days of her pregnancies and young children again. Not the dirty nappies, chaffed nipples or spine-tingling screams, but rather the way she could use her pregnant belly or the pram to part crowds with ease.
Interest in D.I.Y projects exploded after human cloning took off.
In the world according to accordionists, music was truly the main accord.
If she squinted, really hard, Teresa’s red party cup morphed into a grand goblet full of wine poached from the cellars of a conquered keep.
Denise ceased her lease when she found mould growing on top of black mould.