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Arthur was studying the puzzle page of his newspaper and trying to work out the answer to the word of the day, “it’s a single-pointed shape formed by rotating a right triangle 360° with the altitude as the axis”, he said, “and it’s four letters beginning with C, any ideas guys?”

His baffled mates came up with various suggestions from cane to chin and cosh to coil; “can’t” said Arthur, “as in I can’t imagine what it could be, let’s change the subject”.

”Connie from the confectioners was conned out of a considerable amount of cash” said Ted, “actually that’s not true, but I quite like a little alliteraton now and again, it clears the brain like an unblocked drain, as does rhyme some of the time”. 

The horse chestnut tree’s in flower, there’ll be a good crop of conkers this year” said George, looking out of the window, “we should think about having a conkers match again, Bill won it last time and got crowned William the Conkerer!” – “OY” yelled Lanlord Len, “I banned conkers from my pub after I got a black last time”.

Colin had hardly said a word all session, he’d been studying the dessert menu and something he saw set him off – “ice cream makers learn their trade in sundae school”, he said, “Dracula’s favorite ice cream flavour’s Vein-illa, a deer’s favourite is cookie doe, no-one believed the ice cream cone, it was always waffling ….”, “a bit like you Colin!” laughed Babs! 

“Got it!” yelled Suzie from the next table, “the answer to Arthur’s puzzle, it’s c-o-n-e, cone, those things you fill with ice cream” – “cone-gratulations” said Colin!

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Thanks to Denise at GirlieOnTheEdge for hosting Six Sentence Stories. This week’s given word is Cone. 

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26 thoughts on “Six!

  1. Sadje's avatar Sadje July 11, 2024 / 15:54

    At last they found the answer. 🥳

  2. Suzette Benjamin's avatar Suzette Benjamin July 11, 2024 / 17:14

    Thank you Keith for cone-necting the dots for us on this one. Good to know that Arthur got scoop and did not waffle!

      • Suzette Benjamin's avatar Suzette Benjamin July 11, 2024 / 17:45

        Oh nooo, not at all. You are the master for sure, Keith.

  3. beth's avatar beth July 11, 2024 / 19:29

    Conerrific!

  4. alohagmb13's avatar alohagmb13 July 11, 2024 / 21:09

    Although I haven’t posted yet this week, your post was too good not to leave a comment. Loved this: ice cream makers learn their trade in sundae school. And William the Konkerer too!

  5. messymimi's meanderings's avatar messymimi's meanderings July 12, 2024 / 00:40

    I’m glad they found the answer, it would have made me batty, thinking about it. Thanks again for a fun and funny visit to your Baaamy Inn!”

  6. Chris Hall's avatar Chris Hall July 12, 2024 / 15:06

    Brilliant, Keith! (yum)

  7. clark's avatar clark July 12, 2024 / 18:21

    With such diverse and obscure word play, perhaps, Cone-anne the Wonkerer?

  8. Belladonna's avatar Belladonna July 13, 2024 / 16:44

    And finally they got it! LOL

  9. Misky's avatar Misky July 15, 2024 / 09:11

    You are without doubt the funniest man in England, assuming that Billy Connolly hasn’t deserted Scotland.

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