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The regulars at The Baaamy Inn were somewhat quieter than usual, probably something to do with the excessive alcohol consumption of the night before when Landlord Len hosted his famous New Year celebration; Arthur had his head in his hands, and George appeared to be asleep!
“We should all make some New Year resolutions”, said Babs, clearly echoing the thoughts of several others as they nodded in agreement, “I’m going to exercise more, save money, and give my liver a rest by going without alcohol during January even though this Coke tastes horrible”; “what a good idea” said Ken, “I’m going to keep fit by walking to and from the pub, save money by not using the taxi, and give liver a rest by giving up pate!”
“We are going on holiday next month“, shouted Natalie over at the knitting circle, her shrill voice echoing around the bar causing cosiderable discomfort to those still suffering hangovers including Suzie at the next table who stuck her fingers in her ears, “we are flying away to somewhere warm”, she said; “last time I was on an aeroplane, someone shouted hijack”, said Polly, “everyone was terrified until a guy at the back shouted Hi John!”
Henpecked Henry from the chicken farm was telling the others about the Christmas present he had from his son Harry, “it’s a thing the size of a tin of beans and it’s called an Amazonian Echo or something like that, it plays music, tells me the time and even farts if I ask it to, it’s lovely having a woman in the house that does as I ask and never tells me what to do!”
Having a hangover wasn’t going to stop Colin telling a joke or two – “my joke about an echo keeps repeating itself – my daughter yelled, ‘Dad, you haven’t listened to a word I said, I thought that was an odd way to start a conversation – I shout out to people wondering what the opposite of in is – the janitor jumped out of the closset and shouted ‘supplies!’ – a swimmer shouted ‘help, shark, help’, I just laughed, I knew the shark wasn’t going to help him – English speakers shout ‘yes’ when excited, Spanish speakers shout sí, French speakers sound like they’re coming down a slide…..”
The Inn’s beer cellar down beneath the bar is very echoey, and whenever Len goes down to change a barrel he always shouts ‘hello’ or ‘hi’, and listens to it echo back; this morning when he went down there he yelled ‘Happy New Year’, and a voice said ‘same to you my darling’ – it was Maggie’s voice.
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Thanks to Denise at GirlieOnTheEdge for hosting Six Sentence Stories. This week’s given word is Echo.
A very good six Keith
Kind of you to say so, Sadje, thank you.
You’re most welcome
Nice one from Colin: “French speakers sound like they’re coming down a slide” when they say “yes”.
I quite like that one too! Thanks, Frank.
Hahahahaha! Thanks for the morning chuckle!
My pleasure!
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Oh wow, just look at that!
Wishing you the same, Sandee!
Look forward to the continuation…
Thanks, Reena, lots more to come!
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“…give my liver a rest by giving up pate”…oh hilarious ones, Keith. And I love the exchange about Alexa and echos.
Nice to see you back at the pub, dear Keith.
Nice to be there! Thanks, Nancy.
Another good six Keith.
Thank you, Di!
A blessed and beautiful 2026 to you and the whole crew of the Baaamy. Much thanks for always keeping us smiling.
They asked me to send you their good wishes too!
I love save the liver by giving up pate resolution ! ))
It makes sense to me!
Welcome to the New Year… it’s like the twenties except not a hundred years ago. lol
Don’t tell anyone, but while this blogosphere may be full of crazy people, for me, it is the only sane/non-toxic place left in the world…
‘cellent final sentence, yo
If I could choose any other time to live, it would be in the 20’s minus 100. Life was so much simpler back then.
As for today, I cannot imagine living without my second life in the blogosphere.
Welcome back, Keith and Happy New Year!
The gang’s having a rough go of it after last night but proforma, are handling themselves in tip top humorous fashion.
# 5, hit my funny bone in just the right spot 😆Your signature 6th sign off, now that, touched my heart.
They are not doing badly considering!
I’m delighted that it had the desired effect.
Happy New Year, Denise.
Excellently done, as usual, Keith. And another lovely end with Maggie’s voice.🌹
Yay! Lovely, as usual, Keith.
I hope you started the new year off on a better foot than this lot! Happy New Year my friend!
Actually, no! I’m suffering from a very heavy cold. I’ll keep smiling though!
Happy New Year, Jodi.
I thought you have been sounding off the last two recordings I have listened to. Feel better!
“French speakers sound like they’re coming down a slide…” THAT made me laugh when I filled in the blank! 😆
Always something going on at The Inn, and I’m glad that Maggie’s always there, too.
I wasn’t sure anyone would get it, but I made myself laugh! Thanks so much, Liz..