Ludicrous Stinkin’ Bottom-fill: A call for help!
The Large Smelly Boys hit the road again, this time with technological diversion.
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Someone told us in all seriousness (hard to believe, we know) that word games are good for Large Smelly Boys and their ilk. We know all about ilk. We go through gallons (many plurals) of it every week.
So as a little surprise for the Large Smelly Boys and their many gallons of ilk, we have a new word game. Tired of them yet? Sorry if you are, but the truth is we need another cargo hold game. We’ll be on the road again tomorrow.
We’ll be the Scatter/Condiment Family Plus One. No, the Plus One won’t be an Extra Large Smelly Boy, part of our warped parenting mentality to keep the peace in the backseat. It’ll be a Doting Aunt who’s a veteran at traveling with us: Her iPod is always just an earbud away.
We’ll also have a new weapon this time: A working car stereo system. Ours conked out years ago, and I told Mr. Scatter that I wasn’t going one more mile with the bickering boys without an audio salve. We made sure to squeeze in a trip to the cartoy store last week between pickle preparations. Audio books are da bomb! We’re finally making our way through Lloyd Alexander’s Prydain Chronicles.
But before we click on the dial, cue up the cargo hold game …
Oh, but wait! The game has a new twist this time. I’ve written only the top of the post. I need help with the bottom-fill.
Could you please? We need words that start with … LSB!
Lucky Sons a Britches
Luxurious Slimy Bananas
Laughing Silly Belches
Get the picture? C’mon and surprise the Large Smelly Boys. Provide some bottom-fill.
– Laura Grimes, without the LSBs
August 28th, 2009 at 10:59 am
Love Silent Boys
Doting Aunt
August 28th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Plenty of talk about smell o vision, I have yet to experience. I believe this could be a good thing! As for Doting Aunt? Earbuds, my dear, are not enough, I highly recommend noise canceling headphones…dreamy……
August 28th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Agh! A victim of a typo. It’s Hol, not Ho
August 28th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
I’m not sure I can tactfully reply to that Ho/Hol. My husband says we’re really expanding our readership. I asked for bottom-fill. That’s not what I meant, however.
August 29th, 2009 at 6:29 am
Less Seen, Better
Loud Sounds Blaring
Little Snack Burpers
Lefties Seem Better
Lovely Singing, Boys
Licorice Smells Blatant
Let’s Stop Bellyaching
August 30th, 2009 at 8:41 am
“Louder!” said Beethoven.
“Lift!” shouted Balanchine.
“Largo,” suggested Berlioz.
August 30th, 2009 at 9:00 am
Lloyd’s Superior Books.
(I loved the Prydain series as a kid and read them several times to my young sons, who read them many more times to themselves, as soon as they were able.)
August 30th, 2009 at 10:35 am
We have an Older Educated Daughter (OED), who loved the Prydain series. She read all the books, and then picked them as a family read-aloud. I’ve been trying to entice the LSBs with them for a while. I propped them prominently on their bookshelves and carried on about “crunchings and munchings.” I finally read out loud “The Foundling,” which is a short, curious assortment of stories — some are backstories, some are from the cutting-room floor, some take odd right-turns and have weird endings. But it was a good spark. Then when I spied the audio versions for Books 2-5 recently at the library, I scooped them all up and put the first one on hold. It arrived the morning of our departure, just in time to pop it in and hit the road!
August 30th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
For MTC: Luciano Sings Better
For Two LSB’s: Louie Louie Sounds Sounds Binary Binary
For the beach: Little Smelly Barnacles
For lunch: Long Sourdough Baguette