Mar 26, 2012

Magpie Tales#110

This week Tess at Willow Manor gives us something to reflect upon


Don't Try This at Home if You're a Scaredypants.

You all can pass through mirrors.  Yes. You. CAN!
With patience, faith and practise, and a plan.
Start with your tallest. Hand-mirrors are a squeeze,
but the long one in your wardrobe is a breeze!
Take a good look to make sure that is you.
Now then - I'm gonna tell you what to do.
"Refractive Index" is the magic word
(Don't quibble 'That is TWO.' Don't be absurd.)
Repeat three times.  Oh, something I forgot.
Your clothes get in the way. Discard the lot.
Now!  Flex your muscles and prepare to dive
into the glassy pool. You will survive.
The mirror sees you coming and liquefies.
(The scaredypants might choose to close their eyes)
There now!  You're through!  Easy-peasy was it not?
Oh drat!  There's something else that I forgot!
Forgot to say, "Unlock your wardrobe door
before you . . . .

I don't know, I really don't!  You came here to read another dumb Magpie and you end up starkers inside a locked wardrobe, tangled up in last season's dresses and/or suits and pongin' of mothballs. Some people. Really!

29 comments:

  1. This is so much fun, so refreshing, so YOU!

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  2. You bastard! I did what you said and all I have to show for it is a lump and seven years bad luck!

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    1. HAHAHA! Gotcha, Stafford. And I dare say you won't be the last. (BTW . . thanks for the attribution on your Mag this week Sure I noticed)

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    2. Stafford, I'd bet even money you forgot to chant the magic formula "Refractive Index" as you tried to step through...It would make all the difference, I'm sure...

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    3. Hot damn! Apologies to any folk who suffered as Stafford did. When I checked my Boys Book of Magic I found you are supposed to repeat the magic words FOUR times, not three.

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  3. I actually tried it - it works! :-)

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    1. You mean you commented from inside a locked wardrobe?

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  4. Think I'm gonna fall for that one, do you? Think again! Ha ha!

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  5. I found a flaw in your method, Doc. My long mirror is on the inside of my wardrobe door, so after climbing in the cupboard in order to pass out through the glass, it was too dark for me to see where I was going...
    I must try taking a torch in with me next time...

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    1. Penelope . . you could lock yourself IN and use my method to get OUT, why not? You'd be breaking fresh ground in the development of "Through the Looking Glass" warp travel.

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    2. Indeed, that was what I was hoping for...I discovered that without some kind soul to lock me in, as I pushed to step through the glass, the door swung open. and I ended in a crumpled heap on the bedroom floor. Now I realise, I need not only a torch, but an accomplice to do the locking in bit. Alice didn't have any of these problems...

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  6. damn-now where was I going? Clever clever you!
    Thanks for turning off that annoying word verification!

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  7. Ha..ha...your post is so funny. Thanks for sharing the smiles ~

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  8. fn indeed....nicely done and thanks for this

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  9. haha, this was so funny, loved reading it :)

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  10. ok I followed the directions now the reverse is...
    :)

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    1. MoondustWriter . . you mean it actually works!!

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  11. Ha! Well if you think I’m going to fall for that old trick you’re very much mistaken!

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  12. Aww . . give it a shot. You could find Berowne in there.

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  13. Tempting..........................

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  14. Hilarious Dr! Very much akin to Fox's 'Back to the future' episode!

    Hank

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  15. Is there a shrinking potion on the other side, so we can fit last year's dresses?

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  16. The mirror sees you coming and liquefies. = Hilarious!
    I love this and read it a second time out loud to my cat. We are having a horrid windstorm here and I wanted you to know that if any of our large trees falls on the house tonight I will have died amused. :)

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    1. Aww . . that's sooooo kind. I want you to know that if a large tree falls on me, I shall now die happy.

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  17. Ohhh... Left on a cliffhanger. Drat!
    RYN: I was trying to say JagWAH and couldn't figure out how to make the WAH sound....haha...thanks ;)

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  18. ...after six kids I don't go ANYWHERE near mirrors naked :)

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  19. You nearly had me - fortunately vainity prevents me from going the Full Monty in front of a full length mirror nowadays!

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