This picture has been provided by the Dale-ectable Dale Rogerson. She was pretty popular last week on someone’s blog (what’s so funny about that, I wonder?) and she just popped up again.
Must be those Youtubes are paying off finally.
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“So … Dale brought these to you, huh?”
“Yeah. Usually it’s a pasta dish of hers.”
“Food, now flowers. She likes you, Bill, I can tell.”
“Either way, I’ll send her a nice note. But, flowers? I don’t get it.”
Bill promptly typed an e-mail.
“Dearest Dale,
Thanks for the lovely flowers. Such a sweet gesture, as always. I was expecting one of your delicious pasta dishes, but these were great. Russell thought so, too. We ate them fast!
Yours, WMQ.”
TWO DAYS LATER —-
“Nothing from Dale?”
“Only a bag of filberts and a note that says, ‘Nuts to you.’ “
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wmqcolby 
Hahaha! Bill is utterly clueless. Thanks for the chuckle, WMQ.
Thanks, Varad.
You’re flirting. I swear you’re flirting, William
I don’t “write and tell.”
Wait a minute …
ha ha ha!
I’m surprised she sent you the nuts after that, I wouldn’t expect anything else.
Well, as to the “Dale” of the story, she knows a guy’s memory has to be jogged every now and then. In this case, it got pushed off a cliff!
Hahaha. Our Dale always has the perfect answer. That was fun, William-Kent.
It wrote itself, really. That’s probably why I’m first in line here. Part of the fun of FF is including our favorite people in the story just to entertain ourselves and others.
Thanks, Gab. 🙂
Favourite people, eh? Aww shucks…
I wondered how come you were first out of the gate.
Well, that, plus I woke up really early with a sore throat and unable to breathe. Either I have a cold or allergy season has hit early and hard. Amazing what one can write when oxygen deprived. 😀
Dear Cuzzin Kent,
Hilarious. Bill’s not the brightest crayon in the box is he? And Russell…never mind.
Five out of five nasturtiums with Italian dressing.
Shalom,
Cuzzin Shelley
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Great response!
Like you always say, “It’s GOOD to be the Queen.” 😀
Noblesse Oblige Friday Fictioneers style. You may kiss my ring. 😀
You kill me… Both of you!
Hey, I resemble that remark.
Do you deny it?
I hope Bill enjoyed his flowers. And remembered to put the filberts in a pretty vase as well. 🙂
HAHAHAHA! And another great response. Thanks, Sandra.
I think Russell has been channeled this week.
I sense an episode of the Galloping Gourmet was involved. Excellent and hilarious work…and a great job on utilizing the power of the fakeout song lyric!
Thanks, Miles!
Nuts!! really! Hhahaha
Indeed!
When she read that Bill & Russ had chowed down the flowers she sent, she gave up on the old goats.
She’d just got home from mailing the symolic bag of nuts when her doorbell rang and the most gorgeous francophone she’d ever seen was saying, “Bonjour ma belle. H’m Andre an h’I’m ere to h’inspect de dommage by de flooding h’in your ouse.”
And she said, “Entre, Andre. Who needs Bill?” 😚
Hahahaha! Probably right!
A Quebecoise fleuriste would say, “Maybe you should sen’ er han hapology. She might ‘ate it that you were heating ‘er flowers. 😉
By the way, I repent in sackcloth and ashes for my cell-phone induced typos. It’s symbolic and “Entrez, André.”
Oh Chrisine! You have me on the floor laughing my butt off!
That was hilarious (and so à propos… did I tell you how yummy that floor guy was? I just sat on my couch and “rinsed my eyes” as they say en français!)
Now, I know how to spell apropos! Didn’t know there was a spelling.
Well….à propos…. not apropos 😉
It was in the Oxford Dictionary where I found it. And it DID have the proper spelling from the French notated. Still, it’s a word I never use and never had to write.
Ahhh…
It took m e a bit to get my bearings when a Quebecoise asked me, on one of first trips to Quebec, “What did you hate for dinner?” 🙂
Buahahahahah! Tell me about it… putting “h’s” where there shouldn’t be and not pronouncing them were they should! Plus the wrong tense of verb…
You watch Hellen on TV but you visite your friend Élène…
I enjoyed this. There were so many possibilities with the flowers. My flash has a Bill too.
xx Rowena
Oh, well, let’s go see it! Maybe these guys are related. 😀
Thanks for stopping by, Rowena! 🙂
You’re the cheeky one! No wonder she’s sending you nuts now. Nice bit of fun there Kent 🙂
I enjoyed every minute of it, Lynn. Every minute of it.
Thanks so much. 🙂
I was so busy commenting on others’ comments, I almost forgot to leave my own…
Oh Lawzy, Kent… You kill me… And I agree with Neil, you are such a flirt.
However did I become so popular. Two weeks in a row!
Me? A flirt? It is a result of going with the flow, sticking to the motion of the ocean … and it doesn’t hurt being the cousin of the Queen, either (who’s probably thinks, “Don’t drag ME into this, you idiot! I have spoken. All depart!”).
I’ll make it three weeks if you like. We’ll get you that Best Supporting Actress Award yet!
Ha ha ha ha!!! Yeah, you!
And that she will..
Funny man…
Oh, Dale, Dale, Dale, Dale … poor WMQ suffers SO much for my art. 😀
Poor baby…
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I’ve just got the biggest grin on my face right now.
Thanks Kent..and all the rest of you! lol
Glad to have put it on you, Dawn. This party needs a little starting.
Hands in the Ayer!
AAAAUUUUGGGGHHH! Don’t say THAT!
LOL
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I guess you have to be American to know what filberts are! Cute story.
I’m not sure. They are nuts, of course. Filberts have a white meat inside with a rounded, acorn-like shell outside. They’re pretty good.
You’re right, Liz. We never call them filberts. I looked the word up in my Nelson-Gage Canadian English Dictionary and there’s no listing. They’re hazel nuts.north of the 49th.
Oh, they ARE hazel nuts! Well, who’d a-thunk it? Thanks, Christine! 🙂
Hahaha! That was so funny. Thank you for the fun story!
Thanks, Fluid!
good giggler!
Thank-you, Jell. Always nice to know the target got hit. 🙂
Haha! Nice story.
Thanks, Penny!
Somehow I feel the need to floss! A very fun story, bringing in many “famous” actors and actresses from the FF pool.
Well, get the floss and the Ultrabrite ready. You could be next, Alicia! 😉
Another enjoyable and twisted story. I can’t wait to see what Dale sends next.
Hopefully something more edible for Bill. 😀
How delightful to start this week’s reading with a funny story 🙂
It was based on my great aunt and uncle. They used to do this to each other a lot! 😀 They were real characters. She was the one who sent him the filberts with the note.
They must have been a lot of fun.
Oh, they were. She lived in Bend, Oregon and he lived in Chicago and they always sent each other funny birthday cards. My grandma, their sister, was, if I remember right, the youngest in the bunch and she never did anything funny. She was a very sweet lady, of course.
ROFL 😀 Thanks for making my day 🙂 Dale should send Bill a bill for the flowers and the pasta for being you-know-what 🙂
My great aunt and great uncle used to pull pranks on each other like that al the time. This was one of them, or based on one of them. As for Bill, no, he’s just having fun as was Dale.
How lovely of them 🙂 I was having fun too 😀
Thank you for starting my trawl through the posts with a laugh! Delightful.
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Thanks, Keith! Glad I set the tone for you. 😉
Dear Kent,
How did you get to be the first link in the Hollywood Squares? Did you pay the Queen off in face-paint? I do love pasta and I bet Dale is a great cook. Flowers are pretty, but the stems get between my teeth and they leave a horrible aftertaste. Next time, ask for cashews.
Dear Russell,
Yes, Dale is a great cook because she has a Youtube channel where she did some demos of making food. They’re kind of cute, really. She told me I became her Youtube Stalker. 😀 Go check her out. It’s under her name.
And you’re right, cashews are better than flowers. Ever tried filberts? They’re pretty good. Tough to crack, though.
As for the posting, It’s not the first time I have gotten onto the Brady Bunch wall first. I did one other time several years ago. This time, though, I caught a bad cold on Monday and was up all night with it. Usually, she posts around 2:30 AM or 3:00 AM and I wrote the story in just a few minutes, which doesn’t happen often. There’s an other story I took time with that has been posted. Have a look at it.
The Queen is quite allergic to filberts.
Before the days of blissful retirement and sleeping in until past 5, I used to get up at 2:30. Thanks to Madison I learned how to put my stories on autopilot. This might explain why my link appears farther down the line. Sorry to have butted in here…what am I saying? So not sorry.
JDR W(T)F
Why is it the calendar week has in the middle WTF …?
Feeling out of the loop here, and I had to look up the word filbert (delighted to say that I have a hazelnut bush growing on my allotment). Talking of nuts … of the crazy kind of course…
I knew them as filberts, but now they are called hazel nuts. The Queen is deathly allergic to these, so no Nutella for her. I am SO behind the times, I imagine.
Funny, I have to admit that I would prefer Dale’s Italian cooking over flowers any day.
Although, I’d say the way she would make them would be delicious. 😀
Eating the flowers could be living dangerously, and not just because some are toxic.
I remember in college Chinese student drinking tee from rose petals or something. They knew more about it than we did at the time. It was pretty good.
Very funny!
I giggled all the way, from start to finish!
Thought you might like it, Sabina. And I’m happy you did.
Dale wants Bill to be healthy and possess a good memory.. hence the nuts. 🙂 (nuts are supposed to boost memory. so children consume them)
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I’m sure you’re right on that, Kalpana. Maybe he’s just a little too “milky in the filbert” (crazy).
I liked your story, too. Sometimes it’s hard for the healer to heal as well as the one getting healed. Nice job!
As the quote goes “An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup”. Though flowers au naturale will do too. Five out of five cauliflowers for this one.
Haha! Good quote, Sub. Thanks for the cauliflowers. 🙂
Your story was inspired, too, all the way to the epilogue. I comment here because blogspot won’t let me … ingrates! Was waiting for captcha to do its thing, it never did. 😦
Dang! This is truely a “it’s not you, it’s me” moment then 😉
Hahaha! Well, as the Queen usually tells me a lot of times, “There is that.” 😀
Tee hee. 🙂
Thanks, Lily! 🙂
A fragrant tale, Bill, which made me chuckle all the way through my bowl of pasta. Ty. Ty.
You’re welcome, you’re MOST welcome, Kelvin. Something lighter than what I also wrote this week.
Loved this. My first read and left me laughing. Thank you for that!
Well, mucho apreciado, Sascha! Glad I could set the tone for a good (hopefully good, anyway) day of reading for you. 🙂
This had me laughing early on a Sunday morning, always good. And who knew Dale was a you tube cook? Will check that out too. 🙂
Well, thanks, Fatima.
Yes! She is. Just put her name, Dale Rogerson, in and there she’ll be.
Enjoyed reading all the comments in order to catch up… you certainly entertained a lot of people this week. Thought you may like this, just to add a finishing touch…https://www.funnyhowflowersdothat.co.uk/food-and-flowers-milan%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98poet-florist%E2%80%99
Take care
Dee
Wow! Well, what do you know? That’s pretty cool, Dee. To me, that is the epitome of what I think of Italy, that approach with the flowers. I have never been there but I would like to go someday. All the best to you, Dee! 🙂
Hehehehe
This was silly
Glad you thought so. 😉