Tag: #Ragtag Daily Prompt

But Who Invented This?

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I found out that this watchamacallit is actually a locking device. I wonder if it was named after Sir Joshua Device? On the other hand, it’s a handy gadget so maybe it was invented by Sir Humphrey Gadget? Other contenders could be Pietr Gizmo from Russia, or Ella Reader Widget – an American as was Cyrus T. Doodat. Germans have been known to invent strange little contraptions of which nobody remembers their names and are just called thingies or Dingsbums, so Hans-Joachim Dingsbums might be an option as the originator.

Ragtag Daily Prompt: Whatchamacallit

PS: Except for HaJo Dingsbums all names come from Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman.

Sea of Traffic

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The transportation grid operating on an infinite number of levels crashed to the lowest level because of a feasibility overload. Cars which were normally flying on an infinite number of levels while maintaining their same functionality suddenly had to watch their bumpers. It was turmoil!

Ragtag Daily Prompt: Turmoil

The Voice of the Garden

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The word hum is related to the Middle High German hummen and thus to the modern German Hummel – meaning bumble bee. Fun fact: While bees need at least 10 °C to be out and about bumble bee workers fly already at 6 °C because the vibration of their pectoral muscles vibrate to generate heat. Which in turn makes the fairly loud humming noise of bumble bees.

Ragtag Daily Prompt: Hum