Category: Fiction

Song Title Challenge #42: There is a good reason these tables are numbered Honey. You just haven’t thought of it yet. – Panic! At the Disco

It’s time for this week’s Song Title Challenge.

Write a short piece of fiction, around 300 words, using the song title as your story title but don’t listen to the song. You can pick your own genre or use the one suggested to me. Remember to link back to this post so I can find yours.

If you would like to suggest a song title for a future post, you can do so from the challenge page. You can also leave a suggestion on the Facebook page.

The wife seems to have taken a page from bumblepuppies’s book by looking up the strangest song title she could find online. Her suggestion? There is a good reason these tables are numbered Honey. You just haven’t thought of it yet. by Panic! At the Disco (frankly, I think the band’s name would make a much more interesting story). The genre is Crime/Mystery.

There is a good reason these tables are numbered Honey. You just haven’t thought of it yet.

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Song Title Challenge #41: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious – from the film Mary Poppins

It’s time for this week’s Song Title Challenge.

If you would like to suggest a song title for a future post, you can do so from the challenge page. You can also leave a suggestion on the Facebook page.

This week’s song is Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, written by Richard and Robert Sherman for the Disney film, Mary Poppins, where it was performed by Julie Andrews and Dick van Dyke. The genre is Horror/Thriller. It was suggested by bumblepuppies.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

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Song Title Challenge #40: Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict – Pink Floyd

It’s time for this week’s Song Title Challenge.

If you would like to suggest a song title for a future post, you can do so from the challenge page. You can also leave a suggestion on the Facebook page.

This week’s song is Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict by Pink Floyd and the genre is Crime/Mystery. It was suggested by bumblepuppies (whose comments regarding my wife being pregnant should NEVER be taken seriously 😉 )

I did this one a bit differently, seeing as I’m already familiar with the song: A friend of mine wrote a piece on this song on the blog where this challenge got it’s humble beginnings. Please go give hers a read as well when you’re done here.

Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict

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Song Title Challenge #39: Freakishly long song title – Christine Lavin

It’s time for this week’s Song Title Challenge.

Me and my big mouth. A couple of weeks ago I made an innocuous comment to bumblepuppies about longer song titles being more challenging than one-word titles, and he took it as an invitation for the ultimate challenge. Thus he sent me Regretting What I Said to You When You Called Me 11:00 On a Friday Morning to Tell Me that at 1:00 Friday Afternoon You’re Gonna Leave Your Office, Go Downstairs, Hail a Cab to Go Out to the Airport to Catch a Plane to Go Skiing in the Alps for Two Weeks, Not that I Wanted to Go With You, I Wasn’t Able to Leave Town, I’m Not a Very Good Skier, I Couldn’t Expect You to Pay My Way, But After Going Out With You for Three Years I DON’T Like Surprises!! by Christine Lavin.

The full title is actually Regretting What I Said to You When You Called Me 11:00 On a Friday Morning to Tell Me that at 1:00 Friday Afternoon You’re Gonna Leave Your Office, Go Downstairs, Hail a Cab to Go Out to the Airport to Catch a Plane to Go Skiing in the Alps for Two Weeks, Not that I Wanted to Go With You, I Wasn’t Able to Leave Town, I’m Not a Very Good Skier, I Couldn’t Expect You to Pay My Way, But After Going Out With You for Three Years I DON’T Like Surprises!! Subtitled: A Musical Apology and at ninety-seven words is the longest known song title in the English Language. (Apparently there’s a Russian song that tops out at 155 words (English translation 180), but lets just stick with the English song for now.)

Including spaces and punctuation this song title 481 characters long. To put it in perspective for you, you’ll need four tweets just to tweet this song title (explaining the title of today’s post). It’s too long for a google search string (which cuts off everything over thirty-two words) and takes up a third of my total word count for the Song Title Challenge.

In the words of the immortal Barney Stinson, challenge accepted.

To find out how the Song Title Challenge works or to suggest a song title for next week, visit the challenge page now. You can also leave a suggestion on the Facebook page.

bumblepuppies did not include the subtitle in his suggestion (even though it’s actually part of the song title), so I’m just using Regretting What I Said to You When You Called Me 11:00 On a Friday Morning to Tell Me that at 1:00 Friday Afternoon You’re Gonna Leave Your Office, Go Downstairs, Hail a Cab to Go Out to the Airport to Catch a Plane to Go Skiing in the Alps for Two Weeks, Not that I Wanted to Go With You, I Wasn’t Able to Leave Town, I’m Not a Very Good Skier, I Couldn’t Expect You to Pay My Way, But After Going Out With You for Three Years I DON’T Like Surprises!! The genre is Fantasy/Sci-Fi. Here goes nothing.

Regretting What I Said to You When You Called Me 11:00 On a Friday Morning to Tell Me that at 1:00 Friday Afternoon You’re Gonna Leave Your Office, Go Downstairs, Hail a Cab to Go Out to the Airport to Catch a Plane to Go Skiing in the Alps for Two Weeks, Not that I Wanted to Go With You, I Wasn’t Able to Leave Town, I’m Not a Very Good Skier, I Couldn’t Expect You to Pay My Way, But After Going Out With You for Three Years I DON’T Like Surprises!!

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Song Title Challenge #38: Scentless Apprentice – Nirvana

It’s time for this week’s Song Title Challenge.

If you would like to suggest a song title for a future post, you can do so from the challenge page. You can also leave a suggestion on the Facebook page.

This week’s song is Scentless Apprentice by Nirvana and the genre is Horror/Thriller. It was suggested by bumblepuppies who claimed this suggestion is a dirty trick of sorts. It must be because the song was apparently inspired by the novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind, itself a horror about a man with an excellent sense of smell but no body scent of his own who becomes an apprentice to a perfumer but then starts killing virgins in search of the perfect scent. Creepy.