Azalea, Great Laurel, and Labrador Tea are outside, playing among their family's rhododendron garden. The three colorful sisters chase each other about, laughing.
Labrador and Azalea stop as they reach the goose pen, surveying a disastrous scene before them. The geese are all fine, except for one. Kept separate from the others is the oldest of them, covered from bill to tail in red paint. Nearby is a long splash of it covering the ground where somepony had hurled a bucketful into the pen. The goose honks weakly, struggling with the sticky substance matting its once-gray feathers.
"What happened here?!" Azalea shouts.
Labrador Tea, the oldest of the fillies, thinks she knows. "I bet it was those derned Roses playin' another prank on us," she says, eyes narrowed. "They always did play dirty."
Just then, Great Laurel catches up behind them. "What's goin' on he- aaah!" she shrieks.
"Don't worry, Laurel, it's just paint," Azalea says.
"Azalea and I will stay here and look for clues and keep watch," Labrador Tea says to Laurel.
"W-what should I do?" she asks.
"Go tell Aunt Rhody that the old gray goose is... red."
*Blinks* Okay, I'll be honest. I'm not familiar with whatever this pun is referencing.
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It’s from an old song, recently made popular from the opening title of Resident Evil 7.
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Yeah, this one may be a bit on the obscure side. I was just thinking of the song though, and wanted to write one of these for it, heh. I'll try to stick to more well-known stuff if I can.
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I probably rushed this one too much and didn't write the story part very well. The idea is she assigns a sign to him that he can hang or set up near his house that says he has sinus problems, so they don't smoke and stuff near it. I dunno. I guess not all of them can be winners.
I swear you are insanely clever to come up with these.
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http://www.metrolyrics.com/aunt-rhody-lyrics-traditional.html
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Well, it was kind of inevitable that it would, if nothing else, reduce the number of witty replies. After all, goose scripts shrink quips.
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Haha, nice one. *claps*
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That's a bit of a stretch. Recognizable.
A song pun ...heh
9407989 Alondro reels back in pain, "I FELT that!"
I have always wanted to try Labrador Tea, but it grows quite far away to the north. And it's cold up there. One must be cautious, though, as the tea contains the terpenoid ledol which is toxic. One species, R. groelandicum, has the lowest levels of this toxin and is the most used therefore.
It should also be noted that the Rhododendron genus is part of the Heath superfamily of plants (Ericaceae) which includes well-known acid-loving bog/sand/mountain plants like heather, azalea, and laurel; and fruits such as the the European strawberry tree, blueberry, teaberry/wintergreen, lingonberry, huckleberry, and cranberry.
It also includes a strange subfamily of plants, the Monotropoideae, which are parasites of mycorrhizal fungi and several are known in the USA for their ghostly white flowering parts called 'Indian Pipes'. This group also contains the herbal medicine plant pipsissewa, which we find scattered about the NJ Pine Barrens in places with little ground clutter.
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Neat! In my brief research to come up with names, I didn't learn any of that. Interesting. Thanks for sharing!