Double you double you tee es de ?
Pinkie and Lyra have developed a lawnmower. When none of her friends are able to start it, Pinkie realizes that nopony in Ponyville is going to be able to. So, she heads out on her own and finds someone who can.
Mediocore [Comedy] fic, published mostly because "why the heck not".
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In the Boy Scouts, you regularly have campfires. And at campfires, especially ones where there's more than one troop present, it's common to have entertainment in the form of skits. These are brief plays, typically ranging from one to five minutes, depending on the story and execution.
However, we were never great at skits. None of us are really writers, at least in that sense, and we all pretty much froze up when we had to come up with a skit anyways. As a result, we tended to focus on skits that were basically extended jokes, which as often as not were real groaners. ("It's all around me! It's all around me!" "What is?" "MY BELT!") And because we weren't terribly creative as a group, we tended to have the same skits come up over... and over... and over.
Pinkie and the Lawnmower is based, almost directly, off one of those skits. Sure, I justified the lawnmower somewhat (although the full justification assumes some context from Contraptionology, specifically from Infernal Machines), and I had to track down Gilda since folk like her are nowhere near common in Equestria, but the groaner of a punchline is the same.
This is not anywhere near best work. It looks fine to me; passes spellcheck; and despite the fact that I wrote the whole thing in at most about four hours between midnight and four AM, I'm fairly confident that the grammar and punctuation are passable. Considering this is a whim of a stupid idea, that's about all I ask for.
Downvotes to the right.
Lol, that last line.
One thing though, Rarity says "gife it a pull". Shouldny it be "give"?
1826122 Hmm. That would be wrong, but I'm not finding it.
When Lyra's talking, I deliberately mis-spelled it that way because she's got the handle in her mouth (don't ask me why, she just does). Rarity is using her telekinesis, so she doesn't have anything obstructing her mouth.
I'm not finding Rarity using that line, anyways. This means either I screwed up really bad, and I'm going to facepalm when I eventually see it (which probably won't be until after it's pointed out to me); or I wasn't clear enough in that part, and you're mis-reading Lyra's line as Rarity's.
If the Cutie Mark Crusaders can build a giant motorized apple in one night (and still not earn their cutie marks), I see no reason why Lyra and Pinkie couldn't build a lawnmower despite not being able to use it.
Well done. I laughed.
Ahhhhh, me gusta.
Punchline was perfect.
Just by seeing the character tags (and as a Boy Scout myself) I already know what the punchline is.
And it is glorious.
1826445 This is good news, actually. It means I've done my job with the description and tags perfectly. Thanks for dropping by.
1826361 This is good news as well. It means that in spite of everything, the story still works. Appreciate it.
1826174 Oops, yeah, I DID misread Lyra's as Rarity's >_<
1826725 Which means I may not have been clear enough. Would you be willing to dissect that section, and try to figure out why you misread it the first time? If it's an actual problem, I would prefer to be able to fix it.
Oh dear Celestia that pun. It was horrifying, and yet strangely satisfying.
Okay, you got me.
Wooow. Terrible, and yet somehow still hilarious. Me likey.
Dat joke tho.
AAAAH!
And then ponyville used the infernal device as a jerk detector.