Not every one can solve a mystery – and most people opt for a frontal attack… I did not.
Friday Fictioneers – Rochelle Wisoff-Fields posts a pic to write a 100 word story about.
This week it’s: HUMOR
copyright-David Stewart
The Pagoda of the Man Dragging Lady Through the Street (A Confucian Delight)
When I was young I thought the Pagoda’s name was Man Dragon Lady. Later, I thought it was an LGBT establishment.
It’s actually a restaurant named after the street sculpture with a challenge similar to “The Sword in the Stone”.
The sculpture’s named: “Every Maybe Has a Wife Called Maybe Not.”
The challenge? Separate the lady from the man, restoring her to dignity, and win a free dinner.
My answer to the puzzler was to sternly inform Mister Hsueh, the owner, that, “It is difficult to pick up a needle with a boxing glove.”
I got my free dinner.
Randy Mazie
The Writer's Village 
An interesting ‘take’ on the image, Randy…
Here’s hoping you enjoyed your spoils…! 😉
my spoils were very tasty….
Randy, that Florida sunshine must be frying your brain!! You had me laughing at the first paragraph.
janet
Thanks for the compliment. I thought it was fried a long time ago.
Dear Randy,
I’m still trying to pick up that needle with my boxing glove. Drat. Almost had it, then, plink. You’re a loon. I mean that as a compliment.
shalom,
Rochelle
I know. You’ve called me that before.
Since this is the second time – does that make me a “dubloon”?
Repetition. Sorry about that. Dubloon? Could be. 😉 but I mean it in a nice way.
That goes without saying, Rochelle.
Randy
A dubloon is a gold piece in olden days.
Nice how the statue is part of the narrator’s life. Very imaginative!
Thank you.
“Man Dragon Lady” I love all the layers of puns there. 🙂
Confucius say, “Puns best when layers run deep”
I find the phot to be challenging to decipher. I kind of took the easy way out with mine I suppose, but i really had a hard time with realizing what I saw.
Confucius say, “No realization without hard time.”
You made me laugh – several times 🙂
several laughs is a gaggle and gaggles are a good thing.
They are already separate. It’s her dignity, not the man, to which she clings. Maybe that’s the same thing you said. Dubloon. SMH
Dubloon, indeed-y.
You think it’s her dignity she clings to? Or is it what she hopes for rather than clings to? Or more so, is it a refusal to let go?
Maybe even not wanting him to go off to war? To his death?
Maybe she just tripped and grabbed his leg for support on the way down and he is about to topple over himself.
Yes. He seems subject to flights of fancy, while she seems very well grounded to me.
Ha. Yes, she is very well-grounded.
Hahah – the Man Dragon Lady or Man Dragging Lady thing made me laugh. It’s great that you could find the humor in such a depressing looking photo.
It is sad to think that you could think that there is something funny in depression. There is nothing funny about depression. That’s funny that you could think that I could think that. Now I’m depressed. Funny how quickly moods change. And you think that’s a depressing photo? Now that’s funny. Ha. Sometime I will show you a photo of depression. That will really make you laugh.
Bizarrely yours in laughter and tongue-in-cheek,
Randy
A picture is often confusing enough without your amazing text. I love it but I am still wearing boxing gloves (and it’s a hell to type with)
Using gloves on a keyboard is like botox’ing with text
in this line: “was a LGBT establishment.” A should be “an” because it has to go with the pronunciation of the “L” and not the “L” itself. say it aloud and you’ll hear it. also, here: “…was to sternly inform, Mister Hsueh, the owner, that, …” no comma needed after “inform.”
very clever, like an ancient proverb. well done.
Although the corrections have been made (and I knew that they were mistakes but I thought I had updated my revised one), Confucius does say:
Never trust a man with perfect grammar.
He also said:
Perfection can be only a comma away.
Thanks,
Rich
two excellent sayings. proverbs. thoughts.
Thank you but as Confucius say:
Goose who laid the egg deserve the credit
yes, but fox that eats the egg gets the full belly.
sly, very sly…