Capering Capers

Capparis spinosa
By pgn
@pgntwo (22405)
Derry, Northern Ireland
September 27, 2015 11:41am CST
With a hop, a skip and a jump, Kay Purse tripped lightly across the parking lot. With flowering courage, she decided to leave the gang she'd been planted in the previous March. Budding bravado left a bloom of excitement on her cheeks; a saucy grin flashed across her features as she waved tartare to the past. Her little caper on the beach earlier had ensured her a pizza the action that was happening further up the coast. The pickle firmly behind her, she prepared to assault the cliff-face before her. Pulling her caponata jaunty angle, she crested the cliff, flinging herself away from the salty brine behind. Such cheesy capers Kay Purse will have alongside her new accomplices, Anne Chovey and Olive Monterey-Jack. Don't miss the next stone-baked episode, starring Flinders Rose as Kay Purse!
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9 responses
Marie
@Tampa_girl7 (54718)
• United States
27 Sep 15
Not sure if I understood what I just read, but I love pizza.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22405)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
27 Sep 15
Word-games, @Tampa_girl7, some different meanings of the word caper and some uses of the common caper, Capparis spinosa. Not quite as elegant as I'd've liked though.
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mommaj
@mommaj (23112)
• United States
8 Mar 16
Well, this isn't anything I can go to bed after... Are you trying to cause nightmares? She had a pizza action from her caper and she flung herself off the cliff. Sure let's make this a bedtime story. HAHA. I liked this. It was a play on words and made you think.
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mommaj
@mommaj (23112)
• United States
8 Mar 16
@pgntwo LOL Yeah, I just put in a call to the publishing companies that you are not going to be in charge of bedtime stories series.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22405)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
8 Mar 16
It probably was stimulating rather than relaxing, true. Glad you liked it!
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pgn
@pgntwo (22405)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
9 Mar 16
@mommaj That's my writing career up the Swanee, or down the drain then...
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AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16676)
• Boston, Massachusetts
1 Oct 15
I don't know how I managed to miss such a tasty post. Perhaps my screen was full that day?
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pgn
@pgntwo (22405)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
17 Oct 15
@Rollo1 It is so easy to get swamped here, missing responses and comments... And it seems the default position is not to be shown posts from those you follow, unless they suggest them... Hoopy, weird, peculiar, etc.
Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
2 Oct 15
frilling stuff - can't weight four the neck's a-maize-zing chap tar.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22405)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
2 Oct 15
Such ant ix as ever eye have scene.
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
27 Sep 15
You want to be careful that you don't cut yourself on your sharp words. Very clever. The best bit was a pizza the action
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pgn
@pgntwo (22405)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
29 Sep 15
Not as slow as I walk easy, me...
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Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
1 Oct 15
@pgnTwo - Ahhhhh - Flowery text, spicy prose, and a tasty tale, all bundled up in the round on this, a most rectangular page. A remarkable feat- ooops, I meant "feed."
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Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
17 Oct 15
@pgntwo -Shoot ! I lost "track" in ,07, or maybe it was in '97, or maybe I never had "track" in my grasp, or did I, or diddle I ? Life moves along so rapidly. No sooner do you pour the milk, the Cheerios holes fill up.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22405)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
17 Oct 15
@Ceerios Speaking of holes, here's a piece I wrote decades ago when asked the question "Is it possible to dig a hole to China?", you might appreciate its warped logic :
Internet Oracle - Digest #433
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pgn
@pgntwo (22405)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
17 Oct 15
@Ceerios Oh, I missed this comment - so easy to lose track on here.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (502653)
• Italy
28 Sep 15
I am with @MALUSE on this, it's beyond be. I know how a caper plant looks like and I put capers on "Marinara" pizza.
Anna
@LadyDuck (502653)
• Italy
29 Sep 15
@pgntwo I also make tartar sauce to serve with fish. Capers are widely used in Italy.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22405)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
29 Sep 15
@LadyDuck The best use for them is in a sauce used to accompany swordfish, absolutely delicious - if you are able to get hold of fresh swordfish, or pixxispad as it was known in my youth.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22405)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
28 Sep 15
Capers also in caponata, also "...her 'cap on at a' jaunty...". Kay Purse is also capers. One capers when hopping, skipping or jumping. Capers are a main ingredient in tartare sauce, a common accompaniment to fish in the UK. It was just a piece of fun, inelegant perhaps, but interesting to write.
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Sheilamarie78
@Sheilamarie78 (2586)
• Canada
28 Sep 15
I was never a fan of anchovies on pizza, but olives and cheese can't be beat.
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Catherine
@bluesa (15022)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
30 Sep 15
Strange how words can have so many meanings, but it is a lot of fun too, we can get into a pickle or eat a pickle, I think I prefer the kind we eat. I found this caper of Kay delightful.
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