Portrait of Words – #26
Dr. John at Dr. John’s Fortress and I would like to thank you for participating in Portrait of Words. If you are new or need the instructions for this weeks installment you can go HERE. For the writing guidelines on Portrait of Words you can go HERE. I would like to thank Paul at Vermin Inc. for letting us use pictures from his photo stream. Dr. John and I appreciate it a great deal. Mahalo!
INERPRETATIONS
There was an old saying once upon a time: When The Devil Rides To Work On A Snowmobile. Now there were some people that just didn’t grasp the meaning of the old idiom especially those that lived in an area of the world where it never snowed. 
Most people in areas like that had ever heard of a snowmobile let alone see one on TV, an ad or in real life. So it meant absolutely nothing to them. The idiom had lost it’s meaning to them. But they continued to use it on a daily basis. Take for instance:
Walden the Whale and Dirty Rat Benjamin of Bloomenthall Battlefield. You might not think that whales and rats could talk but as legend goes The Dragons taught them and taught them well. It had something to do with the Dragon’s Code of Ethics that all animals must know how to communicate with one another.
It was a painstaking lesson for The Dragons to teach these two very different species any communication abilities at all. Just looking at them, one a huge mammal living in the depths of the ocean blue and the other a sneaky little bugger that roamed the bowels of society and yes even visited human abodes every now and then, one would think this would be an impossibility. Despite this The Dragons succeeded in teaching them to talk. And throughout the years the two species taunted
each other as to who had the superior race. Of course Walden and Benjamin continued this bantering and when they uttered the idiom they both just laughed as they had no clue what a snowmobile even was. It was just words to them and fun to say.
On the other hand Frankie Frogman and Cindy Cell Phone, husband and wife, were on an expedition to find the value of electronic equipment deep in the jungles of the Amazon. Frankie was there to test the waterproof 
camera that had
just been designed and Cindy the water proof cell phone. Somehow the water was to charge the battery in the phone. Well of course the test took months to complete and by the end of the expedition both Frankie and Cindy were ready to leave the jungle. The food was horrible, it never stopped raining and the equipment was failing all tests miserably. It was a place that neither one of them wanted to go again and both vowed to quit their jobs and sail the world once they got back home. So when either one of them spoke the idiom they were referring to the expedition and they just figured it was good enough code so their superiors would never know they were going to quit.
On the
other hand some people living in non-snow areas knew the exact meaning. Fearless Freddie. His parents owned a huge flower farm and everyone in the family had to help out. Even Freddie. It was a successful farm and Freddie knew one day it would be his. But he was a child he thought and it was a time to play. So whenever his parents told him to go out pull weeds and water a portion of the farm, under his breath Freddie would mumble the idiom, leave the house and play with his trucks and army men in the field. He continued this until he heard one of his parents coming up and then would quickly gather his toys, scamper away and start weeding. The Devil did Arrive To Work On A Snowmobile.
Hey, it’s only my opinion.
A Hui Hou
Are you back from your vacation…or is this a scheduled post? I thought I remember reading you’d be back on the 2nd….hey…trust me, I lived where there was snow…LOTS of it.
This portrait in words is super Thom. You’re missed.
Thank you my friend. I got back yesterday and have had to take care of some things. WOOT!!!
I certainly learned something today. Thanks, Thom. Cheeky Freddie
LOL…glad you learned something
Wonderful – Loved the whale shot
Mahalo my friend
Cute story! And what a way to work in Dr. John’s idiom!
And most of all … Welcome Home! 
Thank you. It’s good to be back.
Glad you enjoyed 
Way to go, Freddie!
My sentiments exactly
A whole story written around the pic AND Dr. John’s idiom. You write almost as well as the dragons.
Oh Q I’m far from that good but thank you
that was clever, using the idiom to create an interesting story around those photos!
Thank you my friend
Fun story. I bet you learned lots about snowmobiles on your vacation.
Poor Tuesday
Thanks…indeed I did
LOL at Frankie Frogman and Cindy Cell Phone!!
Dang, I’ve been forgetting to litter my conversation with The Idiom but I’m back on track now — promise!
And poor Benjamin… demoted to *rat*? Give him a snowmobile!!
LOL. No the demotion stands LOL
Apparently the devil DID just drive to work on a snowmobile, because that rat picture creeped me out! I’m pretty sure the Devil is really a rat.
LOL. Yeah it was a strange photo I must say but I just couldn’t resist it
It IS the devil KC! At least, it’s a Tasmanian Devil. Just no snowmobile LOL
ROFLMAO!!!
Welcome back Thom!
Love the way you really worked all these pics in – Frankie and Cindy was very clever thinking.
Mahalo my friend all the way around. It’s good to be home
Sorry to be getting to visit now, it has been a hectic last few days.
I loved this, and how you incorporated Dr John’s Idiom and Dragons. What a nice thing to do.
Frankie Frogman, [Blanche’s Love was Frankie}.
Hope you had a good time in Seattle, I go for my testing tomorrow, hopefully the Interview will be soon.
Take care Thom
Good for you Bill. I’ll keep all my fingers crossed for you. Well I wonder if this is the same Frankie LOL. Well I suppose it is since we are using the same photos
I keep saying it…but I never cease to be amazed! How you take photos and make a story is beyond me!
And I keep telling you and you never listen that you would be great at this
Thank you 