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Horton, created by KilgoreTrout

final rank: 1 out of 32 (final score: 82.5 %)
for contest: dislocated animals

Sighed Mayzie, a lazy bird hatching an egg: "I'm tired and I'm bored And
I've kinks in my leg From sitting, just sitting here day after day...

So she got Horton to sit on her nest while she took a vacation

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Horton looks happy too !

(who is Horton??)
(2 years and 66 days ago)

great work.... we have the same idea!!! funny
(2 years and 66 days ago)

I thought everyone from all countries knew and loved Dr Suess books. He of "Cat in the Hat" fame.

He wrote two books about Horton the elephant.

In one of the books, Mayzie convinces Horton to sit on her egg for a short while, but of course Mayzie doesn't want to be tied to the nest, so Norton being "an elephant 100% faithful" sits and sits and hatches that egg.

[quote]
Horton is not a hen. Horton is an elephant.

He is the kindest, gentlest, wisest, most helpful elephant. So helpful in fact, that he agrees to sit on lazy bird Mayzie's egg while she flies off to Palm Beach for her vacation.

What? How can an elephant sit on an egg, you ask? That's exactly what Horton wonders as well, when Mayzie begs Horton to sit on her egg because she needs a vacation,

The elephant laughed.
"Why, of all silly things!
I haven't feathers and I haven't wings.
ME on your egg? Why, that doesn't make sense....
Your egg is so small, ma'am, and I'm so immense!"

But that conniving, lazy Mayzie turns on her charm and manipulates Horton's big heart.

...I know you're not small
But I'm sure you can do it. No trouble at all.
Just sit on it softly. You're gentle and kind.
Come, be a good fellow,
I know you won't mind."

Poor Horton gives in. He promises to sit on her egg and try not to break it. He promises to stay and be faithful.

So Mayzie goes off on her vacation and Horton goes about doing all the things that need to be done to nurture and protect Mayzie's egg. He first props up the tree so it can withstand his weight. He then carefully creeps up the trunk to the nest and gingerly sits on the egg. And sits and sits and sits.

He sits through days, he sits through nights, he sits through terrible storms, through snow and ice. He feels cold, he feels hot, he feels wet. He sits through the jeering taunts of all his friends. He hopes Mayzie doesn't forget.

Well, Mayzie does forget. Worse, she decides that she'll NEVER go back to her nest!

But does Horton give up? No.

He sits on that egg in the face of terrible odds. He sits even when he comes face to face with three hunters aiming their rifles straight at his heart.

And what is his mantra through all this?

I meant what I said
And I said what I meant....
An elephant's faithful
One hundred per cent!

Then, a lot of crazy things happen to Horton. The three hunters pick him up along with the egg, nest and tree. They ship him off to New York and sell him to a circus. He is the star attraction, a freak show. The circus takes Horton all over the country, but he never once abandons the egg.

The circus also takes him to Palm Beach.

Fifty-one weeks after Horton agreed to help Mayzie, their paths cross again. Just as they are getting reaquainted, they hear

A thumping! A bumping! A wild alive scratching!
"My egg!" shouted Horton. "My EGG! WHY, IT'S HATCHING!"

For the faint-hearted, for those who cry in movies - please, steel your mind, harden your heart, and compose yourself to withstand what is about to follow.

"But it's MINE!" screamed the bird, when she heard the egg crack.
(The work was all done. Now she wanted it back.)
"It's MY egg!" she sputtered.
"You stole it from me!
Get off of my nest and get out of my tree!"

Poor Horton backed down
With a sad, heavy heart....

Oh! The injustice of it all! I could wring that Mayzie bird's neck!

But wait! When the egg hatches, something strange happens. Something very, very strange.

From the egg that he'd sat on so long and so well,
Horton the Elephant saw something whizz!
IT HAD EARS AND A TAIL AND A TRUNK JUST LIKE HIS!

[...]

"My goodness! My gracious!" they shouted. "MY WORD!
It's something brand new!
IT'S AN ELEPHANT-BIRD!!

Ah! Poetic justice. Just so very satisfying.[/quote]

http://www.amazon.com/Horton-Hatches-Egg-Classic-Seuss/dp/039480077X

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/03/18/200829.php

(2 years and 66 days ago)

Great Work!!
(2 years and 66 days ago)

good work!
(2 years and 66 days ago)

wow, really nice
(2 years and 65 days ago)

My favorite so far! Man!...you could enter the QuarkWriter'sTalent contest also! I never knew Horton listened to Roger Daltry...
(2 years and 65 days ago)

DAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNGGGG!!!!!!!
(2 years and 63 days ago)

what's that I hear??? the crackling of a tree branch?

great image from the Dr Suess story!

(2 years and 58 days ago)

An awesome display of PS-ing..I know who you are

(2 years and 55 days ago)

*wow* Thanks for the kind comments and votes!!
(2 years and 53 days ago)

Congrats Kilgore!
(2 years and 52 days ago)

An elephant's faithful 100%.
(1 year and 201 days ago)

final score: 82.5 %

votes placed: 192

submitted: 2 years and 66 days ago

Cold Nebraska night, created by KilgoreTrout

final rank: 4 out of 11 (final score: 70.8 %)
for contest: 40s car

for 2 points where is the title from? :-)

any constructive criticism or heck, even non-constructive criticism is
appreciated and welcomed

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final score: 70.8 %

votes placed: 145

submitted: 2 years and 95 days ago

Dentist to the Stars?, created by KilgoreTrout

final rank: 4 out of 14 (final score: 64.2 %)
for contest: electric power

hey, at least I'm not like my brother, the proctologist!

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this entry has 3 comment(s)

final score: 64.2 %

votes placed: 96

submitted: 2 years and 85 days ago

Hi there, created by KilgoreTrout

final rank: 9 out of 33 (final score: 62.7 %)
for contest: old2young

I am a wild and craazzzy guy!

sources used:

1: source 1

this entry has 2 comment(s)

final score: 62.7 %

votes placed: 90

submitted: 2 years and 86 days ago

Moray SandEel, created by KilgoreTrout

final rank: 27 out of 32 (final score: 56.8 %)
for contest: dislocated animals

Believe, you do not want to run into one of these!!

Not many people realize this, but the Moray SandEel which is indigenous to
only a few deserts in the south-western United States was the inspiration for
Frank Herbert's Shai-Halud.

Today this majestic and ancient creature is endangered, so caution is advised
not to disturb any egg nests you may come across

this entry has 5 comment(s)

final score: 56.8 %

votes placed: 182

submitted: 2 years and 64 days ago

A Water World, created by KilgoreTrout

final rank: 10 out of 11 (final score: 50.9 %)
for contest: 40s car

The polar ice caps seemed to have melted...

1st entry here

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this entry has 3 comment(s)

final score: 50.9 %

votes placed: 119

submitted: 2 years and 96 days ago

Venice Model, created by KilgoreTrout

final rank: 12 out of 12 (final score: 46.3 %)
for contest: venice

Just a little model I made of my trip to Venice...

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this entry has 1 comment(s)

final score: 46.3 %

votes placed: 149

submitted: 2 years and 79 days ago

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