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| "Off With Her Head" by Le Tron ~ "Toys With A Twist!" |
Alice Doesn’t Live Here
Anymore…
“Giselle, enough is enough! ALICE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE!”
stated Madame Le Tron in no uncertain terms.
“Je comprend, Madame, but she can’t go back to the ‘other
realm’ now,’’ retorted Giselle.
“And just why is that, Mon Cherie?”
“She has unfinished business, and everyone knows a ghost
with unfinished business can’t go back,” Giselle replied tartly.
“That has nothing to do with going back, Giselle, and
everything to do with ‘crossing over.’
Alice ‘crossed over’ rather nicely, I might say, when she drowned in the
bath at the age of three. That was over
103 years ago.” The sound of running
water could be heard above stairs as childlike laughter came tittering into the
room.
“Nice touch, Alice,” continued Madame Le Tron, pulling her
lab coat collar up around her neck. “Why can’t you be one of those ghosts that
heat up a room whenever they enter, not chill it down?”
Madame’s black-wool shawl slowly made its way from the back
of Madame’s desk chair and up over her shoulders, seemingly by itself. “ I hope
this is ‘service with a smile,’” quipped Madame. “Merci, Alice.”
“But Madame,” pleaded
Giselle.
“No, no, no, Mon Cherie, enough is enough! Alice is going
BACK,” Madame Le Tron repeated yet again.
With that, doors started to bang, lights started to flash, and Madame
was spun round wildly in her desk chair!
“Stop!” commanded Giselle.
“Arretter!” cried Madame.
“Buzz-Buzz, Beep-Beep!” added Ghoulish Gordon as he entered
the room.
“Gordon, you must send her back!” commanded Madame Le Tron,
her desk chair coming to a sudden stop.
“Gordon, you can’t send her back!” cried Giselle, pushing
her beret back upon her pretty blonde head.”
“Beep-Buzz, Beep, Buzz, Beep-Beep!” offered the robot in his
own defense.
“Alice has unfinished business to attend to, and I promised
I would help. I can’t help her if she leaves now,” frowned Giselle, barely able
to hold back her tears.
Ghoulish Gordon turned to Madame, raising a wrench-like hand
to his left eyebolt.
“No tears maintenant, Gordon or you will rust. And dear,
sweet Giselle, what is troubling you so?”
Down the hallway came a timid tapping, and as the tapping
grew louder and nearer, Giselle’s frown slowly turned upside down.
“Tip-tap, tip, tip. Tip-tip, tip, tap.”
“Oh, Madame, they came!
They‘re here! Oh Alice, entrez
s’il tu plait!” squealed an excited Giselle.
Two tiny tap shoes and a small pink striped tutu, fit for a
three-year old, floated into the room.
First one shoe tapped, and then the other.
“Oh, tres adorable,” exclaimed Madame Le Tron. “Might I assume that this is the unfinished
business you have been referring to?”
“Qui, Madame, we have been waiting ever-so-long for Alice's tap shoes to arrive and now they are here,” beamed Giselle.
“Tip-Tap, “ echoed little Alice.
“Beep-Buzz,” added Ghoulish Gordon.
“So, now we can send our little ghost back to where she
belongs. Gordon, since you were the one
to conjure little Alice up, please kindly ask Alice to leave now,” said Madame
Le Tron.
“Un moment, Madame,” interrupted Giselle, as she made her
way to Madame’s computer followed by the floating tap shoes and tutu. “I need
to set up a backlink. You know Madame, a
connection for coming and going back.”
“Well, after reading Debbi ‘s article on the Handmade
Artists’ Blog (see link below), I now have a solid understanding of backlinks,
Giselle. However, I am not certain I
understand how backlinks come into play in our current situation with little
Alice here.”
“To tell the truth, Madame, I am not sure that I completely
understand it either, but, as with any new technology, one must experiment with
it and then simply trust that it will work. Ghoulish Gordon has assured me it
is only a matter of time before technology catches up with the ‘other realm’ or
vice-a-versa. And at this point, the ‘other realm’ is using ‘backlinking
technology’ to move back and forth between here and there.”
Giselle typed furiously upon the computer keys while copying
code that flashed across the monitor embedded in Ghoulish Gordon’s chest.
“Voila!” cheered Giselle, as she pressed “enter,” and the
tiny tap shoes and tutu began to fade away. “I’ll see you next week for your lesson,
Alice! Oh, and don’t forget your new
shoes!”
“TIP–TAP J,”
printed slowly across the computer screen.
“Tip – Tap little one,” whispered Giselle.
Au revoir! See you
next Friday at 3 pm for another adventure from the Wonderful World of Le Tron.
Madame
Note: Backlinks were a bit of
a challenge for us. One thing we did
learn is that you have to have your blogspot blog settings, set-up to allow them. You can do this by following the instructions
below and then having a little trust!
The default templates are already set up with the necessary code
for backlinks. However, if you have a custom template, or one of our templates
from before this feature was launched, you will need to add the code yourself. Instructions for that
are here.
Once
everything is set up, you'll see a new link marked "Links to this
post" next to the comment link for each post. If you click that link
you'll be taken to the post page, where the backlinks are all listed beneath
the comments. Clicking the triangles next to each link will display a snippet
of text from the page linking to you, as well as some author and date
information.
We would love any advice or tips you might share!
Please post them below!
Please review our archives to enjoy our past adventures
including – SIMPLE HOW TO ORGANIZE THE UNEXPECTED WORKLOAD and learn just how
Ghoulish Gordon did “conjure-up”
Alice! J
