It’s fun to go through the files on my computer and find pictures that I made but never turned them into actual posts. Some characters take off, like Super Viagra, Vagina Girl, and Evil Bunny. Even the Judgemental Sun used to make appearances here and there and here and there again. Others don’t even make it out of the gate, like the Weeping Willow, which was created on August 22, 2007 and never saw the light of day. I don’t know what the heck I was thinking with this creation. Perhaps it was my answer to SNL’s Debbie Downer? But how would this even turn into a regular feature? It’s positively mind boggling. Oddly enough, when the Weeping Willow was deemed unfunny, you got a different tree post that day. And for some reason I thought that was somehow funnier?
So I’ll leave it up to you dear reader: In twenty words or less, tell me why this Weeping Willow is so sad. Perhaps with a little teamwork we can dust off the tragic story of the Weeping Willow and introduce another character to the Puntabulous menagerie.
The Weeping Willow is so sad because she’s got a nasty case of nematode infection in her root system.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Nematode_nodules.jpg
I would imagine male-pattern baldness makes pretty much any sentient creature a little weepy at times. Especially if you’re not male.
The Weeping Willow is so sad because it looks like a volcano spewing green gases.
…or at least that’s what I first saw when I looked at it.
HUGS…
The Weeping Willow is so sad because…
his hair is so thin and brittle. He needs a full body conditioner!
The weeping willow is sad because she’s had to live with those horrible little green worms hanging in her hair for decades and now the Emerald Ash Borer is getting all the attention.
Um….he has flacid branches. That’s enough to make anyone a little down in the dumps.
Actually, this is the willow’s halloween costume, meant to scare his girlfriend (a sexy beech). The reason Craig didn’t use it was because of a typo — one too many O’s in the second word.
The willow is so sad because:
Her boyfriend, the Beech, left with his son, and now the son of a Beech won’t talk to her anymore.
The Weeping Willow is sad because it ate the hobbits all up and now there are no more hobbits.
haha dave. awesome.
The Willow weeps becasuse the movie that bears his name was not a blockbuster
Dave S.: I’d threaten to slap you for that comment about the sexy beech, but I don’t know where you are and I’m a little afraid that you would hit me back.
And clearly, Willow is sad because she has no friends. All alone in the middle of a field without anyone. (yay, 20 words exactly)
(side note: I hated Debbie Downer. I always felt like the skits were being force fed to us. “See, see! This is funny!” Oh, and don’t get me started on Jimmy Fallon…)
John: Would that be a beech slap?
nothing to add… just can’t wait to see where this goes!
John: …or would you just grab my neck in an oak hold?
…cuz I know you’re just pining to kick my ash.
The weeping willow is sad because she is not poplar.
Yes! Putting the Pun back in Puntabulous.
Sorry guys, I think chamblee54′s use of poplar is my favorite so far! Hysterical!
Agreed.
I blame Evil Bunny myself. (5 words)
Weeping Willow is so sad because Dawn stole her magicks book and accidentally turned her into a tree. And everybody knows Willow doesn’t like wood after season four.
(Too many words, I know.)
She’s sad because she just learned that the nice boy she saw at church last month wants ten lords leaping into his lap.
Obv. the Weeping Willow is sad b/c she thought the Giving Tree should’ve been about her.
I mean, really, what was Shel Silverstein on? Willows are so much more giving than that non-descript tree in the book.
Hm. Was that 20 words or less?
Craig: chamblee54′s use of poplar is the best!
Dave S.: Yew, sir, are a funny man! For the record, I also would have accepted “birch slap”, but not “sumac you around”.
Oh, we’re going for puns…
I’m not sure why Weeping Willow is sad. I’m stumped. I’m trying to get to the root of the problem, I think it might be that Weeping Willow wanted to be an actor, but the critics said he was too wooden. Then he tried writing songs, but they were all too sappy. Then he began to pine for a piece of ash, tried to spruce himself up for the his date, but got cut down when he didn’t have the green to buy her a fir coat. But I’m getting board of trying to go against the grain here, maybe I’m just barking up the wrong…
Sorry, I went on too long. Sorta twigged out.
Jere: That’s was incredible.
My teacher had us climb trees to write poems about nature and I wrote about how trees were not like humans and something like “Willow really did weep and now she won’t come out of her room” or something.
Oh, that wasn’t a reason why she’s sad though.
Maybe the judgmental sun just got done talking to her… tie-ins!
because he’s so tall and none of the super awesome short shrubs will play with him anymore.
“My boyfriend gave me termites!”
cb: Is that the tree version of crabs?
For the oak and the ash and the bonny pine tree,
They flourish at home in the North country.
[From traditional English folk song]
I’m figuring he just misses his mates. Plus, where’s the river? I always thought weeping willows grew by water. Bereft of exciting puns I turn to folk songs :-S