I’ve often wondered if, in the nether back offices of the WordPress organization, there is a small secluded office. It’s poorly lit. The janitor rarely gets that far into the recesses, and it’s near the “old” restrooms. You know the ones only used in desperation because the cleaner ones are occupied. Its proximity to the lower functions of the human organism, the occasional odors creeping forth, and the general miasma don’t appeal to casual guests. Not too many say, “I wonder what’s down that corridor.” If they penetrate too far beyond the lights that flicker, or the dripping sink that is never repaired, they may have a slight shiver. In the background, you can almost hear the theme music of The Twilight Zone playing.
There, on the wall of the fifth door, is a simple sheet of legal-sized paper tacked to the door. Department of Idiotic Promots – do not disturb.
Knock only at your own risk. They may ask you what your favorite word is. The result is carefully tabulated, cross-referenced, and vetted for analysis via principal component techniques using carefully selected eigenvalues. In the back, Chuck begins to fume, cackle, and caper. The ancient Einiac computer they use lights up, and there are oohs and ahhs.
Another day at the Department of Idiotic Prompts comes to a successful end.
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Two — and for the nonce 3 — of the daily RDP prompts are coming from me. Yep.
Back in the olden days when I started my blog here there was a daily prompt. Real people wrote them. I hated them. Most of them seemed to come from 80s music, notably songs by the Cranberries. People bitched. The prompts vanished.
That’s where RDP came from, “Hey, prompts are kind of fun!” I joined but bailed when it was too much like teaching English. Then, in 2020 I returned. It’s just a word. Then WP returned with prompts. I didn’t sign up.
I use Fandago’s, the RDP and Alice’s Word of the Day. I like to incorporate them with the daily prompt, but get most of my pleasure from bending, twisting, folding, spindling and mutilating them.
There were daily prompts at the last blog platform I used, before WordPress, and I liked them back then. But I also had a MySpace page back then. The world was different.
I think that generally the prompts are not too awful, but quite often now they repeat, year after year, and seem to come off as questions from a psychologist’s exam.
You always make me laugh, Lou. The department of idiotic prompts tells it all.
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