Tall Tales & Shaggy Dogs
Series produced by Rick Taylor
Stories and short humor by Abner Serd
Storyteller Abner Serd specializes in short humor with a twist. His stories often pull the listener out of the normal sphere of reality and into a surrealistic landscape populated with eccentric characters who nonchalantly redefine common sense. Think of these stories as comic strips for the ears: short, daily doses of whimsy. What yarns will Abner spin today? As Jimmy Fingerbutton the inventor once put it, "the world is full of things nobody ever thought of before."
Abner Serd is the pseudonym and alter ego of Rick Taylor. This series originally appeared as a podcast - the podcast feed can be found at: http://abnerserd.com/feed.xml
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My friend Stretch claims to be an eccentric millionaire. I said "does that mean you take a funny orbit around money?" ...
- Added: Jul 06, 2015
- Length: 02:08
My friend Vern Acular and I were out on firefly patrol last night. It's early in the season, but you can't ever afford to let your guard down ...
- Added: Jun 11, 2015
- Length: 02:17
Bobby always knew he was destined to do Great Things. After all, he was famous from the minute he was born ...
- Added: Jul 06, 2015
- Length: 03:14
My friend Rusty Sheehan bumped into me the other day – not too surprisingly, seeing as how he was walking sideways ...
- Added: Jul 06, 2015
- Length: 02:23
My friend Bill O'Sale is a businessman. He's always on the lookout for new business opportunities ...
- Added: Jul 06, 2015
- Length: 02:12
My friend Jimmy Fingerbutton invented an unforgetting machine. I can't remember what it's called ...
- Added: Jun 11, 2015
- Length: 02:23
It was springtime when I woke up this morning. By the time I finished breakfast, I could feel summer coming over the horizon ...
- Added: Jul 06, 2015
- Length: 02:49
Here's a little poem for the kids ...
- Added: Jul 06, 2015
- Length: 01:46
They say the world is getting smaller. I don't rightly know about that. THEY say a lot of things that don't make any sense ...
- Added: Jul 06, 2015
- Length: 02:27
My friend Seth Haitian is a marine biologist. He studies the life cycle of whales ...
- Added: Jul 06, 2015
- Length: 02:27
I saw my friend Paul Nader the other day. He was wearing a bright yellow vest, a pair of wings, a couple of saddlebags strapped to his legs, and a ...
- Added: Jul 06, 2015
- Length: 02:19
Not too long ago, in a town not too far away, there lived a very sensible young boy named Brian ...
- Added: Jun 11, 2015
- Length: 03:20
My friend Buddy just got a new job. He's a timekeeper. It's a dream job, when you think about it ...
- Added: Jul 06, 2015
- Length: 02:19
I walked into Elmer's Cafe the other day. Elmer said "who are you?" ...
- Added: Jul 06, 2015
- Length: 02:32
My friend Archie Meade is a graduate student. He's studying modern mathematical philosophy ...
- Added: Jul 06, 2015
- Length: 02:34
My friend Limber Jack is a conditioning coach for triathletes ...
- Added: Jul 06, 2015
- Length: 03:21
Once upon a faraway long ago, there lived a young girl named Alice, who was very fond of stale biscuits ...
- Added: Jun 11, 2015
- Length: 03:31
My friend Octavia Allegra is a composer of classical music ...
- Added: Jul 06, 2015
- Length: 02:26
My friend Anne Tenner has a giant set of eating utensils installed on her roof ...
- Added: Jul 06, 2015
- Length: 02:33
"I hope I remembered to put away the elephant ..."
- Added: Jun 11, 2015
- Length: 02:31