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 Anne Thespy is building a theater down on the coast. It's an amphitheater: half of it is underwater, and the other half is on dry land ...
- Added: Nov 24, 2015
- Length: 02:39
I caught sight of my friend Bill O'Sale the other day, but only just barely. He was all fancied up in a pinstripe suit, and he was power-walking d...
- Added: Nov 23, 2015
- Length: 02:22
My friend Flora Caprifolia is a Junior Vice President of Marketing Ploys. I don't know where she's working now. She moves around a lot ...
- Added: Nov 20, 2015
- Length: 02:39
My friend Jimmy Fingerbutton invented a universal compass. I said "great! Which way is north?" He said "if you're referring to the North Pole, I...
- Added: Nov 19, 2015
- Length: 02:53
When Alice was very young, she had only one ambition. There was only one thing that Alice wanted to do more than anything else in the world, and t...
- Added: Nov 18, 2015
- Length: 03:46
There are 57 dead-end streets in this burg. And more roads to nowhere than an honest man can count ...
- Added: Nov 17, 2015
- Length: 03:13
I was out on Bottle Neck the other day. The tide was low, but the rain kept pounding down in endless layers, like sopping wet blankets ...
- Added: Nov 16, 2015
- Length: 02:41
When the universe is out to get you, what does luck have to do with it?
- Added: Nov 13, 2015
- Length: 02:29
My friend Rita Book is a lexical engineer. She helps create new technologies designed to make reading and writing easier - or, at least, that's wh...
- Added: Nov 12, 2015
- Length: 02:48
This one is a children's song about autumn ...
- Added: Nov 11, 2015
- Length: :59
Last night I camped out on the banks of Babbling Brook. Boy, did I get an earful! ...
- Added: Nov 10, 2015
- Length: 03:08
I was helping my friend Vern Acular sort leaves the other day. Vern thinks it's important that all fallen leaves are kept in separate piles accord...
- Added: Nov 09, 2015
- Length: 02:48
My friend Alfred O. Mega is a genuine, certified hero. It says so right on his diploma ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2015
- Length: 03:27
Ana Gram couldn't understand what was so important about spelling. She knew that letters were important. She knew that letters were used to make ...
- Added: Nov 04, 2015
- Length: 03:25
My friend Bill O'Sale owns the world's tallest outdoor, coin-operated vacuum cleaner ...
- Added: Nov 03, 2015
- Length: 02:52
A bunch of us were sitting around Elmer's Cafe the other day, telling ghost stories ...
- Added: Oct 30, 2015
- Length: 02:57
My friend Archie Meade was telling me about all the latest developments in the exciting and ever-changing world of mathematics. I don't mind sayin...
- Added: Oct 29, 2015
- Length: 03:29
Here's a little Halloween song for the kids ...
- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 01:54
My friend Buford Colic is hosting a barn dance this weekend. I'm afraid to go, for obvious reasons. I mean, have you ever seen a barn doing the h...
- Added: Oct 27, 2015
- Length: 02:37
Some guy asked me about the size of my carbon footprint. I told him it's exactly the same size as my regular footprint ...
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 02:32
