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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Around these parts, the best place to watch the fireworks is out by Lark's Meadow ...
- Added: Jul 03, 2015
- Length: 02:53
My friend Wanda Farr is a location scout for a dream assembly unit. She travels all over the globe looking for exotic settings to serve as the back...
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 02:34
Do you remember a long time ago, when I told you about a very smart and curious young boy named Brian? He was always asking questions, like “why is...
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 03:09
My friend Flora Caprifolia is a Junior Vice President of Marketing Ploys at a company that manufactures excuses. I said “I suppose you have a good ...
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 02:36
My friend Miles Walker and I were hiking down along the Almanac River the other day. We followed the river from its headwaters up by Winter Springs...
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 02:11
Stanley Oliver Terrick was arguing with Elmer about Truth. He said “that's a lie! The Truth is not shaped like a pyramid – it's round like a ball, ...
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 02:46
I saw my friend Stretch the other day. He was heading out of town on the Arcadian Road. I said “where are YOU going?” ...
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 02:30
Here's a fun little song for the younger kids ...
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 01:11
I saw my friend Seth Haitian the other day. He was standing on the beach, looking out to sea and waving his arms ...
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 02:21
My friend Paranoid Clara Boyd used to believe the Earth was actually some kind of super-size industrial washing machine, with its current load on s...
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 02:30
This morning began without my knowledge or consent – although in retrospect, I suppose I should have seen it coming ...
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 02:21
My friend Esther Day is an historian. She specializes in researching very short term historical phenomena ...
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 02:06
Rose Bush was allergic to B's. Not really, of course. After all, a B is just a grade on a report card, and how can anybody be allergic to that? ...
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 03:29
My friend Vern Acular and I were traipsing along out on Wild Side the other day. We had no agenda, which is unusual, on account of Vern is always o...
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 03:14
It was a cold, rainy morning. Even the rain itself seemed glum ...
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 02:37
My friend Jimmy Fingerbutton invented electric socks. He showed them to me one time. I said “they don't look very comfortable” ...
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 02:28
My friend Archie Meade is working on a new math problem: he's trying to calculate how much air there is ...
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 02:47
George Graffer and his sister Cora walked down the long gray corridor. Actually, George walked. Cora skipped. Occasionally, she hopped. Now and the...
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 03:52
I saw my friend Stretch the other day, out on Wild Side Road. He had twigs in his hair, and his socks were covered in burrs, and he looked like he'...
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 02:27
This is an old recording from the archives, used to help bridge a three-week podcast hiatus in May/June, 2015. The recording has considerable tape...
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 15:25
