Welcome back Wayfairers. Did you know I have a bluesky account? I am on bluesky at patrickmcdonald5.bsky.social. So far it has been mostly echoing things posted on this blog but that will be changing starting this weekend. In the meantime here is a little joke excerpt from the Sliberberg Sentinel. The article is one long running joke. Leave a comment or hit me up on Bluesky if you can figure out the punchline.

The Sliberberg Sentinel

May 3th 501

And the Mouse Police were caught Sleeping on the job.

By Gerry Conway

In a shocking rebuttal of Major Ian Anderson of the city watch claim that the mouse police never sleeps, several members of the Mouse Police were caught napping on the job as the notorious hole-in-the-wall gang pulled a daring heist at the Beltane dinner party at the estate of the Lord and Lady Cormic of Velvet Green. 

Constable Whiskers, Constable Wuffles, and Corporal Fluffybottem of the Mouse Police division of the CIty Watch were deployed to the estate after the watch received a tip from a Miss Harriet Brown-Mouse that the hole-in-the-wall gang would strike the benefit dinner for Minstrel’s Museum Restoration Fund at their city estate Dunringill hall.

However, shortly before the dinner was scheduled to begin, the gang struck, stealing the entirety of the cheese course, eight loaves of bread, the majority of the dessert course, and, to much speculation among the guests, Lord Cormic’s broadsword. In the wake of such brazen theft Lord Cormic ordered a search of the estate only to find the three officers of the mouse police sleep at their posts. Constable Whiskers was found asleep in a pussy willow tree; he had been seen chasing a quote, “suspicious looking sparrow,” who was hanging around the garden wall and claimed to fell asleep in the tree due to exhaustion from the chase. Constable Wuffles was found in the library sleeping in a sunbeam atop a copy of Songs from the Woods by Dave Pegg. Most damming of all Corporal Fluffybottem was found in the parlor by the fireplace at midnight.

When asked to comment about the Dunringill Hall fiasco, Major Anderson said, “Those incidents are merely rocks in the road. The mouse police have some teething trouble, but we will teach those vermin in the hole-in-the-wall gang a lesson.

Lord Cormic had much harsher words regarding the mouse police, “Whoever thought putting cats in charge of policing the mice has a skull as thick as a brick. The only way three of those beasties in uniform could be less useful was if they were chasing the weathercock on the roof.  This is a sign that the watch is living in the past and needs new blood.”