FAMOUS FICTIONAL CHARACTERS…

…that ended up on “the cutting room floor”:

1) Kiki and Cherry-Mae Harrington, sisters of Eve Harrington, who had NO talent for acting but were quite successful at arson and Ponzi schemes. Eventually, after all three served prison terms, they returned to Milwaukee and resumed their lives as the Slescynski triplets in a brewery. Margo Channing had Eve's Equity card and Sarah Siddon's award revoked.

2) Bone-Spur and Mildew, two of the more unpleasant fairies in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM who pelted Puck with cow-pies in the opening scenes in the woods and gave all four of the young lovers crabs and the clap.

3) Sharon and Cornelia, sisters to Jamie and Eugene in A LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT. Neither drunks nor suffering from tuberculosis, they were nevertheless pretentious social climbers and party-girls who would come to New York City and boo their father’s performances onstage from the back of the balcony and then score drugs for their mother in the alley behind the Shubert Theatre.

4) Hidee-oshi and Moo Goo, two evil river demons who try to poke out the eyes of Ariel, THE LITTLE MERMAID. The Disney company loved the two villains but decided to use them instead in a horror sequel called ZOMBIE APO-CALYPSO!... a musical set in Haiti during a weekend of rough sex, piña coladas, earthquakes, hurricanes, and of course, the undead. Rated XXX.

5) Chew-Sette and Dorothy Vader: the long-suffering wives of a Wookie and the “Baddest Bongo-Man In The Universe”. It was bought as a pilot for a sit-com spin-off of the old I LOVE LUCY show, about their misadventures selling intergalactic salad dressing and wrapping chocolate covered sventroo eyeballs in a candy factory on Tatooine.

6) Franchina and Cosetta, two little witches with hormone problems who age prematurely at Hogwarts, and are forced out of Slytherin and into a special “Potions and Puberty” program with Snape. In the third film, he accidentally turned them into a two-headed boy and a goat, respectively. They remained close friends, but sadly, Franchina rode Cosetta off a cliff in the Half-Blood Prince.

7) Biff Lustica and Mort Kunch: two of the less convincing Cagelles in LA CAGE AUX FOLLES. Not particularly pretty, girlish, svelte, or even with any sense of rhythm, they are finally excused from the chorus, and take up careers backstage as the accountant and the truck driver for the scenery.

8) Mrs. Oaf and The Ghouless: two characters in Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales. Andersen continued to try to fit the two women into several of his stories as sadistic headmistresses, evil queens, angry ghosts, vengeful sorceresses, and finally cannibals… or shoplifters, but gave up and handed the two off to the Brothers Grimm who decided they were too evil even for the wicked stepsisters in Cinderella. Mrs. Oaf may have ended up being the model for the troll under the bridge for THE THREE BILLY GOATS GRUFF, and the Ghouless was slated to be Casper the Friendly Ghost’s mother who smothered him with a pillow at the age of 6.

9) Frances Unger and Blanche Madison: wives of Felix and Oscar in THE ODD COUPLE, who, once their husbands are out of their homes, console each other and even celebrate their new found liberation. As the two men unravel, the wives find that they are drawn together and become lovers. Only when it appears that Felix and later Oscar may try to rekindle their heterosexual marriages to their ex-wives do the ladies finally kill and dismember the men, serving them as cat food at a rescue shelter for LGBTQ pets.

10) Wilburine and Orvillette Gulch: sisters to Almira Gulch, local society doyenne in Dustville, Kansas. The three sisters owned most of the county through their father’s invention of the Dust-Bowl Buster, a circular broom with a propeller and a crank. After Almira’s untimely death in a freak tornado/bucket accident, Wilburine and Orvillette attached their Dust-Bowl Buster to a bicycle built for two, and invented the first Crop-Duster.

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A friendly suggestion for the... um... NON-readers in the crowd!

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Ask yourself! Do you have trouble reading Sybil's stories here on SybilSez.com? Do the words and letters sometimes dance around in front of your eyes, and maybe even say things to you or laugh and point at your private areas under the laptop? Have you ever found yourself looking at Mummie’s nice stories and saying, “No, I don’t want to read nice stories! I like to just look at pictures and point and laugh… and maybe drool a little before I fall asleep on the laptop!”? Well, have you??? Then you'll be happy to enroll in Mummie's new Remedial Reading Institute (and Petting Zoo).

With a simple call and a respectable charge on your Paypal, young persons like yourself are removed from worldly distractions for 6 weeks, and are exposed to highly nutritious meals (an interesting variety of oatmeals and dry biscuits from around the world), rigorous physical outdoor exercise (coal mining and loom work in a factory with few safety standards), and marathon out-loud reading sessions (in the nude and to barnyard animals who may or may not head-butt the readers depending on if they like the particular stories!). You'd be amazed at how quickly our students learn to read effectively and with less... um, exhaustion. “More focus requires more discipline!... or at least more oatmeal and head-butts”… That’s our motto and it’s carved in stone over the archway leading to the famous Chewzit-Upp Flannel Factory.

In a very short time, you'll find that words actually make sense... and MEAN something. You'll recognize certain words as being about things in pictures you've pointed at, and maybe drooled on. The English language may start to be your friend, and big signs in the street or on the highway will frighten you less, because you'll know the letters on them are also your friends, even if they are still dancing around or are pointing at your "special place". Interested? Sure! Who wouldn’t be! Just dial S-A-V-E-M-Y-T-H-U-M. That’s right! Call 728-369-8486. The nice man will tell you how to order!

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Tour-ette in Memphis... down on Beale Street. 3/18/2019... (part 2)

A. Schwab's where "old meets new" and everything else too!

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Tour-ette in Memphis... down on Beale Street. 3/18/2019… (part 1)

... A vintage Plymouth, W.C. Handy, and "three words"!

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Sybil Bruncheon's "Let's All Meet The Neighbors!"... Mr. Honus O'Yuckers ...

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Mr. Honus O'Yuckers of Sunnybrite, Maine saved a little money from his weekly paycheck as one of three mail carriers in town. He wanted to invest it checking his ancestry with a local service that claimed they could trace anyone's family tree back for at least 25 generations. Honus was quite sure he not only had Irish ancestors, but might actually have come from an ancient family of Leprechauns associated with Gaelic kings and warriors. In his interview, he reported his natural attraction to the color green, his peculiar talent at finding four-leaf clovers in open fields, and his ability to drink several pints of Guinness and stay completely on key during three choruses of "My Wild Irish Rose".

Locals began to take notice of Honus and his claims especially when the Bangor Times, the Augusta Eagle, and the Portlandia Cockle Doodle-Doo, all carried cover stories on him, his pointy shoes and corn-cob pipe, and the pot of gold coins he produced on St. Patrick's Day for the "Kiss Me, I'm Irish" Parade that embarked from Chawantakuck Falls and petered out by the time it reached Ogunquit. The press and the crowds all wanted to see his pot of gold and perhaps even touch it, but O'Yuckers was adamant. “Hands off!”.

It wasn't until the temperature rose to the high 70s that someone noticed his "gold coins" were actually left over Hanukkah gelt from December, and that the chocolate was oozing out of the tin foil. Too bad, Honus, but you still have that merry twinkle in your eye! (postscript: Honus’ real name turned out be Hiram Yunkelvitz… He was born in Levittown on Long Island, New York and was bar mitzvahed at the Neveh Say Neveh Shalom Synagogue… right next to Moishe’s Magical Bagel Bakery!).

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Sybil Bruncheon's "Springtime Weddings from Here & There!"... Pallpointe, PA.

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The wedding of Debbie Lindt; Long before people in polite society started to even whisper about fetishes, there was gossip about wedding nights involving stuffed animals, and “intimate apparel” made out of bath mats, artificial fur, discarded mink coats, and shag carpeting. Rumors had swirled in the girls’ locker room about Debbie for years, and then, finally, on her wedding day!... well, there it was. The evidence was everywhere; in the little caps, the muffs, the collars, and hemlines… and in the little “special guests” that joined the wedding party at Debbie’s invitation. That’s the “father of the bride” in the tux on the extreme left, and gay cousin “Pierre the Cocker-Poodle” on the far right!

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