Uncle's Old Times

Written by: zoz

SingALong Minoto Tribute
to the tune of "Maria" from West Side Story

The most beautiful sound I ever heard:
Minoto, Minoto, Minoto, Minoto...
All the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word:
Minoto, Minoto, Minoto, Minoto...

Mi No To!
I've just played a game by Minoto!
No other escape game
Could ever mean the same
To me!

Minoto!
It's the game that we all love playing
It's a word that I just can't stop saying

Minoto!
I'll never stop playing Minoto!

still to come: Uncle Old Times analysis (I just couldn't stop singing Minoto!)
7/5/10 17:05


Uncle Old Time: Not A BedTime Story

What to make of a funny small man
Whose hair is done in a comb-over
A small man who nonetheless can
Cause roaring waterfalls to hover
Water hanging right there in mid-air?

This Uncle Old Time has misplaced
An elusive and forgotten thing,
Seems his memory has been erased
As he ages to Autumn from Spring
We should try helping him, if we dare

The squirrels are hiding, they're two,
Behind an enormous grey stone
The panda is in the scene, too
Although he is sitting alone
Awaiting his next scrumptious meal

The Sun has some scary big teeth
(Maybe he needs to visit a doc!)
Shining down upon Stonehenge beneath
SSSG stands guard by a rock
Like this really is just no big deal

We can pick up the small nut of toy
Although it’s not ok to eat
It’s wooden, but still can bring joy
To the squirrels who think it can’t be beat
(Oh, those squirrels really know how to play!)

But, Oh No! When the squirrel gets the nut
He finds himself caught in a trap
With ruggedness and it is shut
Now holding the squirrel with no gap
To enable him to run away

But squirrel number two has a plan
To help his companion be free
He fetches the ball ‘cuz he can
Recall hiding it up in the tree
In the nestbox that dwells way up high

Now this ball can be used by the clown
To throw straight at the big army tank
His fierce fastball destroys with no sound
Vaporizing the tank and we’re thank -
Ful coulrophobia passed us by!

Because that clown was scary as hell!
Now, merely by chance parts of the
Tank that the explosion flung pell mell
Became shaped into tension rod we
Then can use to let squirrel go free!

This enables us to give the Sun
The trap to use as dentures instead
Of the corn teeth with which he was done,
Since they rattled around in his head
And his food had to be pea puree!

Now the teeth the Sun has makes him look
Like the Nightmare on Elm Street’s bad guy
Or that weird Hannibal Lecter crook
From that movie where good people die
But we digress, so let’s look ahead

We put corn in the heavy stone mill
Which was turned and it shattered and Maize
Flour resulted and chef showed his skill
Turning flour into soup that amazed,
With smart beauty, the panda it fed .

Though the panda could learn better manners
He drank the thin corn soup with glee
And, instead of making us find spanners,
Gave spoon that was bent by ESP
Into curved spoon by SSSG.

Uncle Old Time took curved spoon in hand
And unlocked the box under the falls
And now forgotten thing is in hand
And relief is felt by one and all.
After test end what’s next, no one knows.

For you doubters who think this is strange
Or that things like this never occur
I submit that, although it’s deranged,
Even Doc Freud would likely concur
In Minoto’s world anything goes!
7/5/10 20:14