It’s Thursday and your new five-word challenge is here. This week, your prompt is EYEBROWS. So can you tell a story in five words, using the word EYEBROWS in it somewhere?
Here are your DUST stories from last week:
Dust? I need an alethiometer!
I’ll stay home and dust…
Ritu:
Dusting and me: Not friends.
Cake dusted with icing sugar.
From dust to dust. Amen.
Dust down your dancing shoes!
That’s really very dusty dear…
His shoes left dust marks.
Dust it for fingerprints, constable!
dark dust lanes in galaxies.
My house has dust bunnies!
Desert full of dusty sand.
Dusting is a dirty chore.
I don’t dust nearly enough.
Too many knickknacks to dust!
Dust! The backward looking stud.
San Francisco rush, gold dust.
Dandruff’s indentity crisis? Fairy dust.
Didn’t see him for dust.
Eroding cosmic rockery. Space dust.
Dust! A sign of intelligence
Footprints in the dust. Guilty
Dustman revisits holiday, bin there.
Dust settled, albeit momentary relief.
Vengeful nemesis, dust ever prevails.
Paul Mastaglio:
Can’t move for the dust.
Vacuum the dust, I must.
New broom in. Dust away.
Three, two, one: Dusty Bin.
Dust is a dark material.
Dust blows away in time.
We are all space dust.
Better dust than corrosive rust.
Chase me! Eat my dust!
Share my aphrodisiac love dust?
It’s a long, dusty road.
Hard to find: gold dust.
Feather duster: tickled I am!
Ken Dodd: hair, teeth, duster.
Move! Or dust will settle.
Linking People 2003:
Chalk is moulded limestone dust!
Blackboard cleaning releases chalk dust!
Dust fell into teacher’s eyes!
Electronic board is sans dust!
Valerie Fish:
Dusty Springfield was a legend.
My dreams turned to dust.
Feather dusters are very tickly!
Atichoo, dust makes me sneeze.
What a very dusty room.
Dusty Springfield a brilliant singer.
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Eyebrows show surprises or disappointments
Excellent!
Eyebrows and lashes precipitate crashes!
That’s very good, Keith! Thank you.
Thanks, Esther
It’s all in the eyebrows.
Eyebrows moving up and down.
A twitch of the eyebrows.
Great answers, Paul 😊
Her eyebrows raised at that! Ransom note used eyebrow pencil….
I like that second one especially. Very clever!
Thanks!
My eyebrows need threading, urgently!
Wild eyebrows, looking like caterpillars!
Lockdown – not good for eyebrows
Eyebrow raised, she smiled, knowingly.
Expressive eyebrows tell stories, well.
I can identify with the top 3!!
I’ve been messaging my beautician with silly photos of my overgrown brows!!!
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Creative as always, Ritu.
Number one: don’t do it!
Number two: caterpillars are beautiful beasts.
Number three: disagree completely.
Number four: Hmmm. The female double-oh-seven.
Number five: VERY well!
Oh, Lance, you don’t understand… I need my shaped brows!!!
No tweezers for these eyebrows!
Flawless Touch shapes eyebrows precisely!
Flirting with one’s eyebrows; scandalous! 😉
Great. That last one made me laugh out loud!
Haha, I’m glad!
The last one is so true. Temptation on such a scale should not be allowed!
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Eyebrows? Misplaced to catch tears.
Ha ha! Really cute
Thank you!
Super, as always. Thank you, Eric.
Eyebrows looking like blackened blocks.
New look: rainbow coloured eyebrows.
No eyebrows; alien look alike.
These are great, Sharon. Thank you.
RAISING eyebrows of native rivals!
EYEBROWS threading done for beauty!
DYING eyebrows can harm eyes!
THIN, hairy, even fallen eyebrows!
CHEMOTHERAPY can cause eyebrows loss!
These are great. Thank you.
Raised my eyebrows at this!
Nigel budgeted for his eyebrows.
Skirt length raised mothers’ eyebrows.
Sweat band victoriously usurps eyebrows .
Eyebrows meet secretly at bridge.
Above the mask, eyebrows dance.
Caterpillar eyebrows cocooned his face
Plucky beautician seeks hirsute eyebrows.
Blessings J x
These made me smile. Super, Joy! Thank you x
Thank you Esther. Are you old enough to remember Nigel’s eyebrows? x
Yes! I remember them well! x
I love that last one. Very clever!
Well thank you kind sir. My personal favourite is the one about Nigel’s eyebrows! Are you too young to remember them?
Not at all (too young to remember). Take a look at mine. I even remember a Chancellor who predated Lawson an had equally, or even more famous eyebrows. I met Mr Lawson at breakfast in a hotel in Porto Alegre.
Don’t raise your eyebrows here!
His eyebrows furled in anger,
My eyebrow pencil is blunt
Poker tell.. Raised right eyebrow!
That cats fur has eyebrows!!!
My eyebrows are very grey
Your penultimate one really stood out!
Lol!
Caterpillar eyebrows become beautiful butterflies.
Stencil with an eyebrow pencil.
Bond arch-eyebrowed his arch enemy.
Bushy eyebrows imply bushy bush.
Eyebrows: hair of bare? Hair!
Barbie and Ken are eyebrowless.
Fingernails and eyebrows comprise keratin.
Helena Bonham Carter: highbrow eyebrows.
Her eyebrows are Cupid’s arrows.
Saucy, smooth, sensual, suggestive eyebrows.
Dirty Bertie had flirty eyebrows.
I’ve a thing about eyebrows.
Baron Denis Winston Eyebrows Healey.
Racy eyebrows light my fire.
Wonderful! Thank you for all these gems.
Thanks Esther.
It was a great prompt. Eyebrow stories just flowed out of me. I had to do some ruthless pruning to cut my list down from the original more than fifty.
I am proudest of number four, “Bushy…”
That was actually the first story that sprang into my mind.
Fifty?! Wow!
I have to admit that many of them lacked quality, but I shall save them for possible future use.