I had a dream last night, and for once I remembered it. In this dream I rented a house from Thor, who warned me that he would break the lease and throw me out if I removed the small package that sat at the back of the freezer section of the refrigerator. Of course I had to look at the package as soon as I moved in.

Yup, there at the back of the freezer was a small tyupperware container containing a very frozen songbird. I spent the whole rest of the dream trying to figure out why this bird was so important to Thor. My dream was filled with angst and comments on the human condition, so I decided it would make a good movie.

I took notes then woke up Peggy to tell her that we were gonna be rich, because this movie would be bigger than the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The title alone would draw millions of avid movie-goers.

Peggy asked me groggily, "So what's the name of this movie?"

"Chilled Wren of a Lessor God," I replied. I think tonight I'm sleeping on the sofa.

[groan] Nice one, TEd.

Anybody else catch the Douglas Adams reference? Maybe I'm reaching, but it jumped right out at me...

I had one too, not that different in spirit.

It was like the Three Billy-Goats Gruff. People were walking across a bridge one at a time, and various-sized monsters were either gobbling them up if the people were smaller, or getting knocked off the bridge themnselves if the monsters were smaller; you never knew which would be next.

The media kept a running count for several days, and I saved all the newspapers. Finally my wife asked me what the pile was, and I had to tell her "These are the Times that size mens' trolls."

http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=wordplay&Number=30641

Just for the newbies...