Monday 6 April 2015

Edmond Eccles . . . . The A to Z of Slightly Strange Unknown Victorian Inventors and Explorers



Edmond Eccles

Eccles was a dreamer an academic who spent his days in the British library, reading its vast array of books on the meaning of life. It was during one of his visits to the British Library that he met Esmeralda one of the library assistants.  However she said she could never be with a man who was a dreamer and would only marry a man with practical skills who could deal with all that IKEA furniture.  So to prove his worth Edmond Eccles invented the Eccles Environmental Elbow a device to reduce earthquake vibration in tall buildings and those new fangled iron railway bridges.

The device was a brilliant success and as an inventor Edmond Eccles was invited to join the Preposterous Club of Great Britain where he and His Bride to be met another inventor Mr Benjamin Braithwaite Browning where young Esmeralda unknown to Edmond Eccles had her head turned having been introduced to the Barometric Bellows.

It was only months later when the highly publicised court case of Mr Benjamin Braithwaite Browning and the socking revelations of the Barometric Bellows use by certain folk, that Esmeralda told Edmond that she had in fact used the bellows herself several times during visits to the Preposterous Club.  This was too much for Edmond Eccles and he bludgeoned Esmeralda to death with his own invention the Eccles Environmental Elbow; as he was led away by the police later he was heard to say Life has no meaning which was rather ironic as he had spent fifteen years reading about the meaning of life.


He was shown leniency by the judge who said, those Barometric Bellows are the work of the devil and he would have probably done the same thing so Edmond Eccles was sent to the colonies where he died in an earthquake after only a week of being there.  . . . . . . . . It’s a funny old world. 

15 comments:

  1. Rob, this is a delightful read! I love your humor. Bravo!

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    1. Thank you although comments and visits have dropped off rather sharpish and I have gained two new followers but lost one existing follower.

      The world of blogging is a strange and fickle one so I will battle on

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  2. Ooh, murder, passion and Bellows! It seems that these Slightly Strange Unknown Victorian Inventors and Explorers are all a bit mad.

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    1. And it will get even madder as we progress Miss Lily, the letter G will see the first Female inventor of the Alphabet.

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  3. I have to admit that history isn't something I was interested in when I was young but I find it much more interesting as an adult.
    I’m also doing the A to Z challenge, Organize Home Life on http://AMomsPointOfView.com

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    1. I think as we get older we have more of our own past to consider so history becomes more important as a concept. Add to this the fact we remember stuff from 20 years ago but forget what we got up and went into the kitchen to do. So History is wasted on youth.

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  4. If you saw my post D for Diamond I can tell you we have equipment that can pick up eartquakes on the other side of the world. The bellows we use as well.
    http://spudsdailyphoto.blogspot.co.uk/

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    1. I will go and have a look at your blog a bit later on today. It is warm and summer here and as this is Britain I need to make the most of it.

      Oooooooo hello Sun my old pal.

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  5. Hello,

    Liked the humour in your post. A very creative and interesting way to ace the A-Z challenge. Appreciate the huge amount of work that's gone into this. Hat's off!!

    If all the personalities have alliterative names, I wonder what's coming up for Q?! :) Or for X!!

    All the very best,
    Nilanjana
    from
    Madly-in-Verse

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    1. Yes indeed a lot of work what with writing and drawing the pictures. . . . But i do love the A to Z,

      Yes X was a bit of a problem but I cheated.

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  6. Your drawings seem to have more ing than usual (I mean that as a good thing.)

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    1. I rather liked this drawing it looked like it was a thing that did something.

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    2. I agree. You could try making an imploded view drawing, which would be the opposite of an exploded view drawing.

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  7. Edmunds Elevated Emotions Evoked Evil Enterprises.

    poor chap.

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    1. Indeed Mr H he hit her on the ED . . . . . . . . . HAH AH AH hah ah ahha hah ah a hah ahahah aha ha ha ha ha ha ha haha. . . .

      Not sure I should have added the hysterical laugh I do not look good do I.

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