A-Z Challenge – ‘H’
To succeed as a writer I’ve been told that I need to ‘hook’ my readers in the first paragraph. That may be true but in my life I have been hooked on other things.
As a young boy I went fishing using a bent pin as a hook and never caught a thing. It was only when someone gave me a proper one that I realised the hook was barbed.
Fishing Hooks - by Retama (CS A-S A licence)
I then found out Hook could be a pirate when I read Peter Pan. His hand was quite scary but nowhere near as frightening as the hook that Abu Hamza has as a hand.
Hooks are all around us in every day life and many we take for granted like the simple hook and eye. I have vague recollections of being given advice by older boys on how to undo them with one hand; the usefulness of this I’d better leave unsaid.
Hooks and Eyes for Fur Clothing - by Kuerschner
There are hooks on coat hangers, and coat hooks of a variety of shapes. In the north England they refer to chapel hat pegs but these are not always the place to hang you hat.
In industry I came across hooks of different shapes and sizes on cranes although the crane fly and sand cranes don’t have hooks at all.
Hooks of Polish biggest floating crane 'Maja' - by Brosen, Gdansk, Poland
(CC A-S A 2.5 generic licence)
On the sports field I found it was foul to hook someone’s stick at hockey. Playing cricket a hook was a risky shoot unless you controlled the shot and kept the ball on the ground. As all golfers know a hook appears from nowhere and your ball deviates wildly from your club. I refused to play in the middle of the front row at rugby; there was no way I wanted to be a hooker. If you believe what you read in the press you may hear of sportsmen and celebrities who get involved with hookers of a different type and I don’t mean a one-masted sailing boat.
With this Challenge you could say we are getting hooked-up with one another. By hook or by crook I aim to get to ‘Z.’ I could tell you a joke in the hope that you would fall for it hook, line and sinker. If you have had enough by now there are two solutions open to you:
- Play hookey.
- Tell me to sling my hook.
7 comments:
Fun Post, Bob.
Someone made me a hooker in the rugby (league) team when I was a kid. I got kicked half to death in those scrums.
Ha ha, good one. I think you are hooked on the word hook. You hooked me :)
FUNNY and smooth - good one!
Snort...subtlety is needed for that one-handed unhooking.
I've never seen such a nicer and informative post on hooks then this! Great job!
What a fun and amusing post on hooks! I really enjoyed it :)
:)
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