Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for April 12, 2021

It doesn’t even sound like hooves. It sounds like two coconuts and you’re bangin’ them together.

Marigold is a terrible ninja.

Sheesh Phoebe. So you’re in possible danger. You act like it’s a matter of life or death:-D.

Kind of like peeling out in the dirt, yet with fake sounds like you’re peeling out on pavement with the squeal.

Marigold has a leitmotif!

anyone thinking of Monty Python and the Holy Grail where King Arthur and the knights have some kind of person behind them clapping hallowed-out coconut halves together?

I bet any thing its going to be some thing small. A cat, a dog, a bug. One could really mess with kids with the right wording.

Merrily we clop along…

“With catlike tread

Upon our prey we steal;

In silence dread

Our cautious way we feel;

No sound at all

We never speak a word;

A fly’s footfall

Would be distinctly heard…"

Sung in a loud “whisper” in The Pirates of Penzance.

Marigold should make her hoofbeats sound like the strings thrum from Jaws!

“thrum” – what a lovely word!

Now I think Marigold’s just messing with her.

hey

Composed by Ennio Morricone.

And the theme from Jaws plays on…

They’re safe, the Shield of Boringness.

Reminds me of The Dukes of Hazard, squealing tires on the dirt.

I’m thinking “Mule Train”. And now I’m thinking therapy.

everyone deserves magical theme music