hubby: three
Elsha: no, the answer is 42
hubby: mr owl says otherwise
hubby: you don’t wanna piss off mr owl
Elsha: mr owl is not a supercomputer
hubby: mr owl makes supercomputer his bitch
Elsha: mr owl cheated
hubby: that’s the real world for ya, baby
hubby: gotta cheat to get by

Haha. That’s a great, twisted ending for such a serious buildup.

Brilliant! And with all that logical reasoning, it’s hard to deny that your question is a real contender… Actually – if anyone gets the question I think the world will just implode and a new question will be written… But good story anyway! MH :)

I didn’t know it was a tootsie roll pop, I just thought it was a tootsie pop…

hmm good point.

Five pencils for the story, and five pencils for the conversation in the first comment.

haha! YES! thanks k!

That is awesome I never saw that coming! You know you can submit the number you get when you finish the pop? The company has gotten answers from one hundred to one million! lol Awesome story.

Probably the most surrealist story I’ve read on Ficly so far…but in a good way!
=))

That’s awesome…I’ve never thought to count. I was always too impatient and just bit it…=]

Mr. Turtle: I ain’t never made it without biting.
Love the answer to my childhood conundrum.

This would have been perfectly in place in one of Adams’ works.

Ten out of ten for the build up, and another ten for the last line. Here, have five.

that’s 25, if i take your last five on top of that. I should add in the extra 5 from kaellinn, as well. s0 30, plus 5, plus your 25, gives me 60 pencils. I shall share them amongst my fellow writers!

Your stories always make me smile. I’d give you 42 pencils but I guess 5 will have to do :)