Thursday 4 November 2010

Magpie Rooster 39

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Manners Maketh the Chook.
















Chanticleer, the rooster tall
Saw some spiders on the wall.
Said he, “Bonjour
Nice day for sure!”
Gave me a wink, then ate them all!

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21 comments:

  1. Fabulous! Well done and funny to boot.

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  2. Dear Stafford,
    I had a tough tough week at work. And your magpie is the first thing that managed to make me smile!

    Thanks!

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  3. Very clever. Thanks for sharing it.

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  4. I'll just say it...the word chook makes me all kinds of happy
    and your poem makes that frightening rooster almost approachable

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  5. By the way, Stafford - all other roosters and hens appear to have been eaten, turned into coq au vin etc. Only yours ate the spiders!

    A winner for sure!

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  6. Spiders and all, it's all in the game.

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  7. good one....gave me a chuckle

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  8. I like that, and didn't even share one with you?

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  9. Ah, he is SO very French. (said with an exaggerated accent)

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  10. Stafford,
    I think your game is just fine!
    :)
    rel

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  11. Humor has returned to the Ray
    pages; succinct, worth several
    smiles, one chuckle, and a glance
    out the window at the massive
    spider web suspended across
    the bottom pane. Where is
    cock Chanticleer when we need
    him the Northwest?
    Chaucer would be proud,
    as are we, sir. Stiletto and barbed
    and randy and real.
    Good mag.

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  12. Love it Stafford...you always have something good to say....bkm

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  13. How genteel of him to address the spiders prior to eating them.

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  14. Hmmm, dinner after its announcement... Nice take.

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  15. hahaha!!
    I hope this rooster didn't end up in MY tummy as dinner later in the day! Now I wouldn't want dead crawlies in it, would I? ;-)

    A superb anticlimactic take on the prompt!!! Me likeys...

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