that one Art started should say..

"transporting gulls across a STAID lion for immortal porpoises"...but it IS a wonderful story...

so, folks...there is a MONUMENTAL collection of this sort of thing, as I found out when I searched for "Ferdinand Feghoot"...a monthly feature(by Grendel Briarton)in the old 'Fantasy & Science Fiction' mag ...it seems to have become a generic category, and the collection has been copied on several web pages....

here is one list

it includes such things as

Variations heard on a country folk song:

"Wry whimsy, wry whimsy,
Wry whimsy," I cry.
"If I don't get wry whimsy,
I surely will die."