The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #77368   Message #1393059
Posted By: AllisonA(Animaterra)
30-Jan-05 - 06:50 AM
Thread Name: BS: catsPHiddle going into Hospital
Subject: RE: BS: catsPHiddle going into Hospital
Blessings, Khatt and Micca- May you both mend soon! Now we know where the Mudcat Recovery Ward Headquarters should be!

I finally found a joke- not that it's close to the brilliance above me. But for what it's worth:

Shakespeare and Burns arrive together at the Pearly Gates.
Peter informs them there is room in heaven for only one more poet, and
the way it will be decided which goes in is by a contest to see who can
create the more ingenious four-line stanza using the word Timbuctoo.
The Bard of Avon is first off the mark:


"I took a walk along the shore
And heard the mighty ocean roar.
Forsooth, a ship hove into view,
Bound methought for Timbuctoo"


Burns hadn't heard of a place called Timbuctoo, but his ribald
imagination came to his rescue in heaven as it had done so many times on
earth:


"Tim and I a-camping went.
We spied three lassie in a tent.
Since they were three and we were two,
I bucked one and Tim bucked two."

Allison