Song Challenge - Sheep or Poodle

Subject: Song Challenge - Sheep or Poodle
From: oldhippie
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 08:03 PM

There must be a song in this AP article.

A Japanese actress inadvertantly blew the lid off a scam which had duped thousands of women into buying coiffured sheep in the belief they were poodles, the Evening Standard reports.

Maiko Kawakami appeared on a TV talk show with snaps of her pet, and admitted she wondered why it "didn't bark and refused to eat dog food". She was soon set straight - her dog was in fact a sheep.

The revelation provoked a stream of women to contact the cops with "similar problems". The powers that be reckon that as many as 2,000 have fallen victim to the audacious ovine poodle con, perpetrated by internet company "Poodles as Pets", which offered the animals at £630 a pop.

A police spokesman told The Sun: "We launched an investigation after we were made aware that a company was selling sheep as poodles. The sheep are believed to have been imported from overseas - Britain and Australia."

In case you're wondering how on God's Green Earth you could mistake a sheep for a dog, the Standard explains that poodles are "extremely rare in Japan, with many people having little idea what they look like".

Subject: RE: Song Challenge - Sheep or Poodle
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 08:12 PM

Easy to miss with the "cute" title, but the case has been pretty thoroughly discussed at BS: Schoodle or peep?.

Unfortunately, the story probably isn't true, but it still might make a song.

John

Subject: RE: Song Challenge - Sheep or Poodle
From: Charley Noble
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 08:22 PM

John-

Thanks for encouraging the song challenge anyway!

As one who composed a brilliant song about the cow falling from the sky and sinking a Japanese fishing trawler, I am sensitive to such shams.

But the question remains, what do we do with 2000 virtual sheep-poodles?

And why didn't someone in the story suggest that the nefarious company was "pulling the wool over the eyes" of its customers?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Song Challenge - Sheep or Poodle
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 28 Apr 07 - 09:10 PM

Well Charley, I suggested in the other thread that we might send them to NoDak¹ as "Russian Brides."

I omitted some other places where they might "pass" due to my provincial thinking about the high transportation costs to other places, and hope no one feels slighted.

¹ North Dakoto is populated by some (albeit very few)² very nice people; but being a remote and relatively unknown and misunderstood place for people in the central US, NoDaks become the "target" for jokes when the "Arky's and the teeth brush" genre gets a little tiresome. Many of the NoDak jokes revolve around sheep, I suppose since they are known to have some. Nobody really believes(?) most of the stories and no offense is intended.

I've heard there might be similar places on the other side of the water?

² I meant very few people, not just very few nice people.

Dang it - this get into all kinds of quibbling and equivocating. Fortunately I'm not much of a lyricist, so I think I can just slink out of here.

John

Subject: RE: Song Challenge - Sheep or Poodle
From: Charley Noble
Date: 29 Apr 07 - 10:11 AM

And I see that in the other thread someone else already copped the ""pulling the wool over the eyes" quip.

Time to retire!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Song Challenge - Sheep or Poodle
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 29 Apr 07 - 06:55 PM

Just saw on early morning Aussie TV that it is supposed to be a hoax.

Subject: RE: Song Challenge - Sheep or Poodle
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Apr 07 - 07:36 PM

John, Ozzies are always saying NZers have a very close friendship with their sheep

sandra (running away!)

Subject: RE: Song Challenge - Sheep or Poodle
From: Charley Noble
Date: 29 Apr 07 - 08:08 PM

And how about all them warbrides after the Falklands war?

The local shepherds were inconsolable!

Cheerily,
Charley Ignoble

Subject: RE: Song Challenge - Sheep or Poodle
From: JennieG
Date: 30 Apr 07 - 01:57 AM

Here's a couple of lines to start the ball rolling, tune "Twelfth of Never" or thereabouts:

I gave my love a poodle without a bark
I gave my love a sheepdog just for a lark
That poodle that I gave him was his and mine -
Until the twelfth of never, and that's a long long time.

Not a great work of literature, just something for the rest of you to work on!

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: Song Challenge - Sheep or Poodle
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 30 Apr 07 - 02:03 AM

G'day Jennie,

Or:

I gave my love a poodle without a bark
I gave my love a sheepdog just for a lark
That poodle that I gave him was his to keep-
Until the twelfth of never - but he found it was a sheep!

Regard(les)s,

Bob

Subject: RE: Song Challenge - Sheep or Poodle
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 30 Apr 07 - 06:00 AM

I'd love to see a Wallace and Gromit version of this story.

Subject: RE: Song Challenge - Sheep or Poodle
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 30 Apr 07 - 06:13 AM

He's Shaun the Sheep, he's Shaun the Sheep
He even knocks around with folks who do not bleat

(E&OE, cos I learnt it from youtube)

sandra

Subject: RE: Song Challenge - Sheep or Poodle
From: Charley Noble
Date: 30 Apr 07 - 09:29 AM

I bought my love a poodle without a bark;
I bought my love a sheepdog just for a lark;
But this world is so cruel, and so full of lies-
And, alas, the wool was pulled o'er our eyes!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Song Challenge - Sheep or Poodle
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 30 Apr 07 - 11:53 AM

I paid a lot of money for this dog with pedigree,
I'd met up with a con man,I'd been sold a 'pup'you see
Yes,I bought myself a poodle which I really could not keep.
My really well groomed dog was not a poodle but a sheep.

Subject: RE: Song Challenge - Sheep or Poodle
From: JennyO
Date: 30 Apr 07 - 12:28 PM

Surely Charlie, that would be "shearily"?

Okay, this one's a bit baaaa-ad, but it's all I could muster up, she said sheepishly:

You ain't nothin' like a hound dog,
Bleatin' all the time.
You ain't nothin' like a hound dog,
Bleatin' all the time.
Well you got a fancy haircut
But you ain't no dog of mine.

Well they said you was a poodle
Well, that was just a lie
Yeah they said you was a poodle
Well, that was just a lie
Well you got a fancy haircut
But you ain't no dog of mine.

You ain't nothin' like a hound dog,
Bleatin' all the time.
You ain't nothin' like a hound dog,
Bleatin' all the time.
Well you got a fancy haircut
But you ain't no dog of mine.

Subject: RE: Song Challenge - Sheep or Poodle
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 30 Apr 07 - 04:44 PM

Oh, the shearing's not for you, bonnie Lassie oh...

Kitty (I'll get my coat!)

Subject: RE: Song Challenge - Sheep or Poodle
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 30 Apr 07 - 05:03 PM

"Don't you dare call me Bush's poodle" bleated Tony Blair...

Subject: RE: Song Challenge - Sheep or Poodle
From: Charley Noble
Date: 30 Apr 07 - 05:12 PM

JennyO-

Very tastefully done!

How about some poodle BBQ?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Song Challenge - Sheep or Poodle
From: Artful Codger
Date: 01 May 07 - 07:38 PM

Good heavens! my new poodle
Laid such an odiferous doodle
After eating all the chard in
My now depleted garden.

Subject: RE: Song Challenge - Sheep or Poodle
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 02 May 07 - 07:50 AM

The whole thing was an internet hoax folks!!!!!

Subject: RE: Song Challenge - Sheep or Poodle
From: JennyO
Date: 02 May 07 - 08:44 AM

Who cares? It's still an interesting shaggy dog story - or is that a woolly yarn?

The potential for a song challenge is still there too.

Still working on the poodle BBQ Charlie :-)

Subject: RE: Song Challenge - Sheep or Poodle
From: Charley Noble
Date: 02 May 07 - 07:33 PM

JennyO-

Don't try too hard! Please ...

Cheerily,
Charley Noble, in NYC

Subject: RE: Song Challenge - Sheep or Poodle
From: GUEST,Chief Chaos
Date: 03 May 07 - 01:23 PM

Could this be referred to as Steel Wool?

Subject: RE: Song Challenge - Sheep or Poodle
From: Rowan
Date: 03 May 07 - 06:23 PM

Nah, Chief,
everybody in Oz knows you get steel wool from hydraulic rams.

Cheers, Rowan