To Thread - Forum Home

The Mudcat Café TM
https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=24371
3 messages

Lyr Req: One Hen, Two Ducks

15 Aug 00 - 03:45 AM (#278006)
Subject: One Hen, Two Ducks
From: GUEST,Hutzul

I checked back and found there was an old thread on this but couldn't find that anyone ever posted the whole 10 items. I don't know if it was ever a song, I heard it recited by Jerry Lewis, hosting the Tonight Show.

One hen, Two ducks Three squawking geese Four Limerick oysters Five corpulent porpoises Six pairs of Don Alviso's tweezers (or trousers) Seven thousand Macedonians in full battle array Eight brass monkeys from the ancient sacred crypts of Egypt. Nine sympathetic apathetic diabetic old men, each with a marked propensity for procrastination and sloth.

Ten xxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx on roller skates

Anybody know the last line?


15 Aug 00 - 03:53 AM (#278007)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: One Hen, Two Ducks
From: Joe Offer

Hi, Huntzul - you didn't read the other thread (click) carefully enough. A genius named Joe Offer came up with the tenth item:
Ten lyrical, spherical, diabolical denizens of the deep who swim to and fro about the quo and the quay and the queasy at the very same time.
-That Very Same Joe Offer-

P.S. If would have been better if you had continued that thread by posting a new message to it, rather than starting a new thread. No big deal, but now you know.


15 Aug 00 - 10:23 AM (#278149)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: One Hen, Two Ducks
From: late 'n short

Joe's line makes more sense but the last line I remember goes:.."denizens of the deep who haul, stall around the corner of the quo of the quay of the the quivvie all at the same time."