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Three Drowned French Cats
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On Jun 10, 10:12 am, George Dance <georgedanc...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Three Drowned French Cats > > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 5 Are you sure they aren't francophones from Ontario? |
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On Jun 10, 7:29 am, baloney <k...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> On Jun 10, 10:12 am, George Dance <georgedanc...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > > > Three Drowned French Cats > > > 1 > > 2 > > 3 > > 4 > > 5 > > Are you sure they aren't francophones from Ontario? I suppose it would increase the chances of this poem's publication in Canada if I made them Canadian cats. (How does "Three Cats Drowned in Trois Rivieres" sound?) But only from zilch to almost zilch. |
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On Jun 10, 10:12 am, George Dance <georgedanc...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Three Drowned French Cats > > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 5 And a partridge in a pear tree! |
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On Jun 10, 7:37 am, Sherrie Lee <sherriel...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Jun 10, 10:12 am, George Dance <georgedanc...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > > > Three Drowned French Cats > > > 1 > > 2 > > 3 > > 4 > > 5 > > And a partridge > in a pear tree! No. Been done. |
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baloney said:
> George Dance wrote: > > > Three Drowned French Cats > > > > 1 > > 2 > > 3 > > 4 > > 5 > > Are you sure they aren't francophones from Ontario? ? I thought it was George doing an impression of Mousy doing a bad impression of The Count. http://pbskids.org/sesame/images/count_05.gif -- Cm~ "The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse." - Henry David Thoreau |
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On Jun 10, 7:45 am, Barbara's Cat <c...@NOSPAMscientist.com> wrote:
> baloney said: > > > George Dance wrote: > > > > Three Drowned French Cats > > > > 1 > > > 2 > > > 3 > > > 4 > > > 5 > > > Are you sure they aren't francophones from Ontario? > > ? I thought it was George doing an impression > of Mousy doing a bad impression of The Count. > > http://pbskids.org/sesame/images/count_05.gif > Just trying to write something that (AFAIK) has never been written before. Which worked, IMO; it's far more effective written than as a verbal joke. I'll admit that, when I close my eyes and think about the poem, I can imagine the Count as the speaker. > -- > Cm~ > > "The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. > An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly > as a cat does a mouse." > - Henry David Thoreau |
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On Jun 10, 9:12 am, George Dance <georgedanc...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Three Drowned French Cats > > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 5 They should have stayed on the Gay Parterre: http://www.rickwalton.com/folktale/wells056.htm |
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On Jun 10, 12:38 pm, OB <nevilemo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Jun 10, 9:12 am, George Dance <georgedanc...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > > > Three Drowned French Cats > > > 1 > > 2 > > 3 > > 4 > > 5 > > They should have stayed on the Gay Parterre: > http://www.rickwalton.com/folktale/wells056.htm It's a Gay Parterre? No wonder there are fairies at the bottom of our garden! www.theotherpages.org/poems/fyleman.html |
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Barbara's Cat wrote:
> baloney said: > > >>George Dance wrote: >> >> >>>Three Drowned French Cats >>> >>>1 >>>2 >>>3 >>>4 >>>5 >> >>Are you sure they aren't francophones from Ontario? > > > > ? I thought it was George doing an impression > of Mousy doing a bad impression of The Count. > > http://pbskids.org/sesame/images/count_05.gif > > He was being 9th-grade Cute. "Un, deux, trois cat sank." -- -------(m+ ~/ )_|I do not "negotiate" for half my baby back, Solomon. http://scrawlmark.org |
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On Jun 10, 10:41 am, George Dance <georgedanc...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> On Jun 10, 7:37 am, Sherrie Lee <sherriel...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > On Jun 10, 10:12 am, George Dance <georgedanc...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > > > > Three Drowned French Cats > > > > 1 > > > 2 > > > 3 > > > 4 > > > 5 > > > And a partridge > > in a pear tree! > > No. Been done. Oui. Il est un impression de la travesti, Eddie Izzard. (Un? Une? La? Le? Du? Oy... Non, maird! I mean, mallard duck!) quack. seriously, cute. It took Dennis 'splaining it a fore I got it. Doh. |
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On Jun 15, 2:40 pm, "Dennis M. Hammes" <scrawlm...@arvig.net> wrote:
> Ronald 'More-More' Moshki wrote: > > On Jun 14, 6:26 pm, baloney <k...@mindspring.com> wrote: > > >>On Jun 14, 1:15 pm, Ronald 'More-More' Moshki <sector_f...@yahoo.com> > >>wrote: > > >>>On Jun 10, 10:12 am, George Dance <georgedanc...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > > >>>>Three Drowned French Cats > > >>>>1 > >>>>2 > >>>>3 > >>>>4 > >>>>5 > > >>>How about three cats lived and the attempted > >>>drowner was: > > >>>burned alive or > >>>burried alive? > > >>>Go with the latter. > > >>Who said the cats were drowned intentionally by a human drowner? This > >>is a joke, a wacky bilingual pun-rebus. Let's rename this Three French > >>Cats Fell in a Well but Got Pulled Out by a Convenient Rescuer Before > >>They Drown. Clumsy, but the joke is intact with out killing the cats.- Hide quoted text - > > >>- Show quoted text - > > > Much better, baloney. vegan, right? > > Vegan baloney? Soy curd? Cat fat? > > -- > -------(m+ > ~/ )_|> I do not "negotiate" for half my baby back, Solomon.http://scrawlmark.org- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Dennis does negotiate for one quarter of a small brain. |