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My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts) Mon Sep 8, 2014, 05:37 AM Sep 2014

The pheasant plucker

I am not the pheasant plucker
I'm the pheasant plucker's mate
I am only plucking pheasants
'cause the pheasant plucker's late.

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The pheasant plucker (Original Post) My Good Babushka Sep 2014 OP

Love it! Reminds me of another: Orrex Sep 2014 #1

I'm not a fig-plucker, nor a fig-plucker's son, but ... eppur_se_muova Sep 2014 #2

That's garbage, Man Brother Buzz Sep 2014 #3

Orrex

(63,216 posts)

1. Love it! Reminds me of another:

Reply to My Good Babushka (Original post)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 10:36 AM

Sep 2014

I'm a mother pheasant feather-plucker,
I pluck mother pheasants.
I'm the pleasantest mother pheasant plucker
that ever plucked a mother pheasant.

eppur_se_muova

(36,271 posts)

2. I'm not a fig-plucker, nor a fig-plucker's son, but ...

Reply to My Good Babushka (Original post)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 11:38 AM

Sep 2014

I'll pluck your figs till the fig-pluckers come.

Brother Buzz

(36,444 posts)

3. That's garbage, Man

Reply to My Good Babushka (Original post)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 12:06 PM

Sep 2014

The little red hen told the little red duck,
She said "You sure are ugly but you sure can dance."

I got a bow-legged mama that'll waddle like a duck.
She can't cook, but she love to fix chicken when her mama come over for Sunday brunch and hit her, she'll be like...

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