The Parrot
and the Pussycat
went to Antarctica Estonia Helsinki
In a beautiful pea green plane boat.
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I, Editor by Henry Gee
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The Parrot and the Pussycat
- Date:
- Tuesday, 11 Aug ust 2009 - 12:31 UTC
They took some honey, and
not nearly enoughplenty of money,
Wrapped up in afailed grant applicationfive pound note.
The Parrot looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
‘O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!’
Pussy said to the Parrot, ’Focusing more attention on growth histories of individuals would provide a better position to understand the processes constituting phenotypic shifts in the age and size at maturation and help in disentangling environmentally induced plastic changes in maturation from those caused by evolutionary responses to fisheries induced selectionYou elegantcarrotfowl!
How charmingly sweet you sing!
O let us be married! too long we have tarried:
But what shall we do for a ring?’
They sailed away, for a year and a day,
To the landof Mordor, where the Shadows Liewhere the Bong-tree grows
And there in a wood aPenguinPiggy-wig stood
With a ring at the end of his nose,
His nose,
His nose,
With a ring at the end of his nose.‘Dear Pig,
the analysis of mark–recapture data is undergoing a period of development and expansionare you willing to sell fora quarterein pfennigmarkkafive new penceone shilling
Your ring?’ Said the Piggy, ’oinkatishooI will.’
So they took it away, anddisinfected itwere married next day
By thePenguinTurkey who lives on the hill.
They dined on
cat foodmince, and slices ofdead micequince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
Andpaw in winghand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon, The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.
Last updated: Tuesday, 11 Aug 2009 - 12:31 UTC
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Comments
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Henry- Good story (or is crazy poems; or song ex-battery chicken)and nice pics. Put the cat’s head in the owl is difficult to obtain this hybridization.
Finland, Finland, Finland!
It’s the place where I want to be!
a fitting tribute, Henry! Nice work
We like the moon.
That is all.
P.S. That Streisand poster scares the bejeezus out of me.
Richard- Apparently the monkeys: “We like the Moon”, they seem to be embalmed.
Excellent
eulogywork HG!Congrats to both lovebrrds!
I think I’m going to cry.
Seriously.
It’s lovely, Henry.
Dr Rohn, you’re just a big softie. That’s what you are.
How very, very cool!!!
Thank you, Henry. That’s typically generous of you, and hilarious to boot. We did discuss rings, but didn’t think of that one.
The beast hasn’t been told yet – but I’ll have to have a work with him: it looks like he’s been selling his rights to a NY pleasure ship company:
We’ll have to renegotiate his allowance.
Never mind the Streisand pic, that blonde girl in the, er, knickers – whoever she is – that’s scary.
Lovely post, though, Henry, and highly appropriate (wipes tear from eye). Best wishes to the lovely couple, and although you are right to eschew the one ring to rule them all (foolish under the menagerial circumstances), maybe a catbird circlet with pictorial (sans Gollum) engraving will come into its own one of these upcoming days or months.
Bob and Grrl – I’m really, really so very happy for you both. And Mrs Gee is too. so there.
And the sweet parrot married with the pussycat:
Born a nice son named grrhara
and,
The sun, sun iluminate
in the sweet morning with the clear sky.
The sun, sun iluminate in the
sweet morning with the clear sky.
These three danced to the morning light.
yes!!
iluminateis illuminate, sorry.Have you finished yet, Alejandro?
Yes Henry, I has finished, ¿why you asking me?, or perhaps too late in realizing the errors of English grammar
spelling. Is good the end of history, Henry.awww, how sweet, henry! update about rings: we do have rings now. they are plain bands made of hematite, which is (of course) magnetic. kinda cool in a geeky sport of way. pics will be posted, although not for the next 24 hours, at least since my guy is leaving me alone in the states tomorrow and returning to finland to pack up and move to germany. cry
I’m hoping Grrl will let me take my camera when I leave. Anyone else think I’m being unrealistically optimistic?
Incidentally, for those of you going to LondonIsSoBrazen09 this week, Arikia Millikan was the official witness for the event, so you can get first-hand news from her.
How does The Beast feel about sharing his new home with avian buddies?
How does The Beast feel about sharing his new home with avian buddies?
Well, The Beast has been off pondering again…
I haven’t told him. I suspect he’ll be delighted until the first time he gets bitten.