I argued with the caption committee about this, but Leonidas won last week's caption contest. I felt that Leonidas's entry didn't properly explain the baby in the bathwater. The decrees of the competition committee must be obeyed. So congrats, Leonidas.
Allen,
ReplyDeleteThere was NO water in that tub! The giant ferret drank it all?
And you thought the union between the Montagues and Capulets was strange...
ReplyDeleteFirst verified case of crabs.
ReplyDeleteWhen they said you were a jumbo shrimp I naturally thought ...
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ReplyDeleteGives a whole new meaning to the phrase, "She'll have the lobster."
ReplyDeleteThe Naiad and the Nephropid
ReplyDelete(A lost Lewis Carroll poem)
Once there was a sweet Naiad
Living near the sea
The Naiad spied the Nephropid
Skittering with glee
The Nephropid was red as blood
The Naiad white as snow
The Naiad led him to her bed
The seeds of love to sow
I think we have a winner with Procrustes...
ReplyDeleteA'la Emily Dickinson - or sung to the tune of "Yellow Rose of Texas"...
ReplyDeleteThere was an English Lobster,
Who swam to the French Shore.
He crawled his way to Paris
and bought himself a whore.
She took his lobster wallet,
it was stuffed with Ol' Swiss Francs.
Because she don't take Euros now,
due to red ink of the banks!
Or... If you don't like that, how bout this classic?
ReplyDeleteFrench Hooker: "So, what's worse than lobsters on your piano?"
Ed McMahon: (laughing) "I don't know. What is worse than lobsters on your piano?" (laughing)
French Hooker: "Crabs on your organ!"
Tom Shaughnessy on drums: "bah dump dump!"