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Friday, April 8, 2011

Bekerk

Oh no, not you again!

I can't think of any segues I can use in this situation. (This is my segue)

We're getting chooks sometime soon. Yay! Mum tells me that we will be receiving two black chooks, one brown and a white.

I was flicking through my thesaurus, trying to find good names for them. Mum came up with 'Ebony" for one of the black ones and "Snow" for the white. I thought of "Ginger" for the brown one and it took us a while to think of a name for the other black one. "Black-hole?" "Pitch?"
And then I looked up black in the thesaurus and 'Jet black' was on the page so I suggested "Jet". And for a while they were good names. "Ebony", "Jet", "Ginger" and "Snow".

We were sitting at the dining table (for a change) and eating dinner (Burger patties in burger buns with sliced tomato and lettuce and cheese and mayo and BBQ sauce!). I was still going through my thesaurus and suggesting words.
"Tubby?", "Speedy?", "Cold-blooded?", "Pitiful?"

I found a page and said, giggling, "Lethal, Fatal, Deadly and Malignant?"
We liked them.
Then Mum went on to listing big cat names. "Puma, Panther, Snow-leopard? Tiger?"
We liked them too.

So Mum said that we should have a 'theme' for all the chooks, I said we could have half a theme and half another theme.

Eventually, we settled on "Lethal, Fatal, Puma and Snow-leopard"

Carpe Diem dudes and dudettes,
Catherine ;)

2 comments:

  1. bekerk!

    daddio here, segueing into your post, or maybe sashaying...

    good luck with the chooks. Personally, I am over chooks, having cared for them, enjoyed them, cursed them, chopped them over the years. I still think our brood of Ivy, Dot, Gretch and Freda were the best names.
    I suppose you could try aircraft names? Mirage, F-111, Spitfire, Tomcat?

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  2. Ha ha, I think that's a great idea. I like
    "Spitfire" and "Tomcat"

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