1 (edited by Peatle Jville 2022-08-13 01:38:19)

Topic: To Bar Or Not To Baa

A few months back when I was in a pub having a meal and a drink with a friend, we watched this drunken guy enter the bar. He staggered up to the bar in slurred words loudly quoting Shakespeare.  He was refused service as he left I noticed he had a jacket with the name of a sheep shearing contracting company on it. Just before he walked out the door, he yelled back to the barmaid that he loved her and she was welcome to shear a sheep with him any day. . I'm not sure if he meant share or shear a sheep. The other day while in town I saw this same man again hugging a parking meter telling it how much he loved it. Thinking about this man at home today these silly words entered my head.

        To Bar or not to Baa

Ha ha ha your not pulling the wool over my eyes.

Said the barmaid as she pulled him aside.

Shakespeare my dear you’ll never hear round here.

Blah blah bar.

Share sheep no get your own.

You’ve had enough its time to go home.

Your not a barber or a shearer dear.

I’m not serving you another beer.

Hurry up get out of here.

Be careful.

Don’t fall in the Ha Baa dear.

Blah blah bar.

Hurry up get out of here.

Sling your hook.

Go home feed your chooks.

Don’t let our boxer spoil your looks.

I’m not serving you another beer.

Hurry up get out of here.

I’m not the sort of girl you would like.

Hurry up get on your bike.

I’m not serving you another beer.

Hurry up get out of here.

Wipe that sheepish grin of your face.

Your no longer welcome in this place.

You’re leaving here in disgrace.

I’m not serving you another beer.

Hurry up get out of here.

No more bar or blah blah tonight.

Tomorrow morning you will know I was right.

So honey dear don’t get uptight.

Before the boxer here give's you a hard right.

Goodnight sleep tight.

Get home and have a bite.

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Genius     

Ask not what Chordie can do for you, but what you can do for Chordie.

3 (edited by TIGLJK 2022-08-11 11:22:45)

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Fantastic Peatle     

the poor guy - doesn't he know the weirdest part of gathering a sheep at a bar, is that on the way out the door - the rest will follow you ?  smile

you are so clever Peatle

really enjoyed it

Jm

Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but what your mind can imagine.
Make your life count, and the world will be a better place because you tried.

"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except only the the best." - Henry Van Dyke

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lol good one Peatle     

out of tune out of key and out of touch

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Pete i note a lot of your observations on life happen in bars?
really well written,theres a lot of sheep in NZ not all have wool.     

The King Of Audio Torture

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Brian
That last line is hilarious !     

Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but what your mind can imagine.
Make your life count, and the world will be a better place because you tried.

"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except only the the best." - Henry Van Dyke

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TIGLJK wrote:

Brian
That last line is hilarious !

yeah Tig we have this thing,blindly follow the leader down the toilet     

The King Of Audio Torture

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Thank you everyone for your comments.         
EB as long as the sheep don’t  follow a Judas Lamb they might live to see another day. Up until a few years ago at our local Meat Works here they use to have Judas lambs The judas lamb was a trained animal that calmly leads the other lamb s into the slaughterhouse. The Judas lamb gets to live another day where as the others don’t.  If people were to put a sheep in control of their country, no doubt  it would  be called a dictatorsheep.

As to your question EB about me writing many of my observation in bars hopefully I have also written a good amount about people I see in all sorts of other situations, Though I suppose from an observational view point society-at-large and its big diversity of people many of whom go to bars makes plenty for me to write about.. Society at large is often represented well as a microcosm in the patrons and staff, at bars. I find bars on a good night have people there from all different backgrounds and interests and beliefs. The way people behave after a few drinks can also be interesting. Bars attract everyone from good to bad people. Characters who are there because they are having a bad night or just passing through or there for many other reasons. Millions of different back stories have they. Interactions with a stranger at a bar can often quickly give us cues about their inherent morality. In those bar situations around strangers, I tend to be on my guard but still taking it all in. People watching is fun you just got to be subtle when doing it. In a restaurant or a coffee shop or whatever it's a different way of socializing or behaving to what people do in a bar. People do subtly check each other out in in situations other than in bars but outside that pub environment people tend to stick to themselves more or their group giving me less to write about.     

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over the last 53 years (since I was old enough to drink...legally) I've spent a lot of time in bars but not one funny story comes to mind. I've seen fights and a lot of smooching and near the knuckle things. But I must tell you about an incident that happened today.

It all began two weeks ago when some idiot smashed my sons rear window on his car. So, the guy turns up to replace the glass and slams the tailgate so hard it jammed so it wouldn't open. ten days later it was taken into the garage for repair. two days ago I took Lee to fetch his car and he drove it home. Today I get a call to say his car wont start. He calls the garage, a fitter comes out and says it's not the battery, scratches his head and leaves the scene! Lee checks you tube and finds a video that tells him how to cure the problem, I get a call and he asks if I could bring a socket set to disconnect the battery which will re-set everything. I go over to find he's opened the bonnet (hood) and taken the negative lug off, and stripped the thread in the process. So, following the instructions I said let's see if that's sorted it? I replaced the lug and there was a click. Lee went to open the door to find it was locked. Where's the key he asked of his wife (normally the brains of the outfit) I left it in the ignition, locked inside the car!!! A helpful passer by suggested getting a wire and looping it around the handle inside the car or calling a locksmith which would cost around £200...nah! We struggled for an hour but failed to get the wire to loop around the handle. The only other solution was to smash the quarter light. Before doing that I said, have you got a spare key? nope. So a wrecking bar appeared and went through the quarterlight and the key was retrieved. The car started first time, so Youtube was right, but at a cost of close to £500! I came home and told Ann that those two are a wonderful couple but a disaster zone.

Ask not what Chordie can do for you, but what you can do for Chordie.

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Cheers Piri, When I was younger I saw many a fight in bars but in recent decades bars here have become more civilized. Though out on the streets on a Friday and Saturday night there can be a bit of problem amongst  inebriated young people roaming  around the main popular city entertainment area. Out here in the area where I live we don’t have that problem.

I know of a couple who own a flash car  that has all the state of the art computerised systems. To open the doors you press a button no keys those sort of things. Husbands is a runner and what they do sometimes is drive to a spot by the sea and he gets out and runs home which is miles away. He drives them to the place where he  wants to run from gets out takes his key after a certain  amount of time the car doors lock with her in it. She sits in the passenger seat admiring the view of the sea for a while then decides its time to drive home. Reaches into her bag  only to find she has left her device that open the doors and does every else on the car at home. Try’s to open the door manually they wont open . Try’s to lower the windows using the down button they wont work either. No worries I will phone hubby she thinks  on the cellphone as he always takes that with him even when running. Opps left the phone at home with the key device also. She spends the next few hours in the car trapped trying to attract the attention of passers by and  also in need of a toilet. Finally she attracts the attention of someone with a phone who rings her husband. Husband sees the number calling on his phone he doesn’t know that number  so doesn’t bother answering the phone. The passer by then calls a tow truck company who tell her that they have to call the police first before they would come to the  car.  Police and tow truck come to the car, towie breaks into car under police supervision and let her out.  I wont mention about her bowel need to let go during this time but apparently the tow company wasn’t cheap and also the other costs around them breaking into their car afterwards.     

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The more toys you have the more there is to go wrong! My last car had the works...keyless entry, windows roll up when you walk away as well as lock. Until one day the windows rolled down and wouldn't go up again. Luckily it was still under warranty. My present car is plain and simple, everything is manual. A pain sometimes when I have a hand full of amps but say lavvy?(toilet humour again)     

Ask not what Chordie can do for you, but what you can do for Chordie.

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I love the humour Piri . The complaint I hear most about owning vehicles nowadays is the ridiculous price of fuel,

Since I became an old age pensioner I got a thing from the Government called a Goldcard. That gives me free travel on all public transport buses and trains in the weekends and outside of workers morning and afternoon rush hour. Round here public transport is plentiful and I have been enjoying it. For years I never used public transport but now I do a lot. On the bus and trains you get to hear some interesting conversations and see some of the more eccentric people in life at times.     

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My orthopedic specialist this morning made me laugh with his wacky  sense of humour.

If you boil a funny bone it becomes a laughing stock that’s Humerus.     

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that my friend is a double dip, a real groaner. it's my type of humour and i can say from experience highly underrated!

eg; a dirty joke...man fell in the mud

Q: how many aeroplanes can you get under a Scotsman's kilt?

A: all depends on the size of the hangers     

Ask not what Chordie can do for you, but what you can do for Chordie.

15 (edited by Peatle Jville 2022-08-17 06:49:23)

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Cheers Piri you gave me a laugh with the wet and cold miserable weather we are experiencing down here in NZ today I needed a chuckle. My humour is sick and my jokes tend to make people groan rather than laugh.  I started off talking about sheep in my poem in the hope of being a little bit funny now in a desperate attempt to get a laugh on chordie, I will throw another sheep joke into the pot. A music joke from Billy Connolly.

What is the difference between a Scottish sheep farmer and a Rolling Stone Song?

"One says,  " Hey you get off my cloud!", and the other says, ' Hey McCloud, get off my ewe., "

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Am enjoying the jokes and poems keep them coming.
is a lambchop
a) a piece of meat
b)an over grown side burn
c)or a lamb being cut by an axe
there is not a prize if you get it correct.
a final decision will be made and no correspondence will be entered into.
no refunds!     

The King Of Audio Torture

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EB

My choice would be d) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzX4xK6jZaM   
  it's on " ewe" tube !
It's a " shear delight" to hear so many funny thing here.!

Did you know that there are three times as many sheep in Wales as there are people ?
They come in all sheeps and sizes !
You "herd" it here first !

What instument do  Jan and Peatle on Chordie like to play ?   A " ewekulele ".



you guys are all tooooo funny !  If you keep writing all these sheep puns you could win  the 2022  "Woolitzer" Prize !


Thanks for the laughs

Jim     

Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but what your mind can imagine.
Make your life count, and the world will be a better place because you tried.

"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except only the the best." - Henry Van Dyke

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great to see so many flocking here to reply and shear their humour     

The King Of Audio Torture

19 (edited by Peatle Jville 2022-08-18 04:37:08)

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Jim and Brian that was clever thank you for sharing your playful wit. Jim  I enjoyed the video also it brought back good memories.

lamb chop Shari Lewis side kick. I remember Lamb Chop giving advice to Shari about money. Lamb Chop said to her something along the lines of, every time you meet a girl called Penny think about coins. Every time you meet a man called Bill you think about  paper money notes. Every time you meet a man called Johnny think about cash.

Talking about cash while the farmers away  his sheep get into the Pizza business in this video .  Some kids stuff can be amusing to watch and sometimes I enjoy it more than the kids do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEbcZtoZNR8

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Peatle, that was great writing, loved it, very clever piece of writing.

As for the jokes, well done, made me laugh everyone. 

Tig, I used to love watching Lambchops as a kid, I still have a lambchops soft toy.

Peatle, that video clip was a hardcase too, a bit like you, I love some of the kids programs big_smile     

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21 (edited by Peatle Jville 2022-08-27 05:43:57)

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Cheers Jan great to see you back here after your South Island adventures I hope you have managed to avoid all the recent treacherous rainy condition down south and up here in the North Island. Thankyou for taking the time to read my poem and comment I think I'm a kid at heart  Maree and I get a  kick out of watching kids films and programmes. Today a knowledgeable young ten year old told me about underwater sheep at first I thought he was kidding me but they do exist and are called leaf sheep short video attached.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAe9zTpcIdo

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oh my gosh Peatle, I have never seen those before, they are like a snail without the shell.     

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Couldn`t resist putting this up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs5cGVl-Zto     

The King Of Audio Torture

24 (edited by Peatle Jville 2022-09-01 07:44:14)

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Cheers Jan they are interesting looking little creatures and I like the way their faces have a cartoon look.

EB that gave me a chuckle. Today the first day of Spring good to see all those cute newborn lambs running around the paddocks.  Here is a song we had to sing when I was at primary school about sheep shearing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plCTGKrhByk

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easybeat, that was real old school big_smile, reminded of me of the stuff we used to watch as kids at primary school.  The voice of the person speaking, was like all the old school documentaries when they spoke lol

Peatle, that was very much old school (as well) Kiwi shearing days, and I remember that song.  That dog was pretty amazing jumping those fences.     

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