In fact, I think I feel a song coming on...
"If I could fight with the animals, just imagine it,
Scrappin' with a chimp in chimpanzee,
Imagine tangling with a tiger, wrestling with a cheetah,
What a neat achievement it would be!
If we could fight with the animals, learn their countermoves,
Maybe make an animal dojo,
I'd grapple elephant and eagle, buffalo and beagle,
Alligator, guinea pig, and flea!"
With apologies to Rex Harrison, and MacHeath who does this so much better...
Brilliant! (And thanks for the link - though I'd dispute the statement)
ReplyDeleteActually, you may have hit on the next big thing for Saturday night TV - "from the people who brought you 'Strictly X-Factor Find Me a Talented Nancy Boy on Ice', it's 'Celebrity Animal Dojo!'"
Any thoughts about pairings for upcoming bouts?
PS. May I suggest an amendment to the link so that musically-inclined readers don't have to wade through my interminable prose ramblings?
ReplyDeletehttp://newgatenews.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/song%20parodies
No seal of approval for the keeper's actions then.
ReplyDeleteI'll get my coat...
@Macheath
ReplyDelete"Any thoughts about pairings for upcoming bouts?"
Oh yes! 630+ for starters, question is ... can we lay our hands on that many savage beasts? It would lend a whole new meaning to the term "Political Gladiators" ;)
Well, at least it wasn't a Walrus. One is fat, ulgy, obese and with massive buck teeth... The other is from Glasgow. I'll get my coat... TTFN ;)
ReplyDeleteThey should have taken it to a whale weigh station.
ReplyDeleteRearranging the second verse improves it :
ReplyDeleteIf we could fight with the animals, learn their countermoves,
Maybe make an animal dojo,
I'd grapple elephant and eagle, guinea pig and beagle,
Alligator, flea and buffalo!
Was it only a few million years ago when entertainment based on captive animal violence first brought cave walls down, Julia?
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ReplyDeleteIf I could fight with the animals, Out-manoeuvre them,
That would be the perfect way to go.
I could steal a lion’s dinner,
Or maybe some day win a
Black-Belt in ko-a-la Tae-Kwon-Do!
"Actually, you may have hit on the next big thing for Saturday night TV.."
ReplyDeleteIt couldn't be any less watchable that the current lot, could it? And, like Fidel, I've got a little list!
"No seal of approval for the keeper's actions then."
*groans*
"Was it only a few million years ago when entertainment based on captive animal violence first brought cave walls down, Julia?"
Trot over to the continent & you'll find it never went away, MTG...