Whilst On My Visit To Edinburgh

[LochNessMonster]

Took my friend to Edinburgh museum on Chamber Street yesterday and when walking past stuffed animals I turned to my little nephew and pointed to a bird on display and said do you know what that bird is called ?

He replied No ?

I said its a OHJA OHJA bird from Mexico, and it was the only bird that could successfully land on a cactus tree?

Had to explain later that I was teasing him. :-)

[DTCwordfan]

"I'm currently dating a couple of Edinburgh anorexics. Two birds, one stone."

[Obiter]

Well done Slapshot (may I call you Slapper?) I cannot award you best answer simply because I am not the OP (forgot about that when I posted) but if I were,your name would be up in lights.

[DTCwordfan]

"I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday to Aberdeen. I'll tell you what, never again."

[seadogg]

"She was aye a virgin till seventeen,
No mean feat in Aberdeen".

[Obiter]

Four and twenty virgins came down from Inverness,
But when the ball was over there were four and twenty less.

[puternut]

Saw the ooooo-CHRIST bird there too

This little bird id only three inches long but lays five inch square eggs whilst chirpping 'ooooo-CHRIST.

[Ken4155]

Slapshot, last time i heard it, it went like this; "Roll up, roll up. Come and see the winky w*nky bird. Every time it winks, it w*nks. Madam! Stop throwing sand in the bird's eyes."

[Obiter]

Yes, there are different versions, but the song always began, "We're off to see the Wild West show". This is just one of the bawdy ditties we used to sing in the RAF back in the 60s. I used to be able to recite the whole of Eskimo Nell, though I couldn't do it now.

[Slapshot]

Yup.... good old rugby songs

[Obiter]

Some of the funniest, and cleverest, were those in limerick form, which were numerous. I can't tell them on here but you know the king of thing I mean. They would often start along the lines of...

"There once was a lady from Ealing..."

[Obiter]

For "king" read "kind".