I’ve Been Dared
Posted By Randy on September 13, 2012
An ancient fertility god, decidedly NOT half cocked.
Surfing one of the bushcraft forums I frequent, I came upon a thread titled, “Half cock not working”. Even sight unseen I consider that sad on a number of levels.
Mrs. LFM’s reaction was, “I guess that’s a slight improvement on full cock not working….?”
Well, my Esteemed Friend Laurie Lacey learned of all this and dared … actually DOUBLE dared … me to turn the issue into a post here. He stopped short of the next step – the double Dog dare … but it wasn’t necessary. I don’t normally give a dare the courtesy of an ass sniff, given or received, but in Laurie’s case I’ll make an exception.
My reply is this limerick:
A strapping young fellow who talked
A far better game than he walked
Came to find that the ladies
All doomed him to Hades
When they learned that he went off half cocked.
Hi Randy,
By gawd, you did it! I didn’t “double DOG dare” you, because I didn’t think you’d need a double Dog dare, and you didn’t! 🙂
In any event, that there fertility god is the spittin’ image of my great, great, great grandpappy, Patrick Lacey, rest his soul. I did a double-take…grandpappy Patrick used to wear his hair that way….
You know Laurie, I’m not surprised to hear you had to do a double-take at that picture. It didn’t take much digging to find other historic references to Patrick Lacey and his legendary … hair.
Love the limerick and Diana’s reply.
Thank you Silvia. Diana is, without a doubt, a Mistress of Understatement.