The Genetics of Colour in the Budgerigar and other Parrots




Green Egg on His Face

Author: Dale Connelly



The Bubba of Scuz

and the Bimbo of Loo
were sharing a pizza
with nothing to do.

They sat and they talked;

though but little was said.
So they dabbled in
bumblefunumpus instead!


(which cannot be explained,

and is never polite;
whether done by day,
or darkness of night)

But the Bubba of Scuz

was a Loyalty Scout
which meant that, with Bimbos,
funumping was out.

For Loyalty Scouts

(most unusual of breeds)
think telling the truth,
the best of good deeds.


If ever you slipped

into trouble so deep,
you thought a good lie
was the best way to keep

your brains in your head

and your seat in your pants,
a Loyalty Scout would say
“Don’t take the chance!”

But a Splonger named Ken

had been watching the glade
where the Bubba and Bimbo
funumped in the shade.


“At last!” said the Splong

(a repubnacious sort’a guy)
“Now I have what I need,
to entice him to lie.”

The Bubba of Scuz

was then pressured to tell;
of the things he had done,
in the glade by the dell.

“Did you yert with palookas?

Or miff some goopats?
I heard that you fleegered
a blooper with gnats!”


“I’ve done no such thing,”

said the Bubba of Scuz,
“those just aren’t the things
that a Scuz Bubba does.“

“But what about Bimbos”?

enquired the Splong,
“Funumping with Bimbos
is equally wrong !”

“I never funumped

with the Bimbo of Loo;
if you say that I did,
what you say isn’t true.”


Except that it was ! !

Bringing Bubba up short,
when the Splonger named Ken
made his final report.

So take this advice

when you're feeling ashamed;
stick to the truth
or you’ll wind up defamed.

The Loyalty Scouts

will muster you out;
your good friends will wonder
what you’re all about.


And history’s scribes,

remembering you,
will skip all the good
you endeavored to do.

Like the Bubba of Scuz

who, ’til history’s end,
will be linked to his Bimbo
and the Splonger named Ken.



Copyright © Dale Connelly, 1998


This is an example of what is to be found at the Dr. Seuss parody pages, which can also be reached from the main Dr. Seuss Web Page. Like any good transcriber, I’ve taken liberties and made some small ‘improvements’ in the sure knowledge that this is an age old tradition not to be forsaken lightly.

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