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SONG CHALLENGE WINNER!
The Song Challenge:
Here we go again, dear Challenge!rs -- In celebration (not!) of yet another bloody slab leak under my new house
(ah, the fond memories of jackhammers come flooding back to me . . .), I've picked a story about love,
relationships, money, law enforcement, and toilets. So, roll up your pant legs, sharpen your crayons, and unwind
the TP to write your best song about -- The Love That Bites The Big One: Police in North Platte,
Nebraska, have a case with bite. They were called to the home of a 55-year-old woman who dropped her
false teeth in the toilet, after she had been partying and drinking with her boyfriend. The toilet backed up
and the boyfriend called a plumber. The plumber charged $50 to retrieve the dentures, which the boyfriend
paid. But the boyfriend refused to give the teeth to woman until he was paid back. That's where the cops
come in. The woman called police, saying she didn't have the money and couldn't eat without her teeth.
Police say they sat the two down and had the pair work out deal. She signed an IOU and he gave back
the choppers.
Betty's Locked in the Loo by derrymacash
(To the tune of "Three Old Ladies Locked In The Lavatory")
CHORUS:
Oh dear, what can the matter be?
My girlfriend's false teeth are blocking the lavatory
They've been wedged since midnight on Saturday
We knew only too well where they were
At nine in the evening we started to boozing
There was plenty of choice and plenty of choosing
Our grip on reality we started losing
The night was becoming a blur
CHORUS
At ten by the clock she was feeling quite hammered
Becoming a mess, she stumbled and stammered
Of myself increasingly growing enamoured
But her courtship was lacking in flair
CHORUS
Eleven o'clock found her totally scuttered
She snorted and grunted, staggered and stuttered
The sort of a woman you'd find in the gutter
And of whom you'd incline to beware
CHORUS
At midnight my floozie was green round the gills
Her marathon gargling had rendered her ill
She made for the toilet, it was no time until
I heard her retching in there
CHORUS
When she emerged, looking pale, drawn and sweaty
I slurred from my seat, "What's up with you, Betty?
Facially you are looking less pretty.
What's been happening in there?"
CHORUS
She opened her mouth and I fathomed the reason
For the change in her looks, which was very displeasing
Her cheeks had collapsed, for she had no false teeth in
Her gums were all barren and bare
CHORUS
Her dentures dislodged with the force of her spew
And now they were wedged firmly stuck in the loo
We both tried to free them but nothing would do
The plumber was called in despair
CHORUS
On hands and on knees he delved and he hoaked
Through a mound of sick and a gallon of boke
But the bill he presented, I thought it a joke
I suggested the price was unfair
CHORUS
"Unfair?" said the plumber "I've earned every buck.
Without my assistance you'd now be well stuck.
Just pay me the reckoning and off I will go
Sort out the owings with her"
CHORUS ad nauseam (literally)