Wednesday, February 08, 2006

QotD: Chicken monkey shoes?

This is, at heart, a mathematical question. First, determine the members of each subset:

CHICKEN: common domestic fowl, cowardly, game of danger with first to lose nerve being loser

MONKEY: long-tailed primate, mischievous child, to tamper with something

SHOES: durable coverings for feet, devices that retard or stop the motion of an object, cases from which playing cards are dealt

Now, list possible interpretive combinations:

Feathered foot coverings for primates
Long-tailed feathery brakes
Device to prevent primates from cheating domestic birds during card games
Fatty polish for children’s leather foot coverings
Protective devices to keep practical jokestering hens from entering your yard
Device to prevent mischievous chicks from hogging all the cards
Feathered shields to cover holes your kid brother cut in your slippers
Devices to prevent hens from tampering with your breakfast
Devices to stymie domestic fowl card sharks
Foot coverings for long-tailed cowards
Devices to prevent frightened primates from hiding in your cupboards
Devices to prevent bullying of scaredy-cat primates
Whisper soft foot coverings to assist scared children in making mischief
Devices to curb fear in mischievous children
Devices to prevent cowardly mischief-makers from cheating
Magnetic foot coverings for stealthy discombobulation of hard drives
Magnetic-detecting footwear to identify cowardly tamperers
Devices to prevent cowardly sleight of hand
Footwear for primative games of nerve
Drugs to lower urge to engage in primative games of nerve
Device to prevent cheating in primitave sharpened-card throwing contests
Skid-proof footwear for children’s dangerous games of nerves
Drugs to prevent mischievous game-playing children from getting carried away
Devices to prevent children from dangerous cheating
Tying your opponent’s shoelaces together before race near cliff
Devices for preventing your opponent from tying your shoelaces together…
Devices to prevent tampering with high-stakes card games

If none of the possible combinations makes sense, one should next consider the hearing and/or spelling ability of the questioner. Did he mean one of the following, perhaps?

Check-in monk, he shoos
Chuck Inman kaschews
Choking Man Cashews
Chai can mean coy: choose
Chi kin moan key shush

Okay, I’m stumped. Anybody else have an idea what this sneakered furry-headed chicken-brain is after?

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