Showstopper. We struck it lucky on our last Las Vegas trip, There we saw an historic bit of showmanship, From our front row seat at Siegfried and Roy's We saw a Grand finale from those two old boys. They've entertained us all for untold years... So, now a touch less boyish than first appears; Note the lush leonine manes of layered dyed hair And those fixed faces, half botox, half Tupperware. As the big cats prowled their cages Roy rattled on, much as he's done for ages, The tigers bared their teeth, growling loudly 'Pussy cats in my hands' Roy thought proudly. I wonder, did Roy take his routine too lightly, pray? Perhaps the tiger wasn't feeling too bright that day? Call it overfamiliarity, call it a catastrophic oversight Whatever, Roy got a deep insight into a tigers underbite. After thousands of shows without an accident Into retirement, with wounded pride they went, The Mirage's management terminated their run Just because Roy entertained a bit of armless fun.
This tasteless offering was going to be for a short poetry prompt but it kinda sorta took on a larger life of its own. Perhaps, as Siegfried and Roy found, sometimes you can’t rein things in, it all starts to get away on us and before you know it everything’s running uncontrollably amok.
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Disarmingly funny, I must admit….
Though Roy probably had a (prosthetic) fit.
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Every good animal/magic act relies on a good hook to reel in the audience. After all his flourishes over the years surely Roy deserves a good hand now?
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I really did try mining the same vein with this comment, as with mistermuse above, but the clicks are just not happening in this instance. So we’ll just have to let your words glow on their own in the tainted but pretty afternoon sunlight… 😉
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Yeah, Roy was getting a bit long in the tooth- oops, a slip of the tongue…
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Oooh. Excellent pun with armless. 😀
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Sometimes an armless pun is a bit of a stretch, said Roy.
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