#:-) Earlier this evening my sons were calling out tongue twister rhymes to each other. So I decided to teach them the rhyming game "One fat hen". Trouble is I can't remember it all. I learnt it whist in the military, its a drinking game that goes in rounds, with forfeits for errors ((mistakes, hesitation, stammers, mispronunciation etc). Great fun, especially if played slightly worse for wear. (I hasten to add my sons and I weren't playing for forfeits, they're only 16 & 11yrs!)

The rhyme as I remember it goes;

1 fat hen,
A couple of ducks,
3 brown bears,
4 running hares,
5 fat females fixing for a fight,
6 cocky sock cutters,
7 sheet slitters, happily slitting sheets, upon the slitted sheet I sat,
8?
9?
10 pheasant pluckers, happily plucking pheasants, I'm not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant pluckers son, and I'm only plucking pheasants 'til the pheasant plucker comes.

:-) This game is great fun and it soon becomes impossible, because every fault gets you a forfeit (usually two or three fingers of a pint of beer) followed by another attempt when the round returns to you. It starts with the first line, repeated by all in the round, then the second line gets added to the first and repeated by the round, then the third line added to the first and second etc. I recommend you try it in a group of 5 or 6. But.... the point is, what goes in lines 8 & 9? I call on you all for help!

Only us english come up with fun things like your song,have a pint on me cheers

Here is a different version of this game:

One fat hen
A couple of ducks
Three brown bears
Four fast hares
Five fat females
Six simple Simons sitting on a fence
Seven stupid Sallys collecting sea shells by the sea shore
Eight elongated alligators elevated in an elevator
Nine nude nymphomaniacs kneeling near a nook
Ten two-ton tractor trailers towing tasty tomatoes to Tijuana tonight

I can type well but cannot do those games because of this New Jersey accent. I tend to slur and mumble.

I admire those that can though. It sounds like a cruel drinking game.