# "My Old Man" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 3, 2022, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-man/967349 "2022-07-03T19:49:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2022, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-man/967349/1 "2022-07-03T19:49:11Z")
"My old man’s a cotton-pickin’, finger-lickin’ chicken plucker. Next lines, boomers - ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2022, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-man/967349/2 "2022-07-03T19:54:49Z")
And his old man was an over the road trucker. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeysBrother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@MonkeysBrother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeysBrother)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2022, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-man/967349/3 "2022-07-03T20:20:36Z")
What do you think about that? I think you better be careful! Go, Dickie and Tommy. ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-man/967349/4 "2022-07-05T11:45:04Z")
I couldn’t resist posting this - Try saying it out loud. _I’m not a pheasant plucker, I’m a pheasant plucker’s son_ _I’m only plucking pheasants 'till the pheasant plucker comes._ _Me husband is a keeper, he’s a very busy man_ _I try to understand him and I help him all I can,_ _But sometimes in an evening I feel a trifle dim_ _All alone, I’m plucking pheasants, when I’d rather pluck with him._ _I’m not a pheasant plucker, I’m a pheasant plucker’s mate_ _I’m only plucking pheasants 'cos the pheasant plucker’s late !_ _I’m not good at plucking pheasants, at pheasant plucking I get stuck_ _Though some pheasants find it pleasant I’d rather pluck a duck._ _Oh plucking geese is gorgeous, I can pluck a goose with ease_ _But pheasant plucking’s torture because they haven’t any grease._ _I’m not a pheasant plucker, he has gone out on the tiles_ _He only plucked one pheasant and I’m sitting here with piles !_ _You have to pluck them fresh, if it’s fresh they’re not unpleasant,_ _I knew a man in Dunstable who could pluck a frozen pheasant._ _They say the village constable had pheasant plucking sessions_ _With the vicar on a Sunday ‘tween the first and second lessons._ _I’m not a pheasant plucker, I’m a pheasant plucker’s mum_ _I’m only plucking pheasants 'till the pheasant plucker’s come._ _My good friend Godfrey is most adept, he’s really got the knack_ _He likes to have a pheasant plucked before he hits the sack._ _I like to give a helping hand, I gather up the feathers,_ _It’s really all our pheasant plucking keeps us pair together._ _I’m not a pheasant plucker, I’m a pheasant plucker’s friend_ _I’m only plucking pheasants as a means unto an end !_ _My husband’s in the forest always banging with his gun_ _If he could hear me half the time I’m sure that he would run,_ _For there’s fluff in all my crannies, there’s feathers up my nose_ _And I’m itching in the kitchen from my head down to my toes._ _I’m not a pheasant plucker, I’m a pheasant plucker’s wife_ _And when we pluck together it’s a pheasant plucking life !_ ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-man/967349/5 "2022-07-05T12:44:47Z")
That reminded me of this number by Seamus Kennedy about Sarah [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/UJAuHmapqwM/maxresdefault.jpg "Sarah, Sarah") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJAuHmapqwM) ---
**Author:** ![MonkeysBrother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@MonkeysBrother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeysBrother)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-man/967349/6 "2022-07-05T17:24:33Z")
…and a short version if anyone didn’t get the reference: [My Old Man - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6Uwz0NVi-Q) There are, of course, longer versions out there on YouTube. When I was a kid, one of the LPs in my parent’s collection was _The Two Sides of the Smothers Brothers_. I always loved their comedy (and their harmonies). ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-man/967349/7 "2022-07-05T20:40:48Z")
> [@bob\_2](#): > > I couldn’t resist posting this - Try saying it out loud. > > _I’m not a pheasant plucker, I’m a pheasant plucker’s son_… I ain’t a fig plucker, I’m a fig-plucker’s son. I’m just plucking figs 'til the fig plucker comes. I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit. Upon a slitted sheet I sit. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-man/967349/8 "2022-07-05T21:15:26Z")
Tom: My old man’s a negro, what do you think about that? Dick: Dad was not a negro. Tom: You’re a fascist! ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-man/967349/9 "2022-07-05T21:30:07Z")
I’m a thistle sifter. I’ve a sieve of sifted thistles and a sieve of unsifted thistles. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-old-man/967349/10 "2022-07-05T23:46:42Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/deCUnq63waI/maxresdefault.jpg "Mother Pheasant Plucker - A Song") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deCUnq63waI)