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Tales from Exile – Peking Duck
You want 12 duck lady? You not so fat? How you eat 12?
You want frozen? Bad for ducks, not so good cold.
You want to fly with them? Lady these ducks are dead. Not flying again, eating.
No! You take duck to Africa? No duck in Africa?
Special dinner party on island?
You crazy lady.
Africa does that.
(A true story)
more flying ducks at Magpie Tales Thanks to Tess for the prompt.
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25 comments:
Why didn't I get an invitation! LOL
That's an amusing tale. And quite moving with the Africa reference.
Jamie.
Wonderful. Great response to the prompt.
oddly, I have a very old friend and his mother is living now in retirement on an island off the West Africa coast. People go there for a weird kind of tourism since it was a main staging area for the slave trade. This is only odd for the simple reason I am still impressed with finding this friend after losing contact with him in 1954.
This made me smile. The dialogue is priceless - 'Lady these ducks are dead. Not flying again, eating.'
This poem is filled with warmth and the experience priceless. I love it!
Quite a conversation. Excellent.
I felt as though I was eavesdropping, here.
So witty as real conversations often are.
Perfect ... Martin is right, felt like I might have been standing right next to you!!
Great stuff! Great patter! Plenty UK natives speak like worse English than that, like, y'know, innit?
ha. a little communication break down maybe...was fun pe(e)king in on the conversation...smiles.
Oh God! Thank you for hitting me at the right time with a good laugh....LOVE!!
Perfect!
Well, you certainly put the right spin on this one..thank you!!
Love this..I felt like I was standing next to you in this conversation..great job!
Great take on the image! I loved the intertwining misunderstandings of the conversation.
lovely wordplay.
how creative you are, smiles.
Excellent write!
Anna :o]
What repartee!
Smiling... Clever take on the prompt.
very clever! love the dialogue!
Thanks for the smiles...love that it's a true conversation...
I'd love to visit. This, I have to see with my own eyes! :D
Cheers,
Arnab Majumdar on SribbleFest.com
So cute - great dialogue! Reminds me of my days with my Korean girlfriend, Ki Oh ... "Yoo my elephant, remember eversing and loyal forever..."
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