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Tuesday, September 10, 2024

More "How Do You Who's Whos Hold Your Hooch...?"

     Much depends on the meaning of 'hold.' 

     I

"Be your rotgut rums or Ripples,
how d'you pooh-bahs tote your tipples...?"
Here's a man in black. Let's ask 
the haut-hydrated Johnny Cask:
     "Be your sauce, John, Schlitz or 'Scootch,' 
how do you Who's Whos hold your hootch...?
And might you moonshine render sterile...?"
Answers John: "Quiz Yogi Barrel."

     II

"However judgments you deduce, 
how do you jurists lug your juice...?"
"You, Sam...?" "A liter." "'lena...?" "Kegs." 
"You, Amy...?" "Ponies -- brims to dregs." 

     (More to come; work in progress) 

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