Cock Fighting…..

I hadn’t planned to use this picture for anything other than next year’s certificate to the winner of “Chewy Chicken” a game that encompasses everything great about an impromptu backyard gathering with friends.

Then, this afternoon, two of my daughters were playing a game of ball down our hallway, watching it bounce uncontrollably and hit two framed pictures.

Hanna yelled, “Holy Cock!”

I asked her to repeat herself and she did, as matter-of-factly as the first time.

She looked at me and said, “What? I made it up.”

She knew she would be in trouble if she had said, “Holy Crap” but “Holy Cock” was an innocent, albeit worse, frustrated shout-out than the former.

When our friend leapt in the air, his first attempt to blindly catch a dog’s chewy chicken toy, winning him a thousand dollar bet and the envy of every man drinking beer by the pool that day, I can’t imagine a scream more befitting than “Holy Cock!”

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