Why Kick a Moo Cow?

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Shelley Hansen
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Re: Why Kick a Moo Cow?

Post by Shelley Hansen » Thu Jul 05, 2018 7:13 am

Well spotted, folks ...

Stephen actually wrote this poem after Catherine made a comment while we were having fun with poems based on descriptive place names in Australia ... see earlier posts from a week or two ago (Dunedoo, Nevertire, Blowhard, etc ... )

She mentioned it would be hard to top this particular NZ place name ... and of course, Stephen couldn’t resist :D

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Re: Why Kick a Moo Cow?

Post by Neville Briggs » Thu Jul 05, 2018 5:54 pm

I enjoy reading word plays. I think that poetry is, to a great extent about word plays.

There is, of course, no such New Zealand town as Waikikamukau. It is a generic name similar to the Australian remote place of Woop Woop or the famous Black Stump.
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Re: Why Kick a Moo Cow?

Post by Stephen Whiteside » Thu Jul 05, 2018 8:29 pm

Thanks, Jeff.

Is that right, Neville? I wondered about that.
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Re: Why Kick a Moo Cow?

Post by Neville Briggs » Fri Jul 06, 2018 7:44 am

That's it Stephen. Jim Haynes uses the Australian version of the pun bush town name ; Weelabarabak .
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