She picked up her coat and went out.
She picked up her shopping at the shop.
She picked up her boyfriend in her pickup.
She picked up some Spanish while on holiday.
He picked up a new girlfriend and a strange illness.
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The cat got on well with the Hobbit.
Only sometimes, did the cat have to get on about dinner.
The cat was good at getting across the idea of hunger.
And could get by with only four meals a day.
He set off on an adventure.
Then bad weather set in.
So he set up a tent.
But rain set off a mud slide.
This was a set back.
But it didn’t stop him
from setting forth again.
He knocks off and goes to the pub.
He is soon knocking back pint after pint.
He staggers and knocks over a bar maid.
She tells him to knock it off.
He tells her she looks fat or knocked up.
She knocks him out.
Women have little hands for stamping out biscuits.
Factories have machines for stamping out bits and pieces.
Ducks have webbed feet for stamping out matches.
Elephants have big feet for stamping out burning ducks.
Smart people have a penguin called Tux to stamp out defective Windows.
The fat woman bears left.
The hungry bear bears right.
The far woman bears away.
The hungry bear bears down.
The fat woman can not bear to think what will happen…
when the hungry bear bears down with…
bare bear claws and bare bear teeth.
The mum lets her kid off at school.
The kid lets off stick bombs in the classroom.
The teacher catches the kid but lets him off, after a warning.
He picks out a pub.
He picks up his beer.
He picks a table.
He picks up a bird.
(If he gets lucky and is not to picky)
The teacher sticks up the questions on the blackboard.
The good student sticks up her hand.
The bad student just sticks out her tongue.
He did her out of her inheritance.
She did him in.
Then did him up like a turkey.
But she had to do without the stuffing.
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