Goosie Theox

Once upon a time there was an ox named goosie and a goose named goosie. They both lived in a stable on a farm. For many years there was much confusion in that barn because every time someone said goosie both the ox and the goose would respond. At first it was kinda funny and they started saying jinx when they responded at exactly the same time but after a while it just got annoying.

Early in 1997 the ox decided that he had had enough of the constant confusion and told the goose that something had to be done. The goose agreed. They first tried calling each other by different names but each one they chose seemed to have already been taken. They tried using moosie, duckie, chickenie, horsie, wagonie, bacteriaie, goatie, sheepie even the mouse in the houseie but they were already being used by other animals about the farm. They tried calling the ox ‘ox’ and the goose ‘goose’ but they both found that to be too impersonal. They even tried using different languages to say their names but it was difficult to form certain vowel sounds and the accents and varying intonation became more of a bother than a solution.

In mid July the goose decided to consult a large wise-yeast living in a neighbouring village. On hearing the problem the yeast turned his head for about ten and five-sixteenths seconds and turned back with a solution. He suggested that the goose be called goosie and the ox be called goosie-C as his last name was Cleveland.

The goose returned home and shared the yeast’s wisdom with the ox. On hearing it the ox thought, “What a large-yeast those names sound exactly alike” and told the goose that that silly proposition would never work. The goose was able though to coax the ox into trying it for just one week.

By the end of the week their problem was solved. With some effort the names became easily distinguishable. They both learned lessons of patience and attentiveness that assisted them greatly in the following school term.

After crossing that hurdle they began calling the ox ‘Theox’ pronounced ‘théo’ and the goose ‘Richard Young Gernagen’ because apparently he thought it sounded distinguished. This worked out fine actually and they lived happily ever till they both died of natural causes just after the ’98 World Cup.

“never call a ox a moose and sometimes truss a yeas”