Chicken Licken
My mum occasionally brings this one up. When I was little my favourite book was ‘Chicken Licken’. So much was my inexplicable enjoyment of this particular tale that I would get my dad to read it to me almost every night before bed. Eventually though my dad got a bit sick of reading the same fucking story to me every night and so chucked it in the bin outside when I was at school one day. When I predictably went looking for it on the shelf that evening the old codger denied having any knowledge of it’s whereabouts, even going so far as to try to help me find it in order to cover his tracks properly. The sneaky bastard.

I have absolutely no recollection of any of this but I admire my dad’s parenting skills nonetheless.
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 13:08, 6 replies)

I drove my dad mad with it too
It was great when he used to read it to me, doing all the voices and being generally hilarious with it, but he confessed to me some years later that it had driven him round the bend as he'd had to read it so many times.

Fast forward to his 50th birthday & I handed him his presents, one of which was a copy of "Chicken Licken". I sat on his knee and made him read it to me. He did. It was still brilliant.
(nasalhair The Twix guy!, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 13:22, closed)

You too...
Perhaps there are others too then, there must be something about that book.

That's a bit gay though you sitting on his knee when you were all growed up and everything :P
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 13:34, closed)

Well...
It was a bit of a joke for his birthday & it made him laugh, so it was alright.
(nasalhair The Twix guy!, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 17:07, closed)

AS Chicken-licken was going one day to the wood, whack! an acorn fell from a tree


"Gracious goodness me!" said Chicken-licken, "the sky must have fallen; I must go
and tell the King."


So Chicken-licken turned back, and met Hen-len. "Well, Hen-len, where are you
going ?" said he. "I'm going to the wood," said she.


"Oh, Hen-len, don't go!" said he, "for as I was going the sky fell on to my head, and
I'm going to tell the King."


So Hen-len turned back with Chicken-licken, and met Cock-lock.


"I'm going to the wood," said he.


Then Hen-len said:' "Oh Cock-lock, don't go, for I was going, and I met Chicken-licken, and Chicken-licken had been at the wood, and the sky had fallen on to his head, and we are going to tell the King."


So Cock-lock turned back, and they met Duck-luck. "


Well, Duck-luck, where are you going?"


And Duck-luck said: "I'm going to the wood."


Then Cock-lock said: "Oh! Duck-luck, don't go, for I was going, and I met Hen-len,
and Hen-len met Chicken-licken, and Chicken-licken had been at the wood, and the
sky had fallen on to his head, and we are going to tell the King." So Duck-luck turned
back,and met Drake-lake.


"Well, Drake-lake, where are you going?"
And Drake-lake said: "I'm going to the wood."


Then Duck-luck said: "Oh! Drake-lake, don't go, for I was going, and I met Cock-lock, and Cock-lock met Hen-len, and Hen-len met Chicken-licken, and Chicken-licken
had been at the wood, and the sky had fallen on to his head, and, we are going to tell
the King."


So Drake-lake turned back, and met Goose-loose. "Well, Goose-loose, where are
you going?" And Goose-loose said: "I'm going to the wood."


Then Drake-lake said: "Oh, Goose-loose, don't go, for I was going, and I met Duck-
luck, and Duck-luck met Cock-lock, and Cock-lock met Hen-len, and Hen-len met
Chicken-licken, and Chicken-licken had been at the wood, and the sky had fallen on to
his head, and we are going to tell the King." So Goose-loose turned back, and met
Gander-lander.


"Well, Gander-lander, where are you going ?"


And Gander-lander said: "I'm going to the wood."


Then Goose-loose said: "Oh! Gander-lander, don't go, for I was going, and I met
Drake-lake, and Drake-lake met Duck-luck, and Duck-luck met Cock-lock, and Cock-
lock met Hen-len, and Hen-len met Chicken-licken, and Chicken-licken had been at the
wood, and the sky had fallen on to his head, and we are going to tell the King."


So Gander-lander turned back, and met Turkey-lurkey.


"Well, Turkey-lurkey, where are you going?"
And Turkey-lurkey said: "I'm going to the wood."


Then Gander-dander said: "Oh! Turkey-lurkey, don't go, for I was going, and I met
Goose-loose, and Goose-loose met Drake-lake, and Drake-lake met Duck-luck, and
Duck-luck met Cock-lock, and Cock-lock met Hen-len, and Hen-len met Chicken-licken,
and Chicken-licken had been at the wood, and the sky had fallen on to his head, and
we are going to tell the King."


So Turkey-lurkey turned back, and walked wiith Gander-lander, Goose-loose, Drake-
lake, Duck-luck, Cock-lock, Hen-len, and Chicken-licken. And as they were going along, they met Fox-lox. And Fox-lox said:


"Where are you going ?"


And they said: "Chicken-licken went to the wood, and the sky fell on to his head, and
we are going to tell the King."


And Fox-lox said: "Come along with me, and I will show you the way." But Fox-lox took them into the fox's hole, and he and his young ones soon ate up poor Chicken-licken, Hen-len, Cock-lock, Duck-luck, Drake-lake, Goose-loose,' Ganderdander, and Turkey-lurkey; and they never saw the King to tell him that the sky had fallen.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 17:13, closed)

Not quite...
The names were Foxy Loxy, Goosey Loosey, Henny Penny etc.
(nasalhair The Twix guy!, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 17:17, closed)

I barely remember it, to be fair.
It's just the mention of it made me think 'Didn't that have a really depressing ending?' and it seems it does.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 17:19, closed)