Y is for Yuri

is for Yuri

Yuri’s space trip

There was a famous spaceman called Yuri

who preferred his chickens à la tandoori

he went into the rocket

with some drumsticks in his pocket

and said, “these’ll do till Moon, even Mercury.”

His bosses said, “We don’t care a whit

how far you carry or how indeed you take it,

the protein’s okay high,

for beyond our deep blue sky

the problem, quite frankly, is how you shit.”

Have you ever wondered, given it some thought

how zero g affects pooing astronauts?

A different level of aim

is the name of the space poo game,

on no account must shit escape and float.

Please note that the above is wholly a product of the imagination and any resemblance to people or events are purely coincidental etc etc. 

The real Yuri’s flight lasted less than two hours and therefore shit and pee weren’t a burning issue.  However, the story goes that as he went to the launch, he apparently asked for a pee-stop and relieved himself on the back right-hand tyre of the bus that was taking him to the launchpad, which subsequently evolved into a ritual of epic proportions.  Astronauts follow it even today.  

Is it just me or does it strike you as well? how Yuri sounds like a truncated version of pee, and if this whole pee-stop thingy is somehow connected?  No? Okay, it's just me then.  Never mind.

Posted for the A-Z Challenge 2016