It sounds like a nursery rhyme!
Foolery Fowlery!
Foolery Fowl
A silly old fowler missing a thumb!
Foolery thought he was training a fowl,
Not realising the bird was really an owl!
When the owl got hungry at a quarter past eight,
It was poor Foolery's thumb that got ate!
go check out @rycharde's nonsense contest. you have two more days. That could even be an entry for it!