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I just heard Beethoven's "Creatures of Prometheus" on the radio, which inspired this topic, reminding me of one of my favorites: PDQ Bach's "Preachers of Crometheus."
And then there is "Weed it and reap," from an organic gardening catelog.
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Cinderella slopped her dripper.
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..thus cleaving a lue for the prandsome hince.
I remember a radio classic forecast, Partly cloudy
with shattered scours.
And my whimsical favorite, Flutterby.
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Not sure that this is an actual Spoonerism, but those crispy fried thingies (made by Jay's, Lay's and others) are, in our house, call tatopachips.
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I was rushing around last weekend before leaning my Mom's to come home when I heard myself say that I would "pickley quack before dinner."
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A lack of pies.
Hey, I found a fun-looking word site, but it has ads on it. Am I allowed to post it? If not, people can PM for the link if they want it.
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I was wondering if, technically, a spoonerism could be deliberate. I didn't find an answer, but I did find this:
"Let me sew you to your sheet."
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"Let me sew you to your sheet."
So did I. Same source?
PS Jackie, I have no problem with commercial sites. You're the moderator, as it were! :-)
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"Let me sew you to your sheet"
That's not a spoonersim, Inselpeter. That's a metaphor.
Not a good metaphor. But a metaphor nonetheless.
Dontworriboutit. Things are slow tonite ...
... about as slow as some of the posts at this time of nite ... your post excluded, of course.
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Hey, plutarch, did your prescription run out?
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"moss" is a sock puppet (pseudonym) for an individual who has been banned by management from this site. Apparently, he has taken the trouble to find another computer from which to post. He uses other pseudonyms as well, including "plutarch" "carpathian" and several more. Apparently, he has seen fit to find another computer from which to post. It is generally believed that it is his intention to destroy this board.
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Au contraire, I agree with Insel - it's a spoonerism, and apparently one of the original Spooner-isms.
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As far as I am aware this is the original:
Dr Spooner was an Oxford don, and he was admonishing a wayward student:
"Sir, you have deliberately tasted two whole worms. You have hissed all my mystery lectures, and you have been caught fighting a liar in the quad. You will leave by the next town drain!"
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Sounds to me too polished to be the "real" original. Though you never can tell.
My impression (unsubstantiated) was that the original went, "Mardon me, Padam, you're occupewing the wrong pie. Let me sew you to another sheet!" There is a certain consistency to this hypothesis; he was the Reverend Spooner, remember...
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Reverend Spooner by Jerry H. Jenkins Reverend Spooner's words amuse; at times they scare, sometimes they tickle. He went riding in the pews upon his new well-boiled icicle. Queen Victoria came to town. He was pleased she'd graced the scene, so raised a toast to country, crown, and, of course, "Our queer old dean." Reverend Spooner was a charmer and his words flowed out like oil: He spoke in praise of England's farmers as "those noble tons of soil". Students' pranks aroused his choler. Grumpy Spooner, man of God, rebuked a pyrotechnic scholar for "fighting a liar in the quad". To a slacker, Spooner spoke in a voice of mournful texture: "Being tardy's not a joke: You have hissed my mystery lecture." He went on, in anger frowning: (How the hapless student squirms, reprimanded for his clowning): "You have tasted two whole worms!" He was always full of grace, polite to all he chanced to meet. To one who took the Reverend's place: "May I sew you to another sheet?" But fell upon his verbal lance when he claimed (this man devout): "When our boys come home from France, we will have the hags flung out." http://www.ablemuse.com/2k/jhjenkins-spooner.htm
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In the 1930s here was published/broadcast a series of short selections, some fairy tales and some Aesop's Fables, all Spoonerized: My Tale is Twisted, by Col. Lemuel Stoopnagle (pseud). (The practice was modernized decades later by political satirists The Capitol Steps - they called them "Lirty Dies"...but I digress.) Only a couple of years ago the Stoopnagle volume was re-issued and is still available - see http://www.stoneandscott.com/humor.asp. Your local library may have it too, or be able to get it for you. "The Mion and the Louse" and "The Pee Little Thrigs" are classics.
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This made me remember "Cinderella and her Sisty Uglers". http://snipurl.com/hljp
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Another reportedly original Spoonerism comes of his occupying the middle flat (set of rooms, actually) on a certain stair, with Professor Hedlam above him and Professor Bell below. You can see it coming! On being asked how he liked his digs, he replied, "Oh, it's very jolly, what with Bedlam above and Hell below!".
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Dear Randle ~
If this is not a true story, it should be.
Father Steve
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But it would certainly have been intentional.
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Probably my favorites of Richard Archibald Spooner's...well...Spoonerisms:
A half-warmed fish.
A blushing crow.
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A Spoonerism I remember from High School --
There was a science teacher named Dale Stuck, whom we called Stale Duck.
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I will often tell a patient, as we are reading to check a blood sugar, that they will be getting a little 'stinger fick'.
Really messed up one time and stopped using this after I questioned whether it had been done - using the above in past tense: "Did you get...
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formerly known as etaoin...
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Honestly. It was like a six year old girl, and both parents were there...
I wanted to crawl into a dole and hie.
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Larry !!! Wonderful to see you here again! I have missed you--that intelligence and wonderful sense of humor. Ooooohhhhhhhhh, kisskisskiss! 
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I'm not as drunk as some thinkle peep I am !
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Reminds me of a similar version: a motorist is accosted by a gentleman in blue uniform ~ he staggers on getting out of his car, burps, loooks sheepish and says "I peg your bardon, officer, I'm not as thunk as you drink I am!"
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Honish offisher, I'm nod runk, I'm jus a liddle kid.
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Quote:
Larry !!! Wonderful to see you here again! I have missed you--that intelligence and wonderful sense of humor. Ooooohhhhhhhhh, kisskisskiss!
Back at ya Jackie!
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Guess I should have said..
Jack at ya Backie!
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Connoisseurs of spoonerisms may enjoy this one: http://ship-of-fools.com/Signs/blunders.htmlClick on the video link in the item about Blake Bergstrom, it's well worth the wait for the download.
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