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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 4 1 2 3 4 Re: Let me sew you #146317 09/03/05 06:59 AM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC Hey, plutarch, did your prescription run out? TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Let me sew you #146318 09/03/05 11:18 AM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 10 R robert holland stranger robert holland stranger R Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 10 "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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Let me sew you #146319 09/04/05 12:29 PM Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 500 Northern Ontario, Canada E Elizabeth Creith addict Elizabeth Creith addict E Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 500 Northern Ontario, Canada Au contraire, I agree with Insel - it's a spoonerism, and apparently one of the original Spooner-isms. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Let me sew you #146320 09/11/05 07:15 AM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Capfka Pooh-Bah Capfka Pooh-Bah Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok 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!" Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Let me sew you #146321 09/11/05 11:34 AM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City I inselpeter Pooh-Bah inselpeter Pooh-Bah I Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City Too's where?! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter historical uncertainty #146322 09/11/05 01:23 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,713 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,713 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA 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... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: historical uncertainty #146323 09/11/05 02:18 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA 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 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Commercial plug (but I think they deserve it) #146324 09/11/05 04:02 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,713 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,713 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Commercial plug (but I think they deserve it) #146325 09/11/05 06:54 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA This made me remember "Cinderella and her Sisty Uglers". http://snipurl.com/hljp Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: historical uncertainty #146326 09/12/05 10:53 AM Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 2 R Randle Wilson stranger Randle Wilson stranger R Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 2 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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