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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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>>Same source?

No doubt.


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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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