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Thread #70195   Message #1196921
Posted By: Mark Cohen
30-May-04 - 12:55 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells...
Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells
Padre, I learned more verses to that one:

One slick snake slid up the stake
And the other slick snake slid down

One black bug bled blue-black blood
And the other black bug bled blue

One proud plover played ping-pong and poker
And the other proud plover played pool
(that one was mine)

Don't forget Jerry Lewis' announcers' test

One hen
Two ducks
Three squawking geese
Four Limerick oysters
Five corpulent Porpoises
Six pairs of Don Alverzo's tweezers
Seven hairy Macedonian's in full battle array
Eight brass monkeys from the ancient sacred crypts of Egypt
Nine apathetic sympathetic diabetic old men on roller skates with a marked propensity to procrastination and sloth
Ten lyrical spherical diabolical denizens of the deep who hall stall around the corner of the quay of the quo of the quivery, all at the same time

(That's almost exactly the way I learned it from Chris Gaynor in ninth grade!)

Aloha,
Mark