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Thread #70195   Message #1196232
Posted By: Joe_F
28-May-04 - 06:12 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells...
Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells...
I believe that "rubber baby buggy bumpers" is used as a sobriety test in some jurisdictions.

Though Theophilus Thistledown, the successful thistle sifter, in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb, see that thou, in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles, do not get any of the thistles stuck in thy tongue.