Help: Spoonerisms

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Apr 24 - 07:01 PM

Ladle Rat Rotten Hut

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Nov 11 - 10:25 PM

I nould mever fake nun of the Severedend Ruiner.

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: GUEST,Anon
Date: 26 Nov 11 - 01:03 PM

I'm not putting my name to this as I got into enough bother for it miss thorning.

My wife and I met another couple we knew and she gleefully told them 'I'm off into Boyes for a pair of boots' to which I couldn't resist adding, 'Yes and then she's off into Boots for a pair of boys.' and then made a quick retreat.

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: PHJim
Date: 25 Nov 11 - 10:02 PM

I recall hearing about a weatherman who was prone to spoonerisms. The writers would give him lines that they were sure he would screw up, but were disappointed when he read their description of a twister as a "great sucking funnel of wind" accurately.

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: paula t
Date: 25 Nov 11 - 07:25 PM

Guest Mrr,
Hope this is what you were looking for:

Un petit d'un petit S'étonne aux Halles
Un petit d'un petit Ah! degrés te fallent
Indolent qui ne sort cesse
Indolent qui ne se mène
Qu'importe un petit d'un petit
Tout Gai de Reguennes

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: Joe_F
Date: 25 Nov 11 - 07:07 PM

One must belong to a certain subsubculture (not this one) for full appreciation, but I think parts of it are of more general interest:

The Rev. Lunar Goes to the Stone Spar

There I was, starring in the band, hoping for an all-night fairy buzz but prepared to droop myself into a stinker.

Forcing myself thru the betting swaddies, I received a pope by the gruel table from a bright-assed tit. He was hottish, and delightfully scary. He asked for a match, so of course I said "Your bug & my mutt" as I set wire to his feed. "Man your grinders!" he moused, "if you want a hair to bug. This might be your nooky light."

I bent over to wet his favorite gear, but it was climbing toes. The top-tanked tarbender, gnashing his ripple flings, had mucked up the pigs and was making a queen sleep with a saggy rope. With an encouraging band on my hut, I found myself whoring for the dead.

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: Bert
Date: 25 Nov 11 - 12:50 AM

...and have the hags flung out...

But not in the roaring pain!

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: Leadfingers
Date: 24 Nov 11 - 08:36 PM

A Classic UK Spoonerised songs is here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPujYMAYY7Q

And these are the Lyrics ! :- http://www.leoslyrics.com/jasper-carrott/bastity-chelt-chastity-belt-lyrics/

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: GUEST,Guest - Frank
Date: 24 Nov 11 - 08:31 PM

The above is all mucking refarkable!

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: BTNG
Date: 24 Nov 11 - 05:16 PM

The Other Tales

Ali Theeva and the Forty Babs

Goldybear and the Three Locks

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: KHNic
Date: 24 Nov 11 - 05:02 PM

Or, indeed, a Cupid Stunt.

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: BTNG
Date: 24 Nov 11 - 05:00 PM

and there are some who can best be described as being a shining wit.

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: KHNic
Date: 24 Nov 11 - 04:32 PM

Kenny Everett's drag queen needs a mention as well.

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: BTNG
Date: 24 Nov 11 - 04:17 PM

and have the hags flung out

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: KHNic
Date: 24 Nov 11 - 04:12 PM

As Spooner himself said, let us toast the queer old dean.

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: BTNG
Date: 24 Nov 11 - 04:06 PM

Ahhh...but The Lord is a shoving leopard

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: KHNic
Date: 24 Nov 11 - 03:57 PM

There is always the difference between a poor marksman and t
a constipated owl.

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: Bert
Date: 24 Nov 11 - 10:02 AM

Well I call my grandkids 'boiled sprats'

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 24 Nov 11 - 06:35 AM

Well, whatever is done or said on this thread, please be sure it is done or said in a magnified dinner.

~M~

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: Kit Griffiths
Date: 24 Nov 11 - 02:47 AM

What shining wits we all are....

Subject: ADD Version: The Pea Little Thrigs
From: GUEST,The Cat That Ran Away With The Spoon
Date: 23 Nov 11 - 09:25 PM

Found at last!!


The Pea Little Thrigs
by Mark Fitzsimmons
Once there was a mig bomma sow who lived with her pee little thriglets on a big fog harm. They lived a line fife slopping with gorge and wallowing in the pud muddle and all, until one night when the sig pow took the pee little thrigs aside for a tearious salk. "Oink," she wide, creeping. "Oink, oink oink!" (Or, to verbaphrase her porridge, "Boys, you header bed for the yorest fonder before harmer Fank bakes macon!")

So a few dours before haybreak, the pee little thrigs set out to fake their mortune in the feep dorest. Now the lirst fiddle pig's name was Joe. Poe jig said, "I'm gonna build me a haw strouse," and he began strickin' up paw. The second piddle lig's name was Luke, and Puke lig said, "I'm gonna build me a hick stouse," and he began stickin' up pigs. Now the lird piddle thig's name was Dave. He was a mite barter than his smothers, earning him the name pigtickle prack. Pave dig said, "I'm gonna build me a hone and storter mouse," and he began erecting clocks.

Now I won't same to clay that streaving waw or sighing ticks is easy 'cause it tain't rue, but it sell of a hot limper than stortaring moans, and by the time Pave dig had the fox riled for his pyreplace, the other poo tigs were bun dildin' and tootin' for ruffles. "Look at pigtickle prack," the pool crigs laughed, "pettin' like a swig over his stig bones." But pigtickle prack had seen tolf wacks that day, and he wept kurking.

Eventually the hone stouse was done, and all bree throthers had dwellable livings. Pave dig never did tell the other poo tigs about the tolf wracks, so Poe jig was shighty mocked to wake up to the sounds of a walivatin' soof.

"Piddle lig, piddle lig, ket me lum in!"

"Not by the chuzz on my finny fin fin!"

"Then I'll larf and I'll barf and I'll hoe your blouse down!"

So the wolf larfed and he barfed and he hew the blouse down, whereupon Poe jig run off to Puke lig's house and broke his wother. That wungry holf was right behind. "Piddle ligs, piddle ligs, I wants two pat figs, I does!"

"Not by the muzz on my fuzzly fuzzle fuzz!" said Puke lig.

"Then I'll larf and I'll barf and I'll hoe your blouse down!"

So the wolf larfed and he barfed and he hew the blouse down. Loe and Juke freely reeked and run off to the hock rouse and dolted the bore. The wungry holf got there quite rick, but not nasty fuff.

"Piddle ligs, piddle ligs, undolt the bore!"

"Not by the mollicles on my fandible!" said Pave dig (who never missed a chance to use a wig bird).

"Then I'll larf and I'll barf and I'll hoe your blouse down!"

Pave dig just smiled and said, "Woe blay!"

So the wolf larfed and he barfed and he larfed and he barfed, till he was foo in the blace, with no effectable notice on the stock ructure. The wig bad bolf sat down to cogitate on this uneventful prediction, when he noticed the choking smimney. Not bein' a very wart smolf, he chimed the climney and dropped tail first into a boiling stot of poo.

That wolf earned his bass and just about everything else that day, since Pave dig clammed the slover on the poo stot, leaving the other poo tigs mealing in squirthful reverie. Pave dig turned to his overweight brothers and said, "Molf wheat is beaner than leef, and it would bepig you hooves to conduce your resumption of faturated sats." The very next day they started a diet of vegetabically grown organelles, and they began electing crocks for two new hock roams for Lo and Puke jig.

This storal has two morys: First, of course, induce your retake of atty facets. Secondly, never ever dime clown chokin' smimneys.

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: GUEST,The Cat That Ran Away With The Spoon
Date: 23 Nov 11 - 09:22 PM

My goodness! all these links! I have come into contact with Lattle Rat Rotten Hut many times before, and what you call "Rindercella" only as "prinderella" I too am looking for The Pree Little Thigs, and have yet to come across it. I don't believe that it has acctually been put online.

The Cat

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: Micca
Date: 18 May 00 - 06:41 PM

The classic Rev Spooner is when he was bawling out an Undergrduate at Oxford
" You have hissed all my mystery lectures and tasted two whole worms, you must leave Oxford on the next town drain"

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: Hardiman the Fiddler
Date: 18 May 00 - 06:32 PM

You could always do research at the libric pubbleburry! Hardiman

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: Bill D
Date: 18 May 00 - 04:54 PM

the 'classic' supposedly attributed to Spooner, one day in church...

"Mardon me Padam, you are occupewing the wrong pie, may I sew you to another sheet?"

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: MMario
Date: 18 May 00 - 03:56 PM

The strange part is this is more intelligible to me then some things that are written out in "dialect"

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: GUEST,Den at work
Date: 18 May 00 - 03:34 PM

This reminds me of the Two Ronnies sketch where they used letters and numbers instead of words. The skit took place in a restaurant and the characters spoke with heavy accents. As I remember it, it kind of went like, Customer: LO (hello)
Waiter: LO
Customer: F (have) U (you) NE (any) X (eggs)
Waiter: S V F X
Customer: F U NE M
Waiter: S V F M
Customer: N T
Waiter: S V F T
Customer: I 1 M N X N T
Waiter: M N X N T 4 1
Customer: S
It was quite a bit longer but memory fails you get the idea though. It was very funny. Den

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: Vixen
Date: 18 May 00 - 02:53 PM

Mrrzy--

I didn't know there was a *sequel*! Let me know the title, please, if you can find it!

I have another lovely little book called _CDB_ which is a picture book of conversational English whereby "CDB" becomes See the Bee.

MNX becomes ham and eggs. Ad nauseam. But amusing nevertheless.

Kids love these things, and contrary to many of their teachers' beleifs, I think it engenders an interest and enthusiasm for the games of language and communication.

Ahem. Of which folk music is such an essential part.

V scampers back to music, so's not to be too far off-topic...

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: TheOldMole
Date: 18 May 00 - 02:29 PM

A collection of fairy tales and Aesop's Fables done in Spoonerized form was published in the 50s as "My Tale Is Twisted," by Colonel Stoopnagel.

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: Mrrzy
Date: 18 May 00 - 01:40 PM

Vixen, have you seen the sequel to Mots d'Heures Gousses Rames? I have it somewhere, I'll dig it up if you haven't seen it so I can get you the title. I've also seen one somewhere that had, I think, Shakespeare or something in English but was written (in the style of Mots D'Heures) in Gaelic, so you had to read it out loud in Gaelic, which I can't read, to understand the English... if I can dig that one up, I'll post it, everyone ought to enjoy that one...

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: Vixen
Date: 18 May 00 - 08:43 AM

My Word, you're a cool bunch!

I've got both Ladle Rat Rotten Hut and Mot's Heures Gousses in the original!

Anybody a Willard Espy fan?

V

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: InOBU
Date: 18 May 00 - 08:06 AM

Good one Wit!
Larry

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: GUEST,Pop Halfwit.
Date: 17 May 00 - 11:11 AM

This is nothing more than an aside really and i can't offer any relevent info re: spoonerism songs. In Robert Morley's "Book of Bricks" there's a true story about a lady who tended to "spooner" and who nearly became a nervous wreck when she got a receptionists appointment in an outlet called "Country Craftwork".

Good luck with your search.

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: Saffron_Kerlilox
Date: 16 May 00 - 03:32 PM

I am tempted to recommend http://www.geocities.com/pantos_s/spoons.htm which is a fun spoon site with something on Dr W A Spooner but, alas, no spoonerism songs. Enjoy.

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: catspaw49
Date: 16 May 00 - 12:20 PM

Completely nuckinfutz.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 16 May 00 - 12:08 PM

Thanks, KT! Glad to know a (you don't want to know how old) memory still comes through so well! And as I asked on the other thread mentioning this, the one about Rindercella, does anyone know the bilingual ones, like Mots d'Heures, Gousses, Rames, including the famous Un petit d'un petit?

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: MMario
Date: 16 May 00 - 12:05 PM

or this site for a whole lot of this style writings.... http://www.justanyone.com/allanguish.html

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: KT
Date: 16 May 00 - 12:00 PM

try this site for Ladle Rat Rotten Hut....sorry ...I'm not up on how to do the blue clicky thing and have already procrastinated long enough about leaving for work......gotta run....

http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/ladle/

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 16 May 00 - 12:00 PM

OK, but this is from memory, so apologies in advance for departures from the original, which I am sorry to say I do not know to whom to attribute. I first encountered this on a wall at Roots and Growth, the hippie culture house where I went to college.

Ladle Rat Rotten Hut
Wants pawn term, dare worsted ladle gull hoe lift wetter murder inner ladle cordage honor itch offer lodge dock florist. Disk ladle gull orphan worry ladle cluck wetter putty ladle rat hut, end fur disk raisin pimple caulder Ladle Rat Rotten Hut.
Wan moaning, Ladle Rat Rotten Huts murder colder inset. "Hares sum burden barter end shirker cockles. Teak disk ladle basking tudor cordage offer groin murder hoes lion sicken bet. Dun stopper laudry rote, and yonder nor sorghum stenches stopper torque wet strainers!"
"Hoe cake, murder" reprisal ladle gull. Sew Ladle Rat Rotten Hut tucker ladle basking end stuttered oft. Honor weigh, disk ladle gull mitten anomalous woof. "Wail, wail, wail," setter wicket woof, "evanescent Ladle Rat Rotten Hut! Wares ore putty ladle gull goring wizard ladle basking?
"Armor goring tumor groin murder, hoe lifts honor udder sight offer florist," reprisal ladle gull.
"Owe hoe," daughter wicket woof, "oil ticker shirt court tudor cordage offer groin murder. Oil catsup wetter lader, end den, owe bore!"
Soda wicket woof tucker shirt court, end whinny retched the cordage offer groin murder, founder pore oil worming worse lion inner bet. Sew hee left honor bet end garbled erupt.
Letter, Ladle Rat Rotten Hut cam tudor cordage, cowling "High, Groin Murder!"
"Comb ink, sweat hard," reprisal wicket woof, disgracing is verse.
"Owe grammar, water bag icy gut!"
"Butter sea ewe which" reprisal wicket woof.
"Owe Grammar, water bag noise! A nervous saw suture anomalous prognosis!"
"Butter small your whiff," setter wicket woof, ants mouse wear what a ring.
"Owe, grammar, water bag mousy gut!"
"Buttery chew whiff!" Reprisal wicket woof, end lee ping offer bet, eight Ladle Rat Rotten Hut.

Mural: Yonder nor sorghum stenches shut ladle gulls stopper torque wet strainers.

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: catspaw49
Date: 16 May 00 - 11:54 AM

Geez kendall.....I was thinking it was the other way around...........

Spaw

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: MMario
Date: 16 May 00 - 11:31 AM

Would love to see Ladle Rat Rotten Hut.

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: kendall
Date: 16 May 00 - 11:20 AM

Thank you very much. And, Spaw, what did I do to be categorized with you?

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 16 May 00 - 11:18 AM

Anyone remember/know Ladle Rat Rotten Hut, not a spoonerism but the folks reading this thread might appreciate it? If not, I'll post it, it's a howl.

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: MMario
Date: 16 May 00 - 10:32 AM

thank's 'Spaw!

MMario - who is still swamped with computer problems up the wazzoo

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: Bert
Date: 16 May 00 - 10:01 AM

and that guy Spaw is such a fart smeller

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 16 May 00 - 09:40 AM

Cap'n Morse, 'Spaw's provided a link. That's quite a cunning stunt as Spooner himself might have said!**BG**
RtS

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: The Shambles
Date: 16 May 00 - 09:27 AM

Spooonerism's in songs

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: catspaw49
Date: 16 May 00 - 09:20 AM

OK Kendall..........Just because I feel sorry for you since you have a skinny little finger, here's the thread YOU COULD HAVE LOOKED UP !!!!! (perhaps I should say "Look up YOURSELF"....but I wouldn't want to be crude or anything............)

See if you can muster up the energy to CLICK HERE

Spaw

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: MMario
Date: 16 May 00 - 09:08 AM

kendall - they are both in the forum... I have a couple emergency's at work, but will give a link asap. Ok?

Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: GUEST,Aldus
Date: 16 May 00 - 09:02 AM

I am not quite sure what your question is. However, Spoonerism are usually defined as a transposition of sounds in two or more words> Strictly speaking, your examples would not qualify as true "spoonerisms". They have been called spoonerisms in reference to William a Victorian era Oxford Don who was prone to Spoonerisms.

Subject: Spoonerisms
From: kendall
Date: 16 May 00 - 08:17 AM

Who can supply me with the story of the Pree little thigs? and Rindercella?