BS: Spoonerisms

Subject: RE: BS: Spoonerisms
From: GUEST,Sooz(at work)
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 08:10 AM

Anyone heard the story of Rindicella and the sugly isters? The murds are wixed up all the way through!

Subject: RE: BS: Spoonerisms
From: GUEST,Brian
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 08:05 AM

A friend staggered in from the pub one night said, "Christ, I feel as nissed as a pucking fewt."

Brian

Subject: RE: BS: Spoonerisms
From: Deckman
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 07:16 AM

This thread reminds me of the line: "My twist was all tongued up around my eye tooth and I couldn't see what I was saying!" Cheers, Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Spoonerisms
From: kendall
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 06:10 AM

An announcer on the BBC once said: "This is the British Broadcopping castration," (probably intentional)

Subject: RE: BS: Spoonerisms
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 04:33 AM

The difference between:
A bad archer and a constipated owl?
One shoots but never hits...

A costermonger (street trader) and a dog with no hind legs?
One bawls out his wares, the other has trouble walking

A Salvation Army chorister, and a nun in the bath?
] One has a soul full of hope

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Spoonerisms
From: The Nfkfiddler
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 03:50 AM

Jasper Carrot recorded the "Bastity Celt" with lines like, "The billy old sarsted had yitted a fale" and "near fought mental gaiden I know a slackbmith"

Subject: RE: BS: Spoonerisms
From: Mr Happy
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 03:43 AM

bbc commentators: 'the gun carriage proceeds slowly down the mall, ahead of the royal arse hortillery!'

'the minister, sir stifford crapps!'

Subject: RE: BS: Spoonerisms
From: JustWondering
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 03:37 AM

Muverly...lore please...

Subject: RE: BS: Spoonerisms
From: Genie
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 01:57 AM

Well, on July 4th, Peter Jennings introduced "The Mormon Tabblenacker Choir" on live TV.

Rev. Spooner also referred to his loyal parishioners once as "Ye tons of soil."

Subject: RE: BS: Spoonerisms
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 12:46 AM

It actually started as one of those verbal dyslexia afflictions, Rev. Spooner wasn't the first, neither was it deliberate... he just happened to be documented best, so gave his name to it. It's an affliction just like Tourettes syndrome.

However, it does mean some exceedingly funny verbal clangers, like a wedding participant I heard thanking the assembled company for the delightful presents including a c*nteen of catlery.

Then there was the weather report on BBC Radio 4 which spoke of fog at Gatport Airwick.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Spoonerisms
From: mack/misophist
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 12:38 AM

It is said that Rev Spooner hated services because he knew that most of the congregation had come to hear him say "The Lord is a shoving leopard".

Subject: RE: BS: Spoonerisms
From: kendall
Date: 17 Jul 02 - 09:38 PM

What's the difference between a whore with diarrhea, and an epileptic clam shucker?

the clam shucker shucks between fits.

Subject: RE: BS: Spoonerisms
From: aussiebloke
Date: 17 Jul 02 - 09:26 PM

I believe that the good Reverend Spooner was known to ride around Oxford on a 'well-boiled icicle'.

aussiebloke

Subject: RE: BS: Spoonerisms
From: Deckman
Date: 17 Jul 02 - 08:35 PM

About 20 years ago, I worked with a man who spoke like this. It had to be some kind of a birth defect, but every single day, he spoke "spoonerisms!" I would hit the floor in laughter, and he would be offended. It took months, on my part, to realize that he was for real. These were not contrived jokes. He didn't know the difference. On the one hand it was somewhat sad (as he didn't get it) and on the other hand, it was really amusing! CHEERS, Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Spoonerisms
From: greg stephens
Date: 17 Jul 02 - 08:09 PM

what's the difference between a Radox bath and a drummer? One bucks up your feet...

Subject: Spoonerisms
From: Yorkshire Tony
Date: 17 Jul 02 - 07:56 PM

Having noticed a bit of thread creep in the malapropisms thread, I thought we should start a new one. I will kick off with some of the originals from Spooner himself:

'Sir, you have deliberately tasted two whole worms, you have hissed all my mystery lectures and have been caught fighting a liar in the quad, you will leave Oxford by the next town drain.'

'Gentlemen, let us glaze our arses to the queer dean'

On observing some undergrads boating on the river: 'Punts are not for kissing in' - no one was sure if he had it right that time.