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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: Jack Campin Date: 21 Feb 21 - 05:50 PM Case of somebody who would have had a problem with "The Leith police dismisseth us". https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/edinburgh-woman-bit-off-mans-tongue-in-street-brawl-before-seagull-swooped-down-and-ate-it-3141625 You could say his bad luck had a tern for the worse. |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: Dave the Gnome Date: 18 May 09 - 07:23 PM Not exactly a tongue twister but I always liked 'Polish it behind the door' (You have to say it aloud) :D (eG) |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: GUEST,high school drama Date: 17 May 09 - 10:45 PM a big blue bug bit a black bear and the big black bear bled black blood you know new york unique new york you know you need unique new york. you will not need a night light on a light night like tonight. seven small swans saw six swift ships sailing southward. my drama teacher has us do these (and a few more I cannot recall) almost every friday. |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: Bert Date: 05 May 09 - 11:10 AM The cricket critic. The missel thrush ate thistle fluff. |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: frogprince Date: 04 May 09 - 04:03 PM Our niece just cinched her doctorate in TROPICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY; how many times can you repeat that fast? |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: GUEST,Wally Macnow Date: 04 May 09 - 02:24 PM One more to the tune of Glory Glory. This one was made up for Helen Schneyer who was a practicing psycho therapist. One shrewd shrink shrank shriven shiverers and the other shrewd shrink shrank shriners. |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: Gedi Date: 01 Jan 09 - 04:21 AM My favourite : The cat crept into the crypt, crapped and crept out again. |
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Subject: ?Tongue Twisters? From: GUEST,Anonomous Date: 01 Jan 09 - 01:23 AM ;p Yah I really don't know it's just fun to add on to these dumb things lol She Sells Seashells Down By The Sea Shore One Big Bug Bled Blue Blood, While The Other Big Bug Bled Black *One Sexy Seahorse sat solemly near the Silent Sea Shore *Newly Created By Me! Meaning Us! |
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Subject: Rhymes From: GUEST,Anonmous Date: 01 Jan 09 - 01:18 AM Q: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood? A: A woodchuck would chuck what a woodchuck could chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood. Boom. Oh Ye-ah! |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: GUEST,somebody over the rainbow Date: 01 Jan 09 - 01:16 AM "what will happen will happen, when it happens, and you happen to happen upon it." Created By Anonomus Me: Becca and Bear |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: cookster Date: 21 Jun 07 - 05:07 PM I just made this one up, six sick sixths I can't even say it without messing up. |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: EuGene Date: 21 Jun 07 - 04:08 PM When I was in Arkansas I saw a saw saw That could out saw any saw I ever saw saw. If you were in Arkansas and saw a saw saw That would outsaw the saw I saw saw, I would like to see the saw you saw saw saw. from an Ozark hillbilly, Eu |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: oldhippie Date: 21 Jun 07 - 03:09 PM The answer to the original "how much wood" woodchuck line I knew as: "A woodchuck would chuck what a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood." |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: GUEST, Topsie Date: 09 Nov 06 - 12:20 PM I find that saying 'lily leaf' even once gets my tongue tangled. I discovered this when reading Beatrix Potter's Mr Jeremy Fisher to my children. |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells From: Sandy Mc Lean Date: 08 Nov 06 - 03:26 PM I have fun singing this one: TO MORROW I started on a journey, about a year ago To a little town called Morrow in the county of Mayo I've never been a traveller, so I really didn't know That Morrow was the hardest place I'd ever try to go! I went down to the station, put my money on the desk Not meaning to cause trouble with my innocent request "Excuse me sir I'd like to go to Morrow and return No later than tomorrow, for I haven't time to burn." Said he to me, "now let me see if I have heard you right-- You'd like to go to Morrow and return tomorrow night" "You should have gone to Morrow yesterday and back today For the train today to Morrow is a mile upon its way.... "If you had gone to Morrow yesterday now don't you see You could have gone to Morrow and returned today at three. For the train today to Morrow, if the schedule is right Today it goes to Morrow and returns tomorrow night. Said I," My friend, it seems to me you're talking through your hat Is there a town called Morrow on this line, or is there not?" "There is," said he, "but take from me a quiet little tip To go from here to Morrow is a fourteen hour trip. "Said I," I've got to go to Morrow, can't I go today And get to Morrow by tonight if there is no delay?" Said he,"You cannot get to Morrow anymore today For the train that goes to Morrow is a mile upon its way!" I was so disappointed I was mad enough to swear, The train had gone to Morrow and it left me standing there. The man was right in tellin' me that I was a howlin' jay I could not go to Morrow, so I guess in town I'll stay. |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: Anne Lister Date: 08 Nov 06 - 02:05 PM My favourite to teach French students was always "Henry," said Henry's mother, "if you don't hang your hat on the hanger in the hall I will hit you on the head with a hard heavy hammer and your howls will be horrible to hear." Their favourite to get me stumped was "Les chaussettes de l'archiduchesse sont elles seches, archiseches?" But actually when I was working at a hostel in central Paris it was enough to say the address to people ... Dix Rue de Richelieu. No problem if you're not speaking with a French accent, of course. Anne |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: Georgiansilver Date: 08 Nov 06 - 09:19 AM One for the ladies (to be repeated quite quickly.) "I'm going to chew chew chew until my jaws drop off" |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: GUEST Date: 08 Nov 06 - 08:19 AM red leather yellow leather red leather yellow leather ... |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: jonm Date: 08 Nov 06 - 07:36 AM One smart fellow he felt smart.... |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: eddie1 Date: 08 Nov 06 - 07:17 AM Great one for chorus singing! Susie, Susie, sitting in the shoeshine shop. All day long she sits and shines, all day long she shines and sits Susie, Susie, sitting in the shoeshine shop. She shines and sits and sits and shines, sits and shines and shines and sits. Shines and sits and sits and shines, sitting in the shoeshine shop. Eddie |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: GUEST,aiko Date: 08 Nov 06 - 04:52 AM eunic new york |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: JennyO Date: 04 Jun 04 - 11:09 PM Good grief, I didn't notice! and after presenting it as a more correct version too! Must have been the late night - that's my story and I'm sticking to it..... |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells From: semi-submersible Date: 04 Jun 04 - 10:10 PM I let the people with the Rolf Harris page know that King Caractacus is spelled CaTactacus throughout their page. (It's also that way in the last post.) |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: JennyO Date: 04 Jun 04 - 11:32 AM I noticed The Court of King Caractacus is in the DT, but it is not quite correct. This is more like it - The Court of King Caractacus (arr. Harris) Now the ladies of the harem of the court of King Catactacus, were just passing by. All together, now the ladies of the harem of the court of King Catactacus, were just passing by. Now the ladies of the harem of the court of King Catactacus, were just passing by. Now the ladies of the harem of the court of King Catactacus, were just passing by. Now the noses on the faces of the ladies of the harem of the court of King Catactacus, were just passing by. All together, now the noses on the faces of the ladies of the harem of the court of King Catactacus, were just passing by. Now the noses on the faces of the ladies of the harem of the court of King Catactacus, were just passing by. Now the noses on the faces of the ladies of the harem of the court of King Catactacus, were just passing by. Now the boys who put the powder on the noses on the faces of the ladies of the harem of the court of King Catactacus, were just passing by. [Repeat 4 times] Now the fascinating witches who put the scintilating stiches in the britches of the boys who put the powder on the noses on the faces of the ladies of the harem of the court of King Catactacus, were just passing by. [Repeat 4 times] Now if you want to take some pictures of the fascinating witches who put the scintilating stiches in the britches of the boys who put the powder on the noses on the faces of the ladies of the harem of the court of King Catactacus... ...you're too late! Because they've just... passed... by! Here is a link to the page where I got it - there are links to other Rolf Harris songs there too: The Court of King Caractacus |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: Steve Parkes Date: 04 Jun 04 - 04:10 AM Flotsam & Jetsam ad a song (before I was born) that went Is he an Ozzie, Lizzie, is he? Not sure if thsi qualifies as a TT: Around the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran (Not for Jonathan Ross, that one) And this one isn't a TT, but, like the pheasant plucker, it tends to change when you say it out loud: I chased a bug around a tree; I'll have his blood, he knows I will Steve |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 04 Jun 04 - 12:36 AM Dearest Folkies,
Something strange is consistantly happening every MAXpermits the local wiccans put their paws on the console.
Sincerely,
If your residence of repose was in the I*.... city of R*....n |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 03 Jun 04 - 11:07 PM For yet another night....it is obvious a pussy is pushing the puffa-billy of the MudCat Train.....
So... a third posting to this thread.
Mr. FoolSt......
Do you, perhaps, have additional Rolf Harris' lyrics to add to this thread?
The ones you posted were GRAND!
Sincerely, |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 03 Jun 04 - 10:56 PM Foolestroupe!!!
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 03 Jun 04 - 09:16 PM Ah YorkshireYankee, that reminds me of the Rolf Harris one that built up to The scintillating witches who put the fasciniating stitches in the britches of the boys who put the powder on the noses on the face of the ladies of the Harem of the Court of King Karatikis.... were just passing by.... etc Well, if you want to see .... etc You're too late! Cause they've just .... passed ..... by! Robin |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells From: YorkshireYankee Date: 03 Jun 04 - 09:07 PM None... in T-H-A-T. Similar to one I learned as a kid: 'Raggedy rascal reach for the stars, can you spell that without any Rs?' Red leather yellow leather... As one pink porpoise popped into the pool, the other pink porpoise popped out (chorus: Glory, glory etc as above) Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear / Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair / Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he? Moses supposes his toeses are roses, but Moses supposes erroneously. For Moses, he knowses his toeses aren't roses, as Moses supposes his toeses to be. (Donald O'Connor and Gene Kelly in "Singing in the rain") A box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits, and a biscuit mixer. Betty Botter bought some butter but she said the butter's bitter. If I put it in my batter it will make my batter bitter. So, she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter and she put it in her batter and her batter wasn't bitter. So 'twas good that Betty Botter bought some better butter. And here's a song; I've found some other versions on Mudcat, but they're different from mine, so here's the version I know (learned it at camp, of course): Eddie GootchaGatchaGammaNosamaraNosatokaSammaKammaWak-kee Brown WHO? Eddie GootchaGatchaGammaNosamaraNosatokaSammaKammaWak-kee Brown Fell into the well, fell into the well, fell into the deep, dark well Suzy Brown, playin' in the yard / Heard him fall, and ran to tell her Ma that, Eddie etc... Suzy's Ma, makin' cracklin' bread / Heard her call, and ran to tell Old Joe that... Then Old Joe, sittin' on the porch / Grabbed his cane, and ran to town to tell that... When the town turned out to see the well / What a shame, it took so long to say his name that Eddie GootchaGatchaGammaNosamaraNosatokaSammaKammaWak-kee Brown WHO? Eddie GootchaGatchaGammaNosamaraNosatokaSammaKammaWak-kee Brown DROWNED! |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells From: semi-submersible Date: 03 Jun 04 - 09:01 PM None. "T-h-a-t" has no "f"s. ;-p |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: Mr Happy Date: 03 Jun 04 - 12:28 PM Both a tounge twister and a riddle: 'If a feller met a feller in a field of fitches, could a feller tell a feller where a feller itches?' 'How many f's in that?' |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells From: Mark Cohen Date: 03 Jun 04 - 05:42 AM The Mikado. (click) Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: Tracey Dragonsfriend Date: 03 Jun 04 - 04:54 AM To sit in solemn silence In a dull dark dock In a pestilential prison With a lifelong lock Awaiting the sensation Of a short, sharp, shock From a cheap and chippy chopper On a big black block Courtesy of Gilbert & Sullivan, but I don't remember from what piece. Cheers Tracey Scorch's Pyrography |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: Steve Parkes Date: 03 Jun 04 - 04:34 AM The Leith police dismisseth us, They thought we sought to stay; The Leith police dismisseth us, They thought we'd stay all day. The Leith police dismisseth us, We both sighed sighs apiece; And the sighs that we sighed as we said goodbye Were the size of the Leith police. Steve |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: JohnInKansas Date: 02 Jun 04 - 10:38 PM It's somewhat curious that which of these are "hardest" seems to depend on which part of the country (or which country) was the place where you learned to speak. A full analysis, of course, would need to consider several other factors. When I came across a "tongue twister" book in Jr Hi School, it was noted that for some reason most of the boys had little trouble with one classic that seemed almost impossible for the girls to get out - "Rubber baby buggy bumpers" (as previously posted several times). The one that stopped all of the guys, and most of the gals was - "Six slick slim sycamore saplings." (There is an "extended version" of "saplings," but the short form was usually enough.) It was apparent, though, that the gals had less trouble than the guys with the saplings. We agreed then that "buggy bumpers" was a "lip locker" while "slycamore slaplings" was more a "tongue tangler," and actually did some "learned discourse" on why the differences might occur. (Remember, we were only about 13 y.o. at the time.) Anyone caring to venture opinions on why there would be a difference in male/female abilities here should avoid overly trite jokes about customary uses of the lips vs the tongue, of course. We covered most of them - at pre-teen level anyway. John |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: GUEST,NSC George Henderson Date: 02 Jun 04 - 12:00 PM This song is in the DT and the chorus goes: I want a proper cup o'coffee Made in a proper copper coffee pot I must be off my dot to want a cup o' coffee in a propere coffee Pot Brown coffee pots and green coffee pots They're no use to me right OY If I can't have a proper cup o' coffee from a proper copper coffee pot I'll have a cup o' tea. |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Glory, glory how peculiar From: Abby Sale Date: 01 Jun 04 - 11:43 PM I got to sing Sam Hinton's version of this at this past Earth Day fest locally. I was surprised at how well the adults did. Here's one additional verse plus one extra word for another verse. One lissome lass had a loathsome lisp And the other lissome lass lisped less. One big black bug bled blue-black blood And the other big bug bled blue; which is very close to a classic short toughie Black bat's blood. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: SWIM SAM SWIM (from Regal Slip) From: GUEST,DragonLady Date: 01 Jun 04 - 11:15 PM No-one's mentioned the classic music hall song 'Swim Sam Swim' recorded umpty mumble years ago by the group Regal Slip on their album, Bandstand. I've used it as a sobriety test for years - to the point where audiences can even join in on the double-speed final chorus. Sammy was a sailor, a sailor big and bold Shipped on board a whaler and tumbled overboard. Shouted, 'Someone save me'. Someone said, 'Go hang! The sharks are swimming round you' then his shipmates sang ... CHORUS Swim Sam, swim Sam, swim Sam, show them you're some swimmer, Swim like the snow white swan, Sam, you know how the snow white swan swam, Six sharp shivering sharks are gonna snap your limb But a swim well swum is a well swum swim, So swim Sam, swim Sam, swim! Sammy swam with vigour, the race had just begun Sharks all eyed his figure, 'All jelly!' shouted one. One old portly porpoise, bobbed up in the foam And shouted, 'If you want to catch that last boat home' ... CHORUS Sharks all joined the chorus and said, while in the brine, 'Ragtime ditties bore us, but by gum, this is fine'. They spluttered with their esses until they got lock-jawed And Sammy left them singing as he climbed on board. CHORUS |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells From: Kudzuman Date: 01 Jun 04 - 10:36 PM Can you imagine an imaginary manegerie manager, Imagining managing an imaginary manegerie! Kudzuman |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: Jim Dixon Date: 01 Jun 04 - 07:49 PM Gargoyle: Now, how would you expect me to find a tongue twister in a thread titled I ain't no ethnofolkmusicoligist? The term "tongue twister" doesn't even appear in that thread. And the thread isn't really about tongue twisters anyway. It's about the floating verse "I ain't no –––; I'm a –––'s son…." (or "…I ain't no ––'s son…"). There just happens to be one version that's a tongue twister. |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells From: iamjohnne Date: 31 May 04 - 09:54 PM I am a mother pheasant plucker I pluck mother pheasants I am the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker that ever plucked a pheasant. Johnne "goin' where the weather suits my clothes" |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells From: Mark Cohen Date: 31 May 04 - 08:41 PM Carly, if you follow my link , you'll see some history about the announcers' test, courtesy of Girl Scout Troop 1440 in Wakefield, Mass., which, amazingly enough, is less than 20 miles from Lexington, where my sister lives. Surprisingly, however, my sister does not know the announcers' test, maybe because she grew up in Philadelphia--which, amazingly enough, is where I grew up as well. However, I did learn it in Philadelphia...Central High School, 1966. Apparently it dates from the 1940's in New York and was in fact a test for prospective radio announcers. Jeanie, yours are fantastic! I consider myself fairly good at tongue twisters, but Peggy Babcock took me quite a while even to say more than once, and I'm far from having mastered it. You're right, one of the things that makes for a tough tongue twister is consonants that bounce back and forth from the front to the back of your mouth, what the speech pathologist would call velar and labial sounds: G and K mixed up with P and B. Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells From: semi-submersible Date: 31 May 04 - 06:56 PM The Tongue Twister Song from Joe D. Thompson's CD "Every Kind of Magic" has verses based on Peter Piper and Betty Botter, and a chorus something like this: Oh, my tongue is tied in knots, it's twisted round and round. Who would have thought that I could get caught and tricked by just a sound? I couldn't find a demo of this song (CDBaby had a streaming demo of the CD but it didn't work for me) but you can listen to his Pirates in the Bath for a good laugh. (MP3 demo here 4/5 of the way down the page) I enjoy Thompson's music as much as my kid does. My favourite song of his is Stuff (again, demos linked from his site don't work for me) which I heard at a performance last year: "then go to the store/to buy more/stuff to put stuff in." I'm waiting for my copy of his new CD to hear it again. |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: ToulouseCruise Date: 31 May 04 - 11:17 AM *ahem*... If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker, It is slick to stick a lock upon your stock. Or some joker who is quicker, gonna trick you of your liquor If you fail to lock your liquor with a lock. (by the way, I love the first one that started the thread, Jim -- I am quite good at keeping my tangue from getting tungled, but that was a tough one!) Brian. |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: Dave Hanson Date: 31 May 04 - 06:11 AM Hot corn cold corn, Bring along the demijohn. I chased a bug around a tree, I'll have his blood, he knows I will. eric |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: Hrothgar Date: 31 May 04 - 05:13 AM Mrs Magoo had a square cut bunt, Not a cut square, but a square cut bunt. |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: Barbara Date: 30 May 04 - 10:07 PM Every time I drive under this freeway sign in Portland, Oregon, it occurs to me that it is a tongue twister, or at least good exercise for the mouth and tongue: Terwilliger Boulevard Blessings, Barbara |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: Wolfgang Date: 30 May 04 - 03:18 PM It's fun to try some of these from the perspective of someone used to another language. Some of those are no tongue twisters for me at all, some are, and the really difficult for me are missing: We were very weary weavers. This is the thing. The knots in your tongues are a slightly different places than my knots are. Wolfgang |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Tongue Twisters (She sells seashells... From: Wolfgang Date: 30 May 04 - 03:06 PM It's fun to try some of these from the perspective of someone used to another language. Some of those are no tongue twisters for me at all, some are, and the really difficult for me are missing: We were very weary weavers. This is the thing. The knots in your tongues are a slightly different places than my knots are. Wolfgang |
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