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Help: Spoonerisms

16 May 00 - 08:17 AM (#228648)
Subject: Spoonerisms
From: kendall

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


16 May 00 - 09:02 AM (#228675)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: GUEST,Aldus

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.


16 May 00 - 09:08 AM (#228680)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: MMario

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


16 May 00 - 09:20 AM (#228688)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: catspaw49

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


16 May 00 - 09:27 AM (#228695)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: The Shambles

Spooonerism's in songs


16 May 00 - 09:40 AM (#228705)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler

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


16 May 00 - 10:01 AM (#228712)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: Bert

and that guy Spaw is such a fart smeller


16 May 00 - 10:32 AM (#228732)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: MMario

thank's 'Spaw!

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


16 May 00 - 11:18 AM (#228761)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: GUEST,Mrr

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.


16 May 00 - 11:20 AM (#228763)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: kendall

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


16 May 00 - 11:31 AM (#228776)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: MMario

Would love to see Ladle Rat Rotten Hut.


16 May 00 - 11:54 AM (#228795)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: catspaw49

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

Spaw


16 May 00 - 12:00 PM (#228801)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: GUEST,Mrr

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.


16 May 00 - 12:00 PM (#228802)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: KT

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/


16 May 00 - 12:05 PM (#228808)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: MMario

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


16 May 00 - 12:08 PM (#228810)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: GUEST,Mrr

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?


16 May 00 - 12:20 PM (#228821)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: catspaw49

Completely nuckinfutz.

Spaw


16 May 00 - 03:32 PM (#228946)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: Saffron_Kerlilox

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.


17 May 00 - 11:11 AM (#229327)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: GUEST,Pop Halfwit.

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.


18 May 00 - 08:06 AM (#229819)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: InOBU

Good one Wit!
Larry


18 May 00 - 08:43 AM (#229827)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: Vixen

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


18 May 00 - 01:40 PM (#230009)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: Mrrzy

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...


18 May 00 - 02:29 PM (#230032)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: TheOldMole

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.


18 May 00 - 02:53 PM (#230041)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: Vixen

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...


18 May 00 - 03:34 PM (#230061)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: GUEST,Den at work

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


18 May 00 - 03:56 PM (#230069)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: MMario

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


18 May 00 - 04:54 PM (#230101)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: Bill D

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?"


18 May 00 - 06:32 PM (#230156)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: Hardiman the Fiddler

You could always do research at the libric pubbleburry! Hardiman


18 May 00 - 06:41 PM (#230160)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: Micca

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"


23 Nov 11 - 09:22 PM (#3262436)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: GUEST,The Cat That Ran Away With The Spoon

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


23 Nov 11 - 09:25 PM (#3262439)
Subject: ADD Version: The Pea Little Thrigs
From: GUEST,The Cat That Ran Away With The Spoon

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.


24 Nov 11 - 02:47 AM (#3262516)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: Kit Griffiths

What shining wits we all are....


24 Nov 11 - 06:35 AM (#3262576)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: MGM·Lion

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

~M~


24 Nov 11 - 10:02 AM (#3262688)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: Bert

Well I call my grandkids 'boiled sprats'


24 Nov 11 - 03:57 PM (#3262873)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: KHNic

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


24 Nov 11 - 04:06 PM (#3262882)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: BTNG

Ahhh...but The Lord is a shoving leopard


24 Nov 11 - 04:12 PM (#3262890)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: KHNic

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


24 Nov 11 - 04:17 PM (#3262894)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: BTNG

and have the hags flung out


24 Nov 11 - 04:32 PM (#3262902)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: KHNic

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


24 Nov 11 - 05:00 PM (#3262914)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: BTNG

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


24 Nov 11 - 05:02 PM (#3262917)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: KHNic

Or, indeed, a Cupid Stunt.


24 Nov 11 - 05:16 PM (#3262923)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: BTNG

The Other Tales

Ali Theeva and the Forty Babs

Goldybear and the Three Locks


24 Nov 11 - 08:31 PM (#3263024)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: GUEST,Guest - Frank

The above is all mucking refarkable!


24 Nov 11 - 08:36 PM (#3263027)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: Leadfingers

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/


25 Nov 11 - 12:50 AM (#3263095)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: Bert

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

But not in the roaring pain!


25 Nov 11 - 07:07 PM (#3263563)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: Joe_F

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.


25 Nov 11 - 07:25 PM (#3263569)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: paula t

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


25 Nov 11 - 10:02 PM (#3263617)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: PHJim

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.


26 Nov 11 - 01:03 PM (#3263814)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: GUEST,Anon

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.


26 Nov 11 - 10:25 PM (#3264063)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: Rapparee

I nould mever fake nun of the Severedend Ruiner.


03 Apr 24 - 07:01 PM (#4200365)
Subject: RE: Help: Spoonerisms
From: GUEST

Ladle Rat Rotten Hut