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  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.  All the letters of the alphabet, in a shorter sentence.

    My favourite Spoonerism is:. "Please hush my brat; it's roaring with pain outside."

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I posted something and changed my mind. I couldn't find a way to delete it entirely without putting something in the boxes so I hit 'd' at random.
    Anyway, I'm enjoying the verbal equivalent of you all jumping about in my puddle with your new wellies on.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
    B3 said:
    I posted something and changed my mind. I couldn't find a way to delete it entirely without putting something in the boxes so I hit 'd' at random.
    Anyway, I'm enjoying the verbal equivalent of you all jumping about in my puddle with your new wellies on.
    Save it as a draft,  then delete the draft. ..........but then we couldn't have had the fun we had. 
    West Yorkshire
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Sorry for the curveball
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Fire, what do mean?  Have you breached internet etiquette?
    At least no one mentioned pheasant pluckers ;)
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Love the lazy dog.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    B3, I was messing about with found brocks and a daisy log. It got all a bit confusing.
  • Daisy33Daisy33 Posts: 1,031
    edited April 2018
    Fire said:
    Sorry for the curveball
    No need, t'was fun. :)
    @josusa47 My favourite Spoonerism is his admonishment to one of his students (allegedly) "Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave Oxford by the next town drain."
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Very good
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Just remembered another spoonerism.  A man who was briefly part of our family would rouse himself from a spell of indolence with the words, "Ah well, this won't get any parsnips buttered.". One day it came out as ,"This won't get any bursnips pattered.". Needless to say, pattering of bursnips became part of the familial dialect. Those humble but delicious vegetables have been bursnips ever since.
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