# Favorite Tongue Twisters **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 9, 1999, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/7691 "1999-09-09T19:23:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Keeves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f05b48/32.png) [@Keeves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keeves)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 1999, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/7691/1 "1999-09-09T19:23:00Z")
What’s your favorite tongue twister? I think a lot of tongue twisters cheat by being long and hard to remember. My favorite ones would be very short. So short that they look very easy, until you try it and find out how hard it is. My runner-up: “Unique New York” And my all-time favorite: “toy boat” Try it. I dare you. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 1999, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/7691/2 "1999-09-09T19:28:00Z")
I like the title of a recent thread in GQ, “why wide rights?” ---
**Author:** ![OfficeGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@OfficeGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OfficeGirl)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 1999, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/7691/3 "1999-09-09T19:40:00Z")
for some reason i always had trouble in sunday school with saying part of the Lord’s Prayer. i have no trouble enunciating anything else really, and i talk a LOT, but for some reason always got hung up on “and lead us not into temptation” is that some sort of weird subconscious aversion to righteousness? hmmmmmmmmm. * * * [http://www.homestead.com/allusions/allusions.html](http://www.homestead.com/allusions/allusions.html) ---
**Author:** ![Dirty\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Dirty\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Devil)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 1999, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/7691/4 "1999-09-09T20:10:00Z")
Lemon liniment. ---
**Author:** ![No\_Me\_Ayudes\_Compadre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/no_me_ayudes_compadre/32/5224_2.png) [@No\_Me\_Ayudes\_Compadre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/No_Me_Ayudes_Compadre)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 1999, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/7691/5 "1999-09-09T20:38:00Z")
The stump thunk the skunk stunk. * * * “Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?” ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 1999, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/7691/6 "1999-09-09T22:25:00Z")
In 1980 a reader of \* Games \* won a tongue-twister contest, and got, as first prize, her tongue-twister engraved on a silver tray: Shep Schwab stopped at Scott’s Schnapps Shop; One shot of Scott’s Schnapps stopped Schwab’s watch. ---
**Author:** ![okatym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/76d3ee/32.png) [@okatym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/okatym)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 1999, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/7691/7 "1999-09-09T22:34:00Z")
“One smart fellow, he felt smart.” x 5 Juvenile, but I taught it to my daughter’s girl scout troop. It was funny till the leaders got mad at me…It’s still funny. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 1999, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/7691/8 "1999-09-09T22:41:00Z")
I actually appeared on video on that lame (and rightfully defunct) TV-show “America’s Funniest People” about 6 years ago performing this one: “Betty Botter bought a bit of butter. ‘But,’ she said, ‘This butter’s bitter. If I put bitter butter in my batter, it’ll make my batter bitter. But, if I put in better butter in my bitter batter, it’ll make my bitter batter better.’ So, Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter to make her bitter batter better.” Yeah, that’s my 10 seconds of fame, right there. * * * “Me fail English? That’s unpossible!” “English? Who needs that? I’m never going to England.” ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 1999, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/7691/9 "1999-09-09T23:14:00Z")
LauraRae, I’m sorry- I can’t be your friend anymore after that last post. 😉 From Stephen Kings “It” “He thrusts his fists against the post and still insists he sees the ghost” * * * An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity. ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 1999, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/7691/10 "1999-09-09T23:54:00Z")
Brava Zette!! (x10) ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 1999, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/7691/11 "1999-09-10T00:14:00Z")
From Dr. Seuss’\* Oh Say Can You Say":\* If you like to eat potato chips And chew pork chops on clipper ships I suggest that you chew A few chips and a chop At Skipper Zipp’s Clipper Ship Chip Chop Shop. * * * “If you drive an automobile, please drive carefully–because I walk in my sleep.”–Victor Borge ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 1999, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/7691/12 "1999-09-10T00:30:00Z")
Chief- thanks! A fellow fan, I see! That phrase really gives me the creeps, though… * * * An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity. ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 1999, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/7691/13 "1999-09-10T00:33:00Z")
“Everything floats down here, Georgie.” – Pennywise ::Brrrrr:: ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 1999, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/7691/14 "1999-09-10T00:40:00Z")
Chief- Check out my contribution to the new “board games” thread. Oh, yes…I read WAY too much King. 😉 “Late last night and the night before- Tommyknockers, Tommyknockers knocking at my door” * * * An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 1999, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/7691/15 "1999-09-10T01:04:00Z")
That damn sheep of sheik #6 is the only one that does me in every time: The sixth sheik’s sheep is sick! * * * Designated Optional Signature at Bottom of Post ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 1999, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/7691/16 "1999-09-10T02:32:00Z")
Complete version: The sixth sick Sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick. ---
**Author:** ![Pickman\_s\_Model](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Pickman\_s\_Model](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pickman_s_Model)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 1999, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/7691/17 "1999-09-10T02:35:00Z")
Lyrics to an old song from World War I: Sister Susie’s sewing shirts for soldiers, Such skill at sewing shirts our shy young sister Susie shows; Some soldiers write epistles, say they’d sooner sleep in thistles Than the salty short-sleeved sorts of shirts our sister Susie sews. Try that one fast six times. ---
**Author:** ![Sylence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Sylence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylence)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 1999, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/7691/18 "1999-09-10T02:52:00Z")
I think I sprained my tongue reading this thread. – Sylence * * * “The problem with reality is the lack of background music.” – Anon ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 1999, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/7691/19 "1999-09-10T03:01:00Z")
Moses supposes his toeses are roses, But Moses supposes erroneously. Moses, he knowses his toeses aren’t roses, as Moses supposes his toeses to be. BTW, _Fox in Sox_ is one of my favorite read-aloud books… kids usedta love it! (Now is your tongue numb?) ---
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 1999, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/7691/20 "1999-09-10T04:57:00Z")
Here’s one: “Somebody shot the city sherrif.” Say it 10 times fast, and, er, words appear that shouldn’t appear…you can probably guess what’ll happen. Don’t say that one in chuch. 😉 Also, if two tweedle beetles battle with paddles in a puddle in a bottle on a poodle eating noodles, it’s a tweedle beetle noodle poddle puddle paddle bottle battle. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tongue-twisters/7691.md?page=2)