# Phrases you Spoonerize **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 28, 2002, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-spoonerize/106072 "2002-04-28T06:56:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sigmundex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@Sigmundex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmundex)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-spoonerize/106072/21 "2002-04-29T04:04:19Z")
My friends and I used to “spontaneously spoonerize” when I was a kid. One day when we were playing frisbee outside I said to them “I have to go shake a tit”. I’ll always remember that one. ---
**Author:** ![Regina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d78d45/32.png) [@Regina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regina)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-spoonerize/106072/22 "2002-04-29T15:20:58Z")
My sister and I now call the Jazz and Blues Federation the Blahs and Jews Federation all the time after one of us spoonerized it the first time. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-spoonerize/106072/23 "2002-04-29T15:28:33Z")
I actually used the phrase “cunning stunts” in a book, just to make my friends laugh. My mother was doing her spring cleaning a couple of years back and wanted to get her rugs and drapes professionally cleaned. I was in the next room when I heard her call a service on the phone and clearly ask, “do you do drugs and rapes?” We both fell on the floor for a good half-hour. ---
**Author:** ![Bean\_Counter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/db5fbb/32.png) [@Bean\_Counter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bean_Counter)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-spoonerize/106072/24 "2002-04-29T18:40:12Z")
I get up every morning and “shake a tower” ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-spoonerize/106072/25 "2002-04-29T19:04:10Z")
Hm, **Bean** , that one sounds like it belongs in the double entendre thread. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Griffin)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-spoonerize/106072/26 "2002-04-29T21:42:23Z")
Shirley Bassey is my favourite. ---
**Author:** ![Nonny\_Mouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5e9695/32.png) [@Nonny\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonny_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-spoonerize/106072/27 "2002-04-29T22:35:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RobGraham \* > \*\* ‘crooks and nannies’ > > \*\* On behalf of nannies everywhere, I would just like to voice my strenuous objection to the proliferation of this spoonerism. This reprehensible association of child-care professionals with criminals must be eliminated in one swell foop. Nonny ---
**Author:** ![Nonny\_Mouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5e9695/32.png) [@Nonny\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonny_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-spoonerize/106072/28 "2002-04-29T22:35:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RobGraham \* > \*\* ‘crooks and nannies’ > > \*\* On behalf of nannies everywhere, I would just like to voice my strenuous objection to the proliferation of this spoonerism. This reprehensible association of child-care professionals with criminals must be eliminated in one swell foop. Nonny ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2002, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-spoonerize/106072/29 "2002-04-29T22:39:44Z")
dont know if this counts but, my wife and I refer to that aussie resturant as “Outhouse Back-steak” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TN\_hippie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TN\_hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TN_hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-spoonerize/106072/30 "2002-04-30T00:59:17Z")
**racer72:** I prefer the phrase _bass ackwards._ ---
**Author:** ![TN\_hippie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TN\_hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TN_hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-spoonerize/106072/31 "2002-04-30T01:05:03Z")
**racer72:** I prefer the phrase _bass ackwards._ ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-spoonerize/106072/32 "2002-04-30T01:50:50Z")
Hm. There’s also a hamburger restaurant that my sister and I always had to be careful when naming, as otherwise it would come out very wrong. Fuddruckers. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-spoonerize/106072/33 "2002-04-30T03:47:04Z")
my favorite bumper sticker and one of my favorite phrases: “I’m going nuckin’ futs!” ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-spoonerize/106072/34 "2002-04-30T04:19:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SisterCoyote \* > \*\*Hm. There’s also a hamburger restaurant that my sister and I always had to be careful when naming, as otherwise it would come out very wrong. > > Fuddruckers. \*\* I don’t even try anymore, I just call the damn place “Buttfuckers”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-you-spoonerize/106072.md?page=1)