[sub]TIME ELAPSED SINCE I QUIT SMOKING:
Four months, two weeks, 2 hours, 34 minutes and 8 seconds.
5444 cigarettes not smoked, saving $680.53.
Life saved: 2 weeks, 4 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes.[/sub]
"Satan is not an unattractive person."-Drain Bead
[sub]Thanks for the ringing endorsement, honey!*[/sub]
there’s the famous circus troupe - the cunning stunts…
& one I said while talking about rhodesian ridgebacks (a very big dog from Africa) - “they were bred for hilling & kunting lions”…I meant killing & hunting…oops!
The good Reverend Spooner, after whom these little slips of speech are named, got the word coined upon him (?) with little gems such as “Work is the curse of the drinking class.”
After a while strangers would stop him and engage him in coversation just to see if he would let one slip. The poor man became so flustered by the whole thing, he refused conversation and said that they didn’t want to meet him they just wanted to hear ‘one of those THINGS.’
The true masters of spoonerisms are the Capitol Steps. Their CDs have a series called “Lirty Dies,” where they use spoonerisms to comment on the political scene. Hilarious, especially when performed live.
My favorite accidental one came from a medieval christmas celebration a local church puts on every year…
The Boar’s Head and Yule Log festival - usually shortened to Boar’s Head.
At one of the local renfests, there’s a guy called the Tory Stellar who tells fairy tales spoonerized. Don’t remember any of his bit, but I laughed so hard I hurt when I saw it.
One of my favourites (although I’m not sure it’s a spoonerism) is also a comment on the disastrous state of gun control in the US: The right to arm bears…
I’ve let a spoonerism slip here and there but the funniest one was when I was drunk. I was trying to carry on a conversation with someone and I was having a hard time talking. I ended up saying “my sleech is spurring.”
It was funny at the time. :rolleyes: Probably because I was drunk!