# Time for Spoonerisms... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 23, 2000, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-spoonerisms/30396 "2000-08-23T03:49:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-spoonerisms/30396/1 "2000-08-23T03:49:30Z")
You can refer to it as: balking tackwards or salking tideways but my favorite still remains “Spalking [Spocking] in toonerisms”. Out here in the West we have “The Bank of the West”. I am only able to refer to it as: The Wank of the Best Okay, the virtual gauntlet has been cast down onto the virtual floor. Hit it gang… ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-spoonerisms/30396/2 "2000-08-23T04:39:40Z")
Lis is thame. * * * Yer pal, Satan [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] ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-spoonerisms/30396/3 "2000-08-23T04:41:11Z")
I’ll post something later. I am a shining wit. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-spoonerisms/30396/4 "2000-08-23T05:58:43Z")
I (along with countless others) have oft been referred to as a pheasant plucker. (“Taking a shit” sounds just as off-color the other way.) ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-spoonerisms/30396/5 "2000-08-23T08:09:37Z")
Oooh, I’ve been Samed by Flatan. Gotcha, oh “Dunce of Prickness.” Make that the, “Prance of Dickness.” Hold on, I’ve almost got it, “He smells a grub” No? How about, “The Dork One”? Wait a minute, those aren’t true Spoonerisms. Hhat the Well! (Just a little irony here.) ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-spoonerisms/30396/6 "2000-08-23T08:16:13Z")
Ah, funniest one I ever heard I didn’t actually hear… Teacher was being funny and reversing the first and last name initials. Bartin Meckman Dane Juncan Ill Bellis Until she came to Chuck Filyaw’s name, which she did straight, much to the amusement of the whole class… ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-spoonerisms/30396/7 "2000-08-23T08:19:10Z")
Chuck chuck bo buck banana-fana fo fu…nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Blah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Le\_Blah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Blah)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-spoonerisms/30396/8 "2000-08-23T08:27:10Z")
knee ya sex time! ---
**Author:** ![fierra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58956e/32.png) [@fierra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fierra)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-spoonerisms/30396/9 "2000-08-23T09:35:55Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Yankee\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/7ea924/32.png) [@Yankee\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yankee_Blue)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-spoonerisms/30396/10 "2000-08-23T13:47:08Z")
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.’ ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-spoonerisms/30396/11 "2000-08-23T14:13:54Z")
The true masters of spoonerisms are [the Capitol Steps](http://www.capsteps.com). Their CDs have a series called “Lirty Dies,” where they use spoonerisms to comment on the political scene. Hilarious, especially when performed live. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-spoonerisms/30396/12 "2000-08-23T15:05:05Z")
I love spoonerisms! in fact, I once started a thread about them. I used to make them all the time. white lines-light wines all smiles-small aisles ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-spoonerisms/30396/13 "2000-08-23T15:30:20Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-spoonerisms/30396/14 "2000-08-23T15:45:32Z")
Well, There’s a 30 minute oil change place in California that I constantly call “Econo Tube & Loon” And my mother once asked me if I’d like to go with her to “Mock the Wall” (I said, No, thanks, but can I watch?) ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-spoonerisms/30396/15 "2000-08-23T16:00:17Z")
🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DVous\_Means](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@DVous\_Means](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DVous_Means)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-spoonerisms/30396/16 "2000-08-23T16:02:56Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![DarbyV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@DarbyV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarbyV)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-spoonerisms/30396/17 "2000-08-23T16:15:04Z")
I had the name “Tucker” picked out for my new son until my 10 yo daughter started singing Tucker Tucker bo bucker fee fi fo… His name is Cameron 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-spoonerisms/30396/18 "2000-08-23T16:20:38Z")
> [@](#): > > Lis is thame. Sho nit. I’m feeling bite a quit of veja du. ---
**Author:** ![Kiki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kiki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiki)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-spoonerisms/30396/19 "2000-08-23T16:26:09Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-spoonerisms/30396/20 "2000-08-23T18:19:54Z")
Oh, you are all just a bunch of fart smellers ain’t cha? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-spoonerisms/30396.md?page=2)