# Ultimate Tongue Twister Discovered **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 18, 2002, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-tongue-twister-discovered/114619 "2002-06-18T01:08:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ookpik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c68b51/32.png) [@ookpik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ookpik)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-tongue-twister-discovered/114619/1 "2002-06-18T01:08:23Z")
I did a search on Tongue Twisters and nothing was found. If this has been covered already, I apologize, but if not, please submit your entries for the Ultimate Tongue Twister. I have one that is in the same category as Monty Pythons most dangerous joke…I’ll post it after a few replies. Ook. ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-tongue-twister-discovered/114619/2 "2002-06-18T01:21:38Z")
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**Author:** ![Lateralus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@Lateralus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lateralus)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-tongue-twister-discovered/114619/3 "2002-06-18T01:22:51Z")
Try saying “Red Leather, Yellow Leather” 5 times fast. See, I told ya you couldn’t do it. ---
**Author:** ![ookpik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c68b51/32.png) [@ookpik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ookpik)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-tongue-twister-discovered/114619/4 "2002-06-18T02:29:05Z")
That’s a good one…but the one I have in mind consists of only two words. ---
**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-tongue-twister-discovered/114619/5 "2002-06-18T02:38:31Z")
Lemon linament. The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick. Which wristwatch is the Swiss wristwatch? Styptic skeptic. Well, those are the only ones coming to my mind and tongue right now. ---
**Author:** ![Disciple\_of\_Alf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/958977/32.png) [@Disciple\_of\_Alf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disciple_of_Alf)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-tongue-twister-discovered/114619/6 "2002-06-18T02:55:58Z")
Oh **ookpik2** , why must you torture us so? Just let us hear the ultimate tongue twister, the thing promised to us in the thread title. ---
**Author:** ![cleops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2acd7d/32.png) [@cleops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cleops)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-tongue-twister-discovered/114619/7 "2002-06-18T03:00:44Z")
yeah ---
**Author:** ![Nightsong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightsong/32/3083_2.png) [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-tongue-twister-discovered/114619/8 "2002-06-18T03:06:11Z")
I always liked… “Short Schlitz” Now, if that isn’t hard enough whilst sober, imagine asking the bartended for one after you’ve had a few of 'em! 😃 * * * \<\< This posting brought to you by the letter ‘S’ \>\> ---
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-tongue-twister-discovered/114619/9 "2002-06-18T03:13:32Z")
How much ook would an ookpik pik if an ookpik could pik ook? An ookpik would pik as much ook as an ookpik could pik if an ookpik could pik ook! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![ResIpsaLoquitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-tongue-twister-discovered/114619/10 "2002-06-18T04:02:30Z")
When a fox is in the bottle where the tweetle beetls battle with their paddles in a puddle on a noodle-eating poodle. THIS is what they call… …a tweetle beetle noodle poodle bottles paddled muddled duddled fuddled wuddled fox in socks, sir! It was even funnier when John Lithgow read it on 3rd Rock from the Sun. ---
**Author:** ![anewkindofpower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@anewkindofpower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anewkindofpower)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-tongue-twister-discovered/114619/11 "2002-06-18T04:05:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lateralus \* > \*\*Try saying “Red Leather, Yellow Leather” 5 times fast. > \*\* Wow. Usually you can get through the classics (unique New York, toy boat, etc) one or two times before tripping up, but I have trouble saying this just once, taking my time even. ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-tongue-twister-discovered/114619/12 "2002-06-18T06:11:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ronincyberpunk \* > \*\* > Here is my personal favorite: > > To sit in solemn silence in a dull dark dock > In a pestilential prison with a life long lock > Awaiting the sensation of a short sharp shock > From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block. > > by W.S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan from _The Mikado_ \*\* Ah, a fine choice… 😃 Although I actually don’t think it’s that hard to say. 😉 Now, the Nightmare Song from _Iolanthe_ is a real killer, with such lyrics as “your sheet slips demurely from under you,” “next your pillow resigns and politely declines to remain at its usual angle,” “the black silk with gold clocks” and perhaps worst of all: “They’re a ravenous horde, and they all came on board at Sloane Square and South Kensington Stations.” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Bullwinkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@Bullwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-tongue-twister-discovered/114619/13 "2002-06-18T06:19:05Z")
I once read that the hardest name to pronounce, five times fast, is “Peggy Babcock”. I believe it. I’ve also had lots of trouble with “Arnold Palmer”. ---
**Author:** ![ookpik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c68b51/32.png) [@ookpik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ookpik)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-tongue-twister-discovered/114619/14 "2002-06-19T02:32:17Z")
Okay, here you go…This came about a few years back while watching a Saturday morning cartoon with my kids that is no longer on the air. It was called “The Gargoyles”. I asked my son if there were any…Girl Gargoyles. It may not seem like much in print, but try saying it out loud. Oh. and thanks Donkey, I liked that! ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Juliet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cc9497/32.png) [@Lady\_Juliet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Juliet)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-tongue-twister-discovered/114619/15 "2002-06-19T03:01:21Z")
I always had fun with “toy boats”, but maybe that’s just me. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-tongue-twister-discovered/114619/16 "2002-06-19T03:02:30Z")
Toy Boat ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-tongue-twister-discovered/114619/17 "2002-06-19T03:03:54Z")
My first simul-post. Does this mean we gotta get hitched now? ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Juliet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cc9497/32.png) [@Lady\_Juliet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Juliet)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-tongue-twister-discovered/114619/18 "2002-06-19T03:13:43Z")
I’ll call ya when I’m legal. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-tongue-twister-discovered/114619/19 "2002-06-19T03:48:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ronincyberpunk \* > > Here is my personal favorite: > > To sit in solemn silence in a dull dark dock > In a pestilential prison with a life long lock > Awaiting the sensation of a short sharp shock > From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block. > > by W.S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan from _The Mikado_ I detest that one. I do a lot of theatre, and there’s one group I work with that always, and I mean every darned rehersal, uses that one to warm up with. I’m just so sick of it! Give me She sells sea shells by the sea shore any day. Another one is: Thelonius Thistle, the successful thistle sifter, um… I don’t remember the rest, but that’s a tough one. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-tongue-twister-discovered/114619/20 "2002-06-19T04:01:42Z")
One word my ex found unpronounceable: “Rural.” Even worse “rural road” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-tongue-twister-discovered/114619.md?page=2)