11/24/23 Grif.Net - Another Round of Tongue Twisting
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[Most are familiar with “Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers; a peck of pickled peppers Peter piper picked. If Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter piper pick?” Here are a few more tongue-tangling tales to make your eye teeth see what you’re saying.]
>>A tutor who tooted the flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot said the two to the tutor is it harder to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?
>>Betty Botter had some butter. “But,” she said, “this butter's bitter. If I bake this bitter butter, it will make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter would make my batter better.” So, she bought a bit of butter, better than her bitter butter, and she baked it in her batter, and the batter was not bitter. So 'twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.
>>A flea and a fly in a flue were imprisoned so what could they do? Said the fly, "Let us flee!" "Let us fly!" said the flea. So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
>>If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?
>>A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
>>She sells seashells on the seashore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So, if she sells shells on the seashore, I'm sure she sells seashore shells.
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Dr Bob Griffin
"Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!"
