Tongue Twisters wanted...
Renee Linda Roberts
shebang that I get!
For starters:
I am not a fig plucker
Nor a fig plucker's son
But I'll pluck the figs
'Til the fig plucker comes.
Renee Roberts
Re...@cup.portal.com
The Black Sheep
long time to get it straight.
Thanx to George Carlin (again)
There are seven words you cannot say on TV:
Shit, fuck, cunt, suck, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits.
Now, EVERYBODY TOGETHER!! :)
Ron
Victor Kamutzki
>Thanx to George Carlin (again)
>
>There are seven words you cannot say on TV:
>
> Shit, fuck, cunt, suck, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits.
That should be "piss".
Jeannie *wicked witch* West
> I am looking for tongue twisters.
Seven Slimey Snakes Slithering Slowly Southward
Sure Sam likes Spam
but Spam doesn't like Sam
for when Sam eats Spam
he hits the bathroom with a slam
enjoy
Signature line? Disclaimer? Why? I don't claim anything.
Damn, where did I leave that stupid bottle? If I could just get this magic
thing worked out I could be rich.
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Larry Martell
>Roberts) writes:
> I am looking for tongue twisters.
This one might not look hard, but try to say it three times fast:
A box of biscuits
A box of mixed biscuits
And a biscuit mixer
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Dave Cochran
|> This isn't an official tongue twister, but it's obscene >:-> and it took me a
|> long time to get it straight.
|>
|> Thanx to George Carlin (again)
|>
|> There are seven words you cannot say on TV:
|>
|> Shit, fuck, cunt, suck, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits.
|>
Well, you still need practice. It's:
Shit, piss, cunt, fuck, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits.
Of COURSE you can say the word "suck" on television.
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> I am looking for tongue twisters. Email them to me, and I will post the whole
> shebang that I get!
This is in the Guiness Book of World Records as the hardest tongue twister
in the English language:
The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
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Colleen Taylor
There is a song by the Irish Rovers called "Pheasant Plucker's Son" that
goes along the same lines.
I'm not a pheasant plucker
I'm a pheasant plucker's son
and I'm sittin' pluckin' pheasants
till the pheasant plucker comes.
-Colleen (who me?!) Taylor
ecs.umass....@overmind.mind.org
> I am looking for tongue twisters. Email them to me, and I will post the
whole
> shebang that I get!
This is in the Guiness Book of World Records as the hardest tongue twister
STEPHEN DENNISON
>The world's shortest - say it five times, fast:
>
> "Unique New York."
Or, *almost as short*
"Red Leather, Yellow Leather"
"Six Thick Thistle Sticks"
>
and, in tribute to Stephen King:
"He thrusts his fists against the posts, and still insists he sees the ghosts"
From the book/movie "IT"
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Stephen "No Sig" Dennison (Happy now, folks ??)
Gavroche
Have no idea where I read this...or whether it is true or not.
Tim Goh
Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry.
Tim
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Dave Cochran
|> The world's shortest - say it five times, fast:
|>
|> "Unique New York."
|>
Nah, "Toy boat" is shorter. Say THAT five times fast.
Jose Castejon-Amenedo
mfon...@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Mark A Fontana) writes:
> Mi mama me mima mucho.
Elaborating on this, you can say:
?A ti tu tia te tutea? No, a mi mi mama me mima.
Not a real tongue twister, but it is fun to say.
STEPHEN DENNISON
This one's *easy* if you know the trick. Don't say "Toy Boat", say "Boat
Toy", that is, start the sentence with Boat and then continue. It's a mind
trick that works for most folks because tongue twisters *work* in the mind,
not by actually stressing out any mouth muscles. One I have *never* found a
trick for, however, is the one I posted previously:
Real Rear Wheel Well.
Lemme know (thru e-mail) if this one's as much of a bitch for you folks as
it is for me. Maybe I just have a bizarre speech impediment that only shows
up on this one phrase, as I have *always* been able to master other tongue
twisters.
>
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Jeanny Jarvis
How about.........
Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore.
(untie tongue now...)
{:-)
Jea
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> The world's shortest - say it five times, fast:
>
> "Unique New York."
Toy Boat
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Kevin Pollard
Hey, what about "Red leather, yellow leather"
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Steve Monson
She saw six long, sleek, slender, slim saplings.
not too bad, but most of the time you get "slaplings." Or how about:
She saw six Swiss wristwatches.
Steve
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David F. Skoll
"Unique New York."
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Does double bubble-gum bubble double?
Red leather yellow leather (also Red lorry yellow lorry)
Unique New-York
Good blood bad blood
Bill Shearer
Unique New York,
Unique New York,
I love to live in
Unique New York.
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Jon Byrd
>In article <41...@cup.portal.com> Re...@cup.portal.com (Renee Linda
>Roberts) writes:
> I am looking for tongue twisters.
This one might not look hard, but try to say it three times fast:
A box of biscuits
A box of mixed biscuits
And a biscuit mixer
about an hour south of here there is a town called pleasant grove. i
always liked to hear people try to say "pleasant grove pheasant
pluckers" three times fast.
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Cruchy Frog
Nice try, but it isn't the shortest. The shortest (and one of the hardest)
I have ever heard is:
Peggy Babcock
Sometimes I have difficulty saying it one time, fast!
How about:
Imagine an imaginary menagarie manager imagining managing an
imaginary menagarie.
or
The sixth sick sheiks sixth sheeps sick.
or
The skunk rolled down and ruptured its larynx (guess it works
better in bushman ;-P )
or
Black bugs blood.
Are there any one-word tongue twisters?
Alan Morgan
STEPHEN DENNISON
>Try this:
>
> She saw six long, sleek, slender, slim saplings.
>
>not too bad, but most of the time you get "slaplings." Or how about:
>
> She saw six Swiss wristwatches.
I actually made this one up accidentally one day. It's a *virtually*
impossible-to-say-fast one liner. Try it, you'll like it!
The Real Rear Wheel Well.
I was telling sombody that their wheel well was bent. Not the fake
fiberglass wheel well flare, but the real rear wheel well underneath the
fiberglass one. After spitting all over the guy, I had to drag him over and
point to it 'cause I was laughing too hard to speak by that time.
Hey, simple things amuse simple people.
>
>Steve
>--
>It's not whether you win or lose
>
>It's whether *I* win or lose.
If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, but how you play the game, why the
hell do they keep score ??
Jose Castejon-Amenedo
Not exactly a tongue twister, but a legitimate result in the
Scottish soccer league:
Forfar four, East Fife five.
(My acknowledgments to JS)
Maurice E. Suhre
the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
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Mark A Fontana
Try saying "toy boat" over and over quickly...
How about some Spanish tongue twisters:
Mi mama me mima mucho.
Tres tristes tigres trillaron en un trigal.
(sorry if I got these wrong, I don't know Spanish)
Or these (from diction exercises):
I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, and on that slitted sheet I sit.
The lips and the teeth and the tip of the tongue, and the tip of
the tongue and the lips and the teeth.
(as opposed to "thuh lips'n thuh teeth'n...")
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Ole Craig
The one that always used to get me:
"Toyboat Toyboat Toyboat!"
Say it fast and try to avoid the inevitable "toyboit" on the second or
third one.
RE: Funny signs...
On the wall of one of the CS VAX labs here on campus is a laserprinted
sign that reads:
NO FOOD OR DRINK IN THE LAB!
Underneath it, one of the monitors had carefully hand-lettered:
(Please place recyclable cans in the box to the left
of the trash.)
At least _somebody_ understands that you can't reasonably expect to
write a 4000 line program in two days without the benefit of
Coca-Cola. Sheesh!
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Richard Barry Shrum
Allegedly, the world's most difficult tongue twister is:
The sixth sheik's sixth sheeps sick.
***Rick***
chaplin
Unique New York.
Well, what did you end up saying?
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STEPHEN DENNISON
>From article <1991Apr30.1...@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>, by afd...@lims04.lerc.nasa.gov (STEPHEN DENNISON):
>
>
>Hey, what about "Red leather, yellow leather"
>
>
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>University of New England - Northern Rivers
>Lismore, NSW, Australia
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>
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PETER WANGERMANN
And what about the Irish Football League:
Guildford 4 Birmingham 6 (after injury time)
P.
William R Letourneau
>>The world's shortest - say it five times, fast:
>>
>> "Unique New York."
>>
>
>I have ever heard is:
>
> Peggy Babcock
I think you guys are both wrong 'cause I know one even shorter:
Toy Boat
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Terry Thorpe
YOUR line was NY NY etc
My response was supposed to be
TOY BOAT 5 times in a row
(doing 3 is lucky !)~
Terry Thorpe
Believe this is even shorter ...
NEW YORK repeated 5 times
(if you do 3 you're lucky)~
S.Ramakrishnan
>This is in the Guiness Book of World Records as the hardest tongue twister
>in the English language:
>
> The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
How do they measure the 'touchness' of a toungue twister ? I don't think
this is as tough as :
She sells sea shells on the sea shore.
(try saying it rapidly).
Another (although easy) one:
'Betty bought some butter,
the butter was bitter,
Betty bought some better butter,
to make the bitter butter better'
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Dale Gold
> In article <dfs.672952232@yar>, d...@doe.carleton.ca (David F. Skoll) writes...
> >The world's shortest - say it five times, fast:
> >
> > "Unique New York."
Shorter yet: say it 5 times, fast:
Toy Boat
P{lvim{ki Esa
How about this:
George Churchill the surgeon is searchin for a pearl for his curly-haired
girl in a church in Churchill, Georgia.
Won't twist your tongue so much, but sounds horrible (especially when
said by some redneck hillbilly)..
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>How do they measure the 'touchness' of a toungue twister ?
> S Ramakrishnan, CS Dept, McBryde Hall, VaTech, Blacksburg, Virg. 24061-0106
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Haven't tried to touch a "toungue twister" (sic) lately. (Sorry, I'm a nit
picker ;-)
I don't know that this is a tongue twister as much as it is a mind twister.
Well, come to think of it, there is really no difference (as someone pointed
out last week on this news.group). Anyway, it's long and I am not sure I
remember all of it, so anyone who really knows it chime in...
Esau Wood sawed wood. Oh, the wood Wood would saw. One day Esau Wood saw a
wood saw saw wood as no other wood saw Wood ever saw would saw wood.
Dave Cochran
|> In article <152...@overmind.citadel> ecs.umass.edu!col...@overmind.mind.org writes:
|> >This is in the Guiness Book of World Records as the hardest tongue twister
|> >in the English language:
|> >
|> > The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
|>
|> How do they measure the 'touchness' of a toungue twister ? I don't think
|> this is as tough as :
|>
|> She sells sea shells on the sea shore.
|>
|> (try saying it rapidly).
|>
|> Another (although easy) one:
|>
|> 'Betty bought some butter,
|> the butter was bitter,
|> Betty bought some better butter,
|> to make the bitter butter better'
|>
I thought it went this way:
Betty Botter bought some butter,
"But", she said, "the butter's bitter.
If I put it in my batter it will make my batter bitter."
So she bought a bit of better butter
(better than her bitter butter) and
she put it in her batter and batter was not bitter.
So 'twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.
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Dean Hameed
how about...
Red Lorry, Blue Lorry (about five times, f-a-s-t)
Dave Cochran
All of these are from the Dr. Seuss book _Oh Say Can You Say_. I have pulled
out the ones that I find the most difficult to say, and here they are:
Bed Spreaders spread spreads on beds.
Bread Spreaders spread butter on breads.
And that Bed Spreader better
watch out how he's spreading
or that Bread Spreader's
sure going to butter his bedding.
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Upon an island hard to reach,
the East Beast sits upon his beach.
Upon the west beach sits the West Beast.
Each beach beast thinks that he's the best beast.
Which is best? Well, I thought at first
that the East was best and the West was worst.
Then I looked again from west to east
and I like the beast on the east beach least.
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Fritz needs Fred and Fred needs Fritz.
Fritz feeds Fred and Fred feeds Fritz.
Fred feeds Fritz with ritzy Fred food.
Fritz feeds Fred with ritzy Fritz food.
And Fritz, when fed, has often said,
"I'm a Fred-fed Fritz.
Fred's a Fritz-fed Fred."
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One year we had a Christmas brunch
with Merry Christmas Mush to munch.
But I don't think you'd care for such.
We didn't like to munch mush much.
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The storm starts
when drops start dropping.
When the drops stop dropping
then the storm starts stopping.
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>
> about an hour south of here there is a town called pleasant grove. i
> always liked to hear people try to say "pleasant grove pheasant
> pluckers" three times fast.
>
A variation on this used in a commercial on Irish TV:
Billy Connolly, holding a glass of Kaliber, a non-alcoholic lager, brewed by
Guinness, looks into the camera, and says:
"I'm not a pheasant plucker
just the pheasant plucker's son
I'm only plucking pheasants
'Til the pheasant plucker comes"
Then he looks down fondly at the glass....
"And I've been drinking!"
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Laura Utt
That one goes along with the one my husband told me the other day.
I'm not the sock tucker,
just the sock tucker's son.
But I'll tuck your socks
'til the sock tucker comes!