tongue twisters

[Paul Yeu-Kwong Tsang]

Hi, I was wondering if there was any sorta comprehensive list of tongue
twisters out there.... If there is, could some one post a list. Here's
one I picked up from my friend...

I'm a sheet slitter
I slit sheets,
I'm the best sheet slitter
that ever slit a sheet.

Thanks,

Paul

[David Hooper]

pt...@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Paul Yeu-Kwong Tsang) writes:

>I'm a sheet slitter
>I slit sheets,
>I'm the best sheet slitter
>that ever slit a sheet.

There's a song with these choruses, does anyone know it?
Some guy was singing it in the Wild Rover in Victoria Canada...

I'm not a sheet slitter
I'm a sheet slitter's son
And I'm sittin' slittin' sheets
'Til the sheet slittin's done

I'm not a cork soaker
I'm a cork soaker's son
And I'm sittin' soakin' corks
'Til the cork soakin's done

I'm not a punt kicker
I'm a punt kicker's son
And I'm sittin' kickin' punts
'Til the punt kickin's done

I'm not a fog ducker
I'm a fog ducker's son
And I'm sittin' ducking fog
'Til the fog duckin's done

<and more...>

[Joseph C Fineman]

I'm not a fig plucker
Or a fig plucker's son,
But I'll pluck figs
Till a fig plucker comes.
--
Joe Fineman j...@world.std.com
239 Clinton Road (617) 731-9190
Brookline, MA 02146

[Michael Parkinson]

a box of biscuits
a mixed biscuit box
a biscuit mixer

mike

[Adesh Kumur Jain]

here are some I know of.....

"The sixth sheik's sixth sheep's sick."

"She sells the sea shells at sea shore."

have fun ;-)
adesh

[LA...@maine.maine.edu]

Might also consider this tongue twister (old as it may be):

I'm not of fig plucker,
Nor a fig plucker's son,
But I can pluck figs,
'Til the fig plucker comes.

[MICHELE M STEVENS]

Here's some we had fun with as children:
(mind you, some of them make no real sense, but were done as tongue-
twisters anyway.)

Six sick slick slippery snakes slid slimily sideways.
This thick thing thinks things think thickly.
Ship-shape ships ship shapes on ships.
Big bad bugs bite beggers' bugs badly.
She sells seashells down by the seashore.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. If Peter Piper picked a
peck of pickled peppers, where's the peck of pickled peppers
Peter Piper picked? (be careful with this one, it can end up)
(sounding like 'pickled pec*ers'..*ahem* )

That's all I can think of at the moment.
Michele

[Joseph C Fineman]

If Theophilus Thistledown, the successful thistle sifter, in sifting a
sieve full of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles thru
the thick of his thumb, see that thou, in sifting a sieve full of
unsifted thistles, do not get any of the thistles stuck in thy tongue.

[Kapila Epasinghe]

How about:

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper.
So if Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,
Where is the pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?

[Dr. Giggles]

She sells sea shells by the seashore,
But the shells she sells are not the shells from the seashore.

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood ?
A woodchuck would chuck wood as much as a woodchuck could chuck wood.

"Are you copper-bottoming 'em, my man ?"
"No, I'm aluminuming 'em, mum"

[TORRESAN SACHA J]

how about
little italy
Bob Loblaw
red letter yellow letter

just my 2 cents worth

[Les Bartel]

Pleasant Valley pheasant pluckers.

The city sheriff shot the city marshal.

- les

[Terry Dwyer 4915161]

I'm not a Pheasant Plucker
I'm the Pheasant Plucker's son
and I'm only plucking Pheasants
till the Pheasant Plucker comes

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[Virginia A. Reed]

In article <1993Jun7.1...@ifi.uio.no>
kap...@ifi.uio.no (Kapila Epasinghe) writes:

> >I'm a sheet slitter
> > >I slit sheets,
> > >I'm the best sheet slitter
> > >that ever slit a sheet.

I heared a different version of this:
I slit a sheet
a sheet I slit
and on that slitted
sheet I sit.

How about:

Betty Botter bought some butter. "But," she said, "this butter's
bitter. If I put it in my batter it will make my batter bitter. But a
bit of better butter, that would make my batter better." So she bought
a bit of butter better than her bitter butter and she put it in her
batter and her batter was not bitter. So t'was better Betty Botter
bought a bit of better butter.

Try saying it all in one breath. >:-)

-Karen

[Terry Mcclure]

In article <1993Jun7.1...@ifi.uio.no> kap...@ifi.uio.no (Kapila Epasinghe) writes:
>

Try this one fast:

I'm a smart fellow; a fellow smart.
It takes a smart fellow to make a fellow smart.
--
~~~~~~
"Sometimes I don't think clearly, the rest of the time I just don't think."

Terry McClure

[Michael J. Fitch]

<headers deleted>

> >> >I'm a sheet slitter
> >> >I slit sheets,
> >> >I'm the best sheet slitter
> >> >that ever slit a sheet.
> >>

> >> "The sixth sheik's sixth sheep's sick."
> >>
> >> "She sells the sea shells at sea shore."
> >>
> >

> >Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper.
> >So if Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,
> >Where is the pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?
> >

> I'm a smart fellow; a fellow smart.
> It takes a smart fellow to make a fellow smart.
> --

One of my favorites...

The Tsar's bazaars' bizarre beaux-arts.
Bees are!

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[Michael J. Fitch]

Try this one:

The Tsar's bazaar's bizarre beaux-arts.

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"When tweetle-beetles battle with a paddle in a puddle and the ...."
---Dr. Suess (who elso?)

[David John Spencer]

In article <16...@news.duke.edu> mjf...@scratchy.phy.duke.edu (Michael J. Fitch) writes:
>
.>Try this one:
.>
.> The Tsar's bazaar's bizarre beaux-arts.
.>
.>
Hey Michael! Kid's stuff.

Here's one for you:

The sixth sick Sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

[T...@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu]

>The sixth sick Sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

Better David, yes, "S's" are the shits!"

"Strange Strategic Statistics!"

-tom

[Owen Carter]

Or try saying this quickly:

Red leather, Yellow leather.

o

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[Lori Smallwood]

Here's a good one (even though somebody else has probably posted it by now,
but hey, so sue me):

The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

-- Lori

[James C. Fish]

In an old Ripley's they say the toughest tongue twister is:

(say it three times)

Bugs black blood.

-- jf

[Simon E. Booth]

How about holding your tongue and saying 'I was born on a pirate ship'?

Simon

[Graham Trigge]

Virginia A. Reed (Virgini...@dartmouth.edu) wrote:
: In article <1993Jun7.1...@ifi.uio.no>
: kap...@ifi.uio.no (Kapila Epasinghe) writes:

: How about:

Hi

My all time favorite is :-

"I am not the fig plucker
I'm the fig plucker's son
I will not pluck fig's
'till the fig plucker comes"

It may not be a true tongue-twister, but it sure is funny when someone
says it wrong

- Graham T

gtr...@st.nepean.uws.edu.au

[Parslow R J]

In article <1993Jun17.0...@uws.EDU.AU> gtr...@st.nepean.uws.edu.au (Graham Trigge) writes:
>
>Hi
>
>My all time favorite is :-
>
>"I am not the fig plucker
>I'm the fig plucker's son
>I will not pluck fig's
>'till the fig plucker comes"
>

>- Graham T
>

I know it as:-
"I'm not a pheasant plucker
I'm a pheasant plucker's son
and I'm only pheasant plucking
till the pheasant plucker comes"

Get drunk people to say it.
Russ

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Drink, a drink, a drink to Lily the Pink, the Pink, the Pink.
-The Scaffold.
Russell Parslow e-mail par...@essex.ac.uk

[Bob Beer]

How about:

I am a mother pheasant plucker.
I pluck mother pheasants
I am the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker
Who ever plucked mother pheasants.

[Richard S Sucgang]

Ah, but Guiness says:

"The sixth sheikh's sixth sheep's sick."

:) Try it even just twice.

-rich

[Barry Ortlip]

: I am a mother pheasant plucker.

: I pluck mother pheasants
: I am the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker
: Who ever plucked mother pheasants.

I got a friend of mine to try to say this one night when he was relly
drunk. The closest he got was - "I'm a mother fucker. I fuck pleasant mothers."
I died.

Barry Ortlip

[Larry Martell]

This looks easy, but it's not:

A box of biscuts
A box of mixed biscuts
And a biscuts mixer

Here's another:

She sits and shines shoes
And when she sits she shines all day
She sits and shines shoes

One more:

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a wookchuck could chuck wood
He'd chuck as much wood as a woodchuck should if a wookchuck could chuck wood

Last one:

Moses supposes his toeses are roses
But Moses supposes erroneously
For nobodys toeses are roses
--
Larry Martell
212-339-2814
lar...@imsi.com

[Kirk DeHaan]

How about this one....

How many socks
Can a sock tucker tuck
If a sock tucker could tuck socks.

:-)

Kirk

[billf...@atlanticbb.net]

Big black rubber baby buggy bumpers

[n...@where.hr]

On Thu, 14 May 2020 08:19:19 -0700 (PDT), billf...@atlanticbb.net
wrote:

>Big black rubber baby buggy bumpers

One black beetle bled black blood while the other black beetle bled
blue.