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Tongue Twisters

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by Bion, Jun 28, 2004.

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  1. Bion Gems: 21/31
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    Following on the joke thread, anyone have any good tongue twisters? It can be amusing, like my fave in English:

    I'm a mother pheasant plucker
    I pluck mother pheasants
    I am the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker
    That ever plucked a mother pheasant.

    Or very difficult to say, like this auf Deutsch:

    Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut
    und
    Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleid

    (cabbage remains cabbage, and wedding dresses remain wedding dresses...)
     
    Bion, Jun 28, 2004
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    Some of the more common ones in english:

    How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? (Or just ask Lazy Bonzo...)

    Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick? (There is more but I don't remember it)

    Sally sells seashells by the seashore (again there is more that I don't remember)

    I forgot: Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy was he? (Say it real fast, unless I have that one wrong too :nolike: )

    [ June 28, 2004, 20:08: Message edited by: dman18 ]
     
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    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

    It's:

    How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood?

    Thus leading into the second verse:

    A woodchuck would chuck lots of wood if a wood chuck would chuck wood.

    Woodchuck's can chuck wood but they won't. Not they can't, they won't.

    /end rant.

    [edited because I left a could where they should have been a would]

    [ June 29, 2004, 19:27: Message edited by: Lazy Bonzo ]
     
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    It wasn't Sally, it was She... makes it slightly harder. :p (tongue smiley!)
     
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    Wasn't it How much wood would woodchuck chuck if wouldchuck would chuck wood?
     
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    Bloody hell, does it matter? lol. ;) :p
     
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    For my mother it did when she was making me repeat that ;)
     
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  8. Splunge

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    Way to go Splunge, take all the fun out of posting our favorite toung twisters by posting them all. :shame: :toofar:

    Oh yeah and;

    Just think, that sphinx has a sphincter that stinks!

    LOL!! :lol:
     
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  10. Splunge

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    [​IMG] Hey, I didn't post them! I just gave a link so people could find them easily and get them right! (And avoid the woodchuck-type scenario.) :p
     
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    From here I found:

    (tho this should be modified, as Bob Dole wouldn't really dole dough, would he? Unless the dough was pork that is...)

    There's also Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado:

    Or, in one breath:

     
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  12. Splunge

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    One breath?!? I barely made it to the monkeys!

    And I wasn't even saying it out loud! :p :xx: :spin: :roll: :rolling:
     
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    Heh, I got it, course I played a wind instrument for 7 years so that helped a bit. ;)
     
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    Yep me too, in one breath.

    Of course I can't prove it, you'll just have to take my word on it ;)
     
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    The only other bit of the Peter Piper tongue twister I know is:
    If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
    Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
     
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    Best one i have come across, most people can't even say this once:

    "Unique new york new york unique" five time fast
     
    Xerxes, Jul 2, 2004
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    Is apparently the hardest tongue twister in the english language. So I'm told. It's actually not that tough though (I wouldn't try to say it more than once though... :p )
     
    Faerus Stoneslammer, Jul 3, 2004
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    "Sex laxar i en a laxask." I always found that one hard, it means: Six salmons in a salmon box.
     
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    Okay, you socalled Monkey Island lovers! Here is the real thing:

    guybrush: how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
    woodchuck: a woodchuck could chuck no amount of wood since a woodchuck can't chuck wood.
    guybrush: but if a woodchuck could chuck and would chuck some amount of wood, what amount of wood would a woodchuck chuck?
    woodchuck: even if a woodchuck could chuck wood, and even if a woodchuck would chuck wood, should a woodchuck chuck wood?
    guybrush: a woodchuck should chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood, as long as a woodchuck would chuck wood.
    woodchuck: oh. shut up.

    :D

    Ce sont soisant-six saucisons (Sorry for spelling. For those who don't know, that was french for 'That are 66 sausages')

    Here is a Dutch one:
    De koetsier poetst het roest van de postkoets met postkoetspoets.
    Means: The coachman (driver) polishes the rust off the postal coach (mailvan?) with postal-coach-cleanser. (weird translation...)

    [ July 03, 2004, 20:11: Message edited by: Master of Nuhn ]
     
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    I can say it..the Unique New York one
     
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