From: jxf13@po.CWRU.Edu (John Fischer)
Subject: TONGUE TWISTERS - THE LIST
Reply-To: jxf13@po.CWRU.Edu (John Fischer)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 21:13:54 GMT




Hello Humor.d . . . here is a compilation of the tongue twisters to
date, with attributions . . . let's keep 'em comin' . . .

Thanks to all who have contributed.

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From: dan@mvaxcs1.cse.nau.edu (Dan McMichael)
Date: 5 Apr 92 23:59:47 GMT

and from:

Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1992 07:52:23 GMT

                   ONE MAN WAS SMART; HE FELT SMART; 
                  TWO MEN WERE SMART; THEY FELT SMART; 
                THREE MEN WERE SMART; THEY ALL FELT SMART.

The better version is:

                   One smart feller, he felt smart.  
                  Two smart fellers, they felt smart.  
                Three smart fellers, they all felt smart.

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From: rhatch@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Richard Hatch)
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

               THE SIXTH SICK SHEIK'S SIXTH SHEEP'S SICK.


| Mail me here: Richard Hatch  | "Tact is the art of convincing people that  |
|  CS332101017@utsa86.utsa.edu |  they know more than they do.               |
|  rhatch@lonestar.utsa.edu    |                                             |
|  rhatch@ringer.cs.utsa.edu   |                  -Raymond Mortimer          |

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From: amorgan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Crunchy Frog)
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 00:46:26 GMT

  jxf13@po.CWRU.Edu (John Fischer) writes:  

                           TOY BOAT . . .

This one is actually easy if you know the trick.  Don't say "Toy Boat" lots
of times, say "Boat Toy" lots of times.  This actually works for me!

                "Rubber Baby Bugger Bumpers" Frog

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From: amo@cbnews.cb.att.com (arlene.m.osborne)
Date: 6 Apr 92 18:09:14 GMT
Organization: AT&T

In article <167C02867.NETOPREC@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu>, 
NETOPREC@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu writes:

               A SHEET IS SLIT, WHO SLIT THE SHEET, 
                   WHOEVER SLIT THE SHEET IS A 
                      DIRTY SHEET SLITTER.

I learned a slightly different tongue twister:

                  I SLIT A SHEET, A SHEET I SLIT 
                 AND ON THIS SLITTED SHEET I SIT.

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From: vs0r+@andrew.cmu.edu (Victor Dmitri Schoeman)
Date: 5 Apr 92 22:25:06 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon

How about trying to say: 

                   "REAL REAR WHEELS" 

. . . a few times quickly?  

(I actually came up with that one :-)   [Good for you! . . ed.]

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From: bobk@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Bob)
Date: 6 Apr 92 08:53:08 GMT
Organization: University of Washington

John Fischer (jxf13@po.CWRU.Edu) writes:
|
| Or, another:        

                        "BAD BLOOD"

That's only half of it.  This is the trickiest tongue twister I 
know of:

                    "GOOD BLOOD, BAD BLOOD."

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From: Robert Chambers <RMCCU@CUNYVM.BITNET>

How about:


                  "I chased a bug around a tree, 
               I'll have his blood he knows I will!"

This appeals more to English schoolboys (where I learned it).

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From: ajit@actrix.gen.nz (Ajit Rasiah)
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 11:29:33 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

I'm not sure if this one has already been on the net, but here
goes:

Betty bought some butter but the butter Betty bought was bitter
so Betty bought some better butter to make the bitter butter better
but the bitter butter made the better butter bitter.

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From: kho@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Ping Phing Kho)
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:33:46 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

How about:

Betty Botta bought some butter but the butter Betty Botta bought was bitter,
so Betty Botta bought some better butter to make the bitter butter better,
but the bitter butter made the better butter bitter; however, Betty Botta
bought abundant more better butter hoping to make her bitter butter better
with this extra better butter she just bought.

-Hopefully this is not a THREAD.... uuuggghhhh, can't stand it!!!!-

 .......[Oh well*...ed.]

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From: hubler@galaxy.lerc.nasa.gov (Dale Hubler)
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 12:20:37 GMT

                    Seven shell shocked soldiers 
          sawing six slick slender slippery silver saplings.

(Progress marches on, trampling everything in its path.)

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From: forda@gtephx.UUCP (Andrew Ford @ AGCS, Phoenix, Arizona)
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:18:44 GMT
Organization: gte

          Seven silly sailors saw seven slowly sinking ships.

(Ok, so it's been around for a while - I still like it.)

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From: jmcdrmtt@unix1.tcd.ie (Sean P. McDermott)
Date: 9 Apr 92 12:18:26 GMT
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin

Also an old one:

               'How much wood would a wood-chuck chuck 
                 if a wood-chuck could chuck wood ?'
 
         'A wood-chuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck, 
                  if a wood-chuck could chuck wood.'

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From: sprooney@unix1.tcd.ie (Simon Rooney)
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:26:24 GMT
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin

The best/worst ever still has to be: 

                    'Red leather, yellow leather'

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From: dowd@wisper.com (Kevin Dowd)
Date: 8 Apr 92 00:09:06 GMT
Organization: Wisper Technologies


                   I'm not a fig plucker's son, 
          but I'll pluck figs till the fig plucker comes!


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     \  //\  // ` ((   // ) ((/  //''      Wethersfield, Connecticut
      \//  \// //  )) //    ((/ //         USA 
 
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From: willegen@research.ptt.nl  (Christ van Willegen)
Date: 8 Apr 92 14:41:14 GMT

How about:

            The thief threw those things through the theatre.

(I can't even do it right!)

                    
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John Fischer
Case Western Reserve University 
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
jxf13@po.cwru.edu
 
-- 
John Fischer        
Case Western Reserve University (yes, its a place!)
Cleveland, Ohio
jxf13@po.cwru.edu
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