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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat's your favorite Spoonerism?
I've always liked "bat rastard." We used it in our early teens so we wouldn't get in trouble.
Then there's Ring Kichard the Thrid (which is not an anagram, although "A shroe, a shroe, my dingkom for a shroe" is).

Walleye
(42,877 posts)Steeply ugsisters siting around cheating ocolates and magging readazines
Oeditpus Rex
(43,040 posts)He was famous for those. He also did "The Pee Little Thrigs" and almost certainly some others. He was a regular on Hee Haw and, as Archie the Barber, would tell them to Roy Clark while pretending to cut his hair.
Let's see... Rindercella, her mugly other and her two sigly usters were all excited about the bancy fall given by the prandsone hince. But as Rindercella ran out when the clock struck midnight, she slopped her dripper. Later, the prandsome hince tried the dripper on the first sigly uster, and it fidn't dit. Then he tried it on the second sigly uster, and it fidn't dit. Finally, he tried it on Rindercella, and it fid dit.
That's all I can remember. Man, he broke me up back then. Manks for the themory.
Walleye
(42,877 posts)Oeditpus Rex
(43,040 posts)Also, I have great recall. Primarily for audio. There was a comedian who became persona non grata, but when I was like 13, I had his first seven albums memorized.
My other senses aren't nearly as good.
yorkster
(3,460 posts)Also back in the day in Gloucester MA at a restaurant called The Rudder, the owner, Evie, and her very funny daughters would do this entire routine.
Evie did the recitation, then would stand on her head.
One of the daughters would blast a trumpet.. then do balletic swoops across the "dining room". It was hilarious.
Thanks for a great memory prompt. I remember it as the "sisty uglers", but.there no doubt a few versions..
Walleye
(42,877 posts)Tanuki
(16,126 posts)and said he had "tasted two whole worms."
TheRickles
(2,997 posts)TheRickles
(2,997 posts)He said I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seagulls I leave no tern unstoned.
MaineBlueBear
(343 posts)Not directed at you
Intractable
(1,331 posts)Take Japper, his name is. Please take him.
unblock
(55,715 posts)Oeditpus Rex
(43,040 posts)My partner and I often use "silly bunt." It's from a Monty Python bit with a man (Eric Idle) who can't say the letter 'c' and substitutes 'b' for it.
underpants
(193,548 posts)Aristus
(71,138 posts)Can I sew you to a sheet in the chack of the burch?
Orrex
(66,241 posts)Orrex
(66,241 posts)ProfessorGAC
(74,889 posts)...a fun fact.
Bill Spooner, founding member of The Tubes, was a descendent of W.A Spooner, for whom the term was coined.
Oeditpus Rex
(43,040 posts)And I've been a Tubes fan since their first album. They should've written a song about Spoonerisms. I can imagine Fee singing it, rather like the game show host bit on "What Do You Want From Life?"
They coulda called him "Nutspik." 9r "Speverend Rutspik."
OldBaldy1701E
(9,357 posts)Imagine going to the weekly service and hearing him do this over and over.
ProfessorGAC
(74,889 posts)It would, indeed, be weird!
Iggo
(49,306 posts)And though not really spoonerisms, I also really like flipped phrases like:
George Birthingtons Washday.
Or the less obvious (because there are no wrong words):
Bottle in front of me versus Frontal lobotomy.
But yeah, Im a huge fan of the tenuously clever. (Hence my fondness of dad jokes.)
Oeditpus Rex
(43,040 posts)For at least half my life.
Iggo
(49,306 posts)Last edited Sun Oct 19, 2025, 08:12 PM - Edit history (1)

BWdem4life
(2,798 posts)He didn't make a spoonerism, but he spake a moonerism.
OldBaldy1701E
(9,357 posts)He was announcing the lineup for the evening, and he mentioned a movie whose name I cannot recall.
The movie starred Forrest Tucker.
The announcer was fired.
Oeditpus Rex
(43,040 posts)
This isn't at all a Spoonerism, but you reminded me. A DJ at a local oldies station years ago voiced a commercial for a video store. In saying what hot titles were in stock, he pronounced "Agnes" in Agnes of God with a soft 'g,' as if it were a 'j.'
That ad ran several times. I dunno why they didn't redo it. Somebody had to catch the goof.
catbyte
(38,088 posts)
3catwoman3
(27,972 posts)...as Hoobert Heever. I think my mom told me about this.
Oeditpus Rex
(43,040 posts)It was on radio. Might've been a spoof, like when Pat Paulsen said "President Johnston" and "President Nixton" on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.