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Oeditpus Rex

(43,040 posts)
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 07:12 AM Saturday

What'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).

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What's your favorite Spoonerism? (Original Post) Oeditpus Rex Saturday OP
I remember a novelty record from a long time ago of Cinderella being told the spoonerisms Walleye Saturday #1
Archie Campbell Oeditpus Rex Saturday #7
Very good recall there! Yes I laughed my guts at at that record. Walleye Saturday #8
Humor has long been known to really help memory Oeditpus Rex Saturday #9
I have a dim memory of seeing Elaine Stritch doing that version on the telly long ago. yorkster Saturday #14
Great memory! That does sound hilarious. I know I laughed at that record long enough Walleye Saturday #15
The real Rev. Spooner allegedly reproached a wayward student Tanuki Saturday #2
Isn't he the meticulous guy who, when walking along the beach, would leave no tern unstoned? TheRickles Saturday #3
Nope, that was Ogden Nash. TheRickles Saturday #10
Go buck a fuffalo MaineBlueBear Saturday #4
There's this guy on CNN ... Intractable Saturday #5
Mrs. Unblock's favorite is "Cupid stunt" unblock Saturday #6
Oooh, I gotta remember that Oeditpus Rex Saturday #12
Back asswards underpants Saturday #11
"Mardon me, Pedame, but this pie is occupewed. Aristus Saturday #13
A friend of mine used to say "it's a mucking firacle." Orrex Saturday #16
Friar Tuck. Orrex Saturday #17
Don't Have A Favorite, But... ProfessorGAC Saturday #18
OMG! I never thought of that! Oeditpus Rex Saturday #20
Also, W. A. Spooner was a man of the cloth. OldBaldy1701E Sunday #22
Yeah, I Knew That ProfessorGAC Sunday #24
Fam Damily. Iggo Saturday #19
I've been using "the whole famned damily" Oeditpus Rex Sunday #28
Yep. Got it from some old dude when I was a kid. Iggo Sunday #30
Ya hear about the first man on the moon? BWdem4life Saturday #21
Well, I did read a story about an announcer who suffered an attack on live television. OldBaldy1701E Sunday #23
... Oeditpus Rex Sunday #29
Back asswards catbyte Sunday #25
I remember hearing about someone introducing the 31st POTUS... 3catwoman3 Sunday #26
I've heard that Oeditpus Rex Sunday #27

Walleye

(42,877 posts)
1. I remember a novelty record from a long time ago of Cinderella being told the spoonerisms
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 07:35 AM
Saturday

Steeply ugsisters siting around cheating ocolates and magging readazines

Oeditpus Rex

(43,040 posts)
7. Archie Campbell
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 08:03 AM
Saturday

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.

Oeditpus Rex

(43,040 posts)
9. Humor has long been known to really help memory
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 08:10 AM
Saturday

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)
14. I have a dim memory of seeing Elaine Stritch doing that version on the telly long ago.
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 10:38 AM
Saturday

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..

Tanuki

(16,126 posts)
2. The real Rev. Spooner allegedly reproached a wayward student
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 07:41 AM
Saturday

and said he had "tasted two whole worms."

TheRickles

(2,997 posts)
3. Isn't he the meticulous guy who, when walking along the beach, would leave no tern unstoned?
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 07:47 AM
Saturday

TheRickles

(2,997 posts)
10. Nope, that was Ogden Nash.
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 08:21 AM
Saturday

He said “I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seagulls I leave no tern unstoned.”

Oeditpus Rex

(43,040 posts)
12. Oooh, I gotta remember that
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 08:35 AM
Saturday

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.

Aristus

(71,138 posts)
13. "Mardon me, Pedame, but this pie is occupewed.
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 09:44 AM
Saturday

Can I sew you to a sheet in the chack of the burch?”

ProfessorGAC

(74,889 posts)
18. Don't Have A Favorite, But...
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 04:43 PM
Saturday

...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)
20. OMG! I never thought of that!
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 05:25 PM
Saturday

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)
22. Also, W. A. Spooner was a man of the cloth.
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 09:52 AM
Sunday

Imagine going to the weekly service and hearing him do this over and over.

Iggo

(49,306 posts)
19. Fam Damily.
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 05:03 PM
Saturday

And though not really spoonerisms, I also really like flipped phrases like:

George Birthington’s Washday.

Or the less obvious (because there are no wrong words):

Bottle in front of me versus Frontal lobotomy.

But yeah, I’m a huge fan of the tenuously clever. (Hence my fondness of dad jokes.)

BWdem4life

(2,798 posts)
21. Ya hear about the first man on the moon?
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 07:33 PM
Saturday

He didn't make a spoonerism, but he spake a moonerism.

OldBaldy1701E

(9,357 posts)
23. Well, I did read a story about an announcer who suffered an attack on live television.
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 09:54 AM
Sunday

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)
29. ...
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 05:20 PM
Sunday


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.

3catwoman3

(27,972 posts)
26. I remember hearing about someone introducing the 31st POTUS...
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 04:26 PM
Sunday

...as Hoobert Heever. I think my mom told me about this.

Oeditpus Rex

(43,040 posts)
27. I've heard that
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 04:54 PM
Sunday

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.

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