tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu May 07 00:14:31 1998
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Re: MO about fork and spoon
- From: Irene A Gates <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: MO about fork and spoon
- Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 03:11:05 -0400
> As I remember, Rev. Spooner's most famous example was
> "Someone is occupewing my pie," which is, in fact, not quite a
> spoonerism as we now know them. A better example is "You hissed
> the mystery lesson." [...]
It was a rebuke to a student of his: "You hissed all my mystery lessons and
tasted three worms."
> charghwI'
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Irene A Gates <[email protected]>
Burlington, Ontario, Canada Aviculturist and linguaphile
"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person
and everybody else." -- George Bernard Shaw