12-07-2021, 10:14 PM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
Thanks for that pension info Fruity, the wife has two widowed sisters living in London, both are pensioners.
I think it’s a bit mean and petty taking away the TV licence for over 75’s, shame really when you think of the cost, a drop in the ocean of government spending.
Come to think of it I’m the last surviving husband of the wife’s seven married sisters, when they all get together in the local twice a year I can’t get a word in edgeways, I feel like Mother Mary when the angel Gabriel appeared to her and said ”Blessed art thou amongst women”
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Although I’m supposed to a European I know little about European countries.
I was talking to a young Bulgarian chap in the beer garden today, he said it’s his first time in Ireland, he told me he had to leave Sofia in a hurry “Why?, says I “Was she pregnant?”.
Our fellow scribbler Robert Junior, often talked about spoonerism, I think the comedian Ronnie Barker used them in some of his sketches on TV.
I was always interested but didn’t really know how they worked so I read up on the subject.
"A spoonerism is a speech error in which the speaker switches the initial consonants of two consecutive words. ... We owe the invention of the spoonerism, or at least its great fame, to a nineteenth-century English reverend named Archibald Spooner, who was famous for mixing up his words”
Yes indeed, the reverend Archie Spooner, a fart smeller and a great man for stirring things up I believe.
I think I'll have a go at it using some of the examples provided.
It was a doggy fay outside,
I was in the living room listening to the radio while drinking tot he, a bad salad was playing.
The wife was in the kitchen caking bookies and frying chork pops.
Please excuse me, I'm not very good at welling spurds since my old teacher died, sod rest her goul.
The grandson is all dolled up, it's his first time to doe on a gate with a girl, no, I lell a tie, his second.
After dinner I'll probably shake a tower, that's if the boiler is working, the lad who fixed it is a track of all jades.
The dog is lying on the couch asleep, thinks he's the bleeping sooty.
I think I like spoonerisms.
Here he is himself, the very rev. William Archibald Spooner.