Posted on 07/22/2005 5:46:55 AM PDT by Aquamarine
[Think we all wish we could be adopted into your great family!]
It comes from William Spooner's name, right? The English educator.
Ah, that is very sweet, but I know that you all have great families too :-) But we will 'adopt' anyone who wants to be part of the clan :-) Yes, Moe took that photograph. How are you doing?
"Spooner was an albino, small, with a pink face, poor eyesight, and a head too large for his body. His reputation was that of a genial, kindly, hospitable man.
Spooner seems to have been something of an absent-minded professor. He once invited a faculty member to tea "to welcome our new archaeology Fellow." "But, sir," the man replied, "I am our new archaeology Fellow." "Never mind," Spooner said, "Come all the same."
Spooner has become famous for his "spoonerisms", funny mis-statements that result from the transposition of initial consonants. Few if any of his own spoonerisms were deliberate, and many of those attributed to him are apocryphal. Spooner himself hated the reputation he gained for getting his words muddled."
Oh man! hahaha.
I had heard of spoonerisms before, but I can't remember exactly what they are off the top of my head. But what you described about William Spooner sounds familiar.
LOL, very funny!! What I love is that he was obviously a very intelligent guy, making me love it that much more :-)
As a N.Y. Yankee fan, I am thinking of Yogiism's
What are Spoonerisms?
Spoonerisms are phrases, sentences, or words in language with swapped sounds. Usually this happens by accident, particularly if you're speaking fast. Come and wook out of the lindow is an example.
More examples:
1. Drain Bamage
2. Bater Wottle
3. Right Facism
4. Sparking Pace
5. Bass Ackwards
6. Chilled Greese
7. Joking Smacket
8. Teepy Slime
9. West Bestern
"Always go to other people's funerals otherwise they won't go to yours"
LOL
And lol at all the spoonerism's you posted
Another from Yogi: "Baseball is 90% mental. The other half is physical."
Thank you Gabz!
"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore" LOL!
Must be the Florida roots, but I don't mind summer, able to enjoy the fruits of the Spring labor in the flower beds..:))
Although I've had to scale way back, it still is effective and pleasing.
The medium height zinnias are blooming nicely on either side of the lantata plants in the front bed.
A strange thing, though - in the long raised bed between two large trees, I two years ago planted hostas down the center, perennials appearing again the next year, flanking them with bedding plants that do well in shade - usually red and white begonias.
This year, I merely cleaned the bed.
Every other of the 7 1/2 years we've lived here, in February violets sprang forth and were lovely until May - then died back in the heat.
THIS year, though, I went out to transplant ones that were strewn outside the bed to fill the one end that is 'less lush.'
That done, they all somehow have survived and are still flourishing this year!! No blooms, of course, but the Lord provided cover for the barren areas!
Or - Berra-isms??
When asked what makes a good manager of a baseball team, he said "A good ball club"
When asked what time it is, he said "What? You mean right now?"
When he was asked if first baseman Don Mattingly had exceeded expectations, Yogi said "I'd say he's done more than that!"
His wife Carmen asked where he would like to be buried, to the reply "Surprise me!"
He was told that he looked cool in his summer suit by the Mayor of New York's wife, and he said "You don't look so hot yourself"
At a dinner in an Italian restaurant, he was asked how many slices should be cut in his pizza, and he replied "You better make it four, I don't think I could eat eight"
"When you get to a fork in the road, take it."
A winner!!
Wonderful! Very, very nice :-) I don't know how you do all you do! I worked so hard on my garden, and it is not looking so great right now, maybe all the hot, humid weather...lol, or maybe I don't have a green thumb! My morning glories look pathetic, my moon flowers look pathetic. My cosmos look pathetic. Wave petunia's...they are gone LOL Impatients are doing OK. Planted hostas for the first time this year, they look OK. My snowball plant (pink) is pretty. LOL, harvested about 10 strawberries, yes 10 ...Planted a bleeding heart, it is doing great...
This is not an actual photo of my plant :-)
After this VERY BUSY week=end I will write to you re: dating etc. okay? Will send a very quick FReepmail tonight. hugaroos
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