Trying tongue twisters...

[w4bgn]

Some of us in the local area were trying tongue twisters the other night on the 2 meter repeater. Sooo funny, hearing these guys and gals trying to say them without messing up...

Has anyone ever tried this on their local repeater??? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[wa4brl]

Try this one -- easy enough to say, but compete for fastest speed while not riling Reilly. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

How many sheets
Could a sheet slitter slit
If a sheet slitter
Could slit sheets


You might want to practice a bit before going on the air with it... http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[KG6YTZ]

I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, upon a slitted sheet I sit. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[ae4fa]

I'm a smart fella

I'm a fella smart

It takes a smart fella

To make a fella smart.

[KG6YTZ]

Google is my friend... #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

Quote[/b] ]Betty Botter bought some butter
But she said the butter's bitter,
If I put it in my batter
It will make my batter bitter,
But a bit of better butter
Will make my batter better,
So she bought some better butter
Better than the bitter butter,
And she put it in her batter
And her batter was not bitter,
So 'twas better Betty Botter
Bought a bit of better butter.
Not quite the way I've heard it before, but what the hooey anyway. #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Betty Botter bought a bit of butter. #"But," she said, "this butter's bitter. #If I put it in my batter, it'll make my batter bitter." #So Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter, and it made her bitter batter better.

Bababooey. #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[KG6YTZ]

Quote[/b] (ae4fa @ April 22 2007,04:35)]I'm a smart fella

I'm a fella smart

It takes a smart fella

To make a fella smart.
Burma Shave. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[K8EEI]

The sixth Shiek's sixth sheep's sick

Big black bugs bleed black blood

[WF7A]

Just pick a Chinese or eastern Indian name out of a phone book--that's enough to tie your tongue in knots right there!

[K8EEI]

That sounds like Fun .......that's my Chinese neighbor's middle name . http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[N0KLT]

I learned this from a couple of radio DJs. They said various stations would occasionally have contests that would be having viewers write in tongue twisters to the station and if the guys would screw up the tongue twister on the air, the person sending it in would win something. They said whoever sent this one in got a prize without the thing ever hitting the airways and they were threatened by management if they tried the thing on the air they would be fired. Of course this was 40+ yrs ago when stations were a lot more strict about what was said on the air.

The tongue twister goes like this:

I am not a fig plucker
I am a fig plucker's son
and I will pluck figs
until the fig plucker comes.

It is a great bar bet winner. It helps when you challange someone to say it after you if you add 'now don't think about pigs when you say this'. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[KI4PEQ]

Some of the best on air 'incidents' happen quite by accident.

"It's five o'clock, and you're listening to WIOD, Miami. Now it's time for a recrap of the news."

[kl7aj]

The witch's Swiss wristwatch

[N2RJ]

Quote[/b] (WF7A @ April 22 2007,12:12)]Just pick a Chinese or eastern Indian name out of a phone book--that's enough to tie your tongue in knots right there!
Like mine?

[wa4brl]

Quote[/b] (AB2MH @ April 23 2007,14:27)]Quote[/b] (WF7A @ April 22 2007,12:12)]Just pick a Chinese or eastern Indian name out of a phone book--that's enough to tie your tongue in knots right there!
Like mine?
Is that pronounced like that Percy Maxim guy? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[KI4PEQ]

Quote[/b] (wa4brl @ April 23 2007,20:52)]Quote[/b] (AB2MH @ April 23 2007,14:27)]Quote[/b] (WF7A @ April 22 2007,12:12)]Just pick a Chinese or eastern Indian name out of a phone book--that's enough to tie your tongue in knots right there!
Like mine?
Is that pronounced like that Percy Maxim guy? # http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
Only if you speak in machine gun sentences.

[KG6YTZ]

Quote[/b] (K8EEI @ April 22 2007,11:14)]That sounds like Fun .......that's my Chinese neighbor's middle name . #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
Won Fun Gai?

[n0jaa]

Heard this from a show with Jack Webb and Johnny Carson in 1968...

Cleaning woman Clara Clifford discovered kleptomaniac Claude Cooper from Cleveland copped clean copper clappers kept in the closet.

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[kl7aj]

The witch's Swiss wristwatch


http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[kc0vuv]

red leather
yellow leather


from Good Morning Vietnam...

[N9XR]

If God manned quad band antennas
And Maude banned bad baud controllas
God ‘n Maude applaud banned broad’s broadband Motorola’s.
Atchew!

[k4idx]

She sells seashells on the seashore

(Say 3 times really fast...betcha can't!)

[N9XR]

Quote[/b] (k4idx @ May 11 2007,12:37)]She sells seashells on the seashore

(Say 3 times really fast...betcha can't!)
I come from Kansas. I can't say anything real fast.

[W2ILP]

To sit in solemn silince in a dull dark, dock,
In a pestilential prison, with a life long lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
#--W.S. Gilbert--

Those who auditioned for the roles of Ko-Ko, Pooh-Bah or Pish-Tush
in the operatta "The Mikado", had to sing the above tounge twister five times at increasingly quick tempo, without missing a word.

I can do it but I didn't get the part....brcause I can't sing in tune....I think.

w2ilp (I Lost Part)...but I didn't lose a word or cue.

[W2ILP]

In New York if we can't talk fast we have to yell loud! This is because of overpopulation which results in always competng with a pileup!

w2ilp (Increasingly Loud Pileups)...much louder than hog callen'.

[K7KBN]

I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical,
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;
I 'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news #
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.

With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse;
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse;
With many cheerful facts about the square of the
hypotenuse.


I'm very good at integral and differential calculus,
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous;
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
He is the very model of a modern Major-General


I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,
I quote in elegaic all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous.

I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies,
I know the coaking chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanes,
Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore,
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.

And whistle all the airs, etc.

Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform,
And tell you every detail of Caractacus's uniform;
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
He is the very model of a modern Major-General

In fact, when I know what is meant by 'mamelon' and 'ravelin,'
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin,
When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at,
And when I know precisely what is meant by 'commissariat,'

When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery,
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery;
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy,
You'll say a better Major-General had never sat a gee. -

You'll say a better, etc.


For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury,
Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century;
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
He is the very model of a modern Major-General!

...Gilbert & Sullivan
Tempo di on the double

[W2LYS]

Try saying toy boat three times fast....

[wa4brl]

big black rubber baby buggy bumpers

(three times fast)

[KG6YTZ]

Quote[/b] (n0jaa @ May 11 2007,13:17)]Cleaning woman Clara Clifford discovered kleptomaniac Claude Cooper from Cleveland copped clean copper clappers kept in the closet.
"If I ever catch Claude Cooper, the kleptomaniac from Cleveland who copped the clean copper clappers kept in the closet...'

"Yes?"

"I'LL CLOBBER HIM."

[k4idx]

Quote[/b] (W2LYS @ May 11 2007,22:13)]Try saying toy boat three times fast....
LOL...that may just be the only two word tongue twister out there! You're right though, I can't do it!

Good one:)

[w4bgn]

WOOO!!!! I never thought the topic I posted would get so many replies...

73's to all
W4BGN

[k4kyv]

Quote[/b] ]Betty Botter bought some butter
But she said the butter's bitter,
If I put it in my batter
It will make my batter bitter,
But a bit of better butter
Will make my batter better,
So she bought some better butter
Better than the bitter butter,
And she put it in her batter
And her batter was not bitter,
So 'twas better Betty Botter
Bought a bit of better butter.
Quote[/b] ]Betty Botter bought a bit of butter. "But," she said, "this butter's bitter. If I put it in my batter, it'll make my batter bitter." So Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter, and it made her bitter batter better.

Petit pot de beurre, quand te dépetitpotdebeurreriseras-tu?

Je me dépetitpotdebeurreriserai quand tous les autres petits pots de beurre se dépetitpotdebeurreriseront!

[G4ZMY]

Quote[/b] (N0KLT @ April 22 2007,13:25)]I learned this from a couple of radio DJs. They said various stations would occasionally have contests that would be having viewers write in tongue twisters to the station and if the guys would screw #up the tongue twister on the air, the person sending it in would win something. They said whoever sent this one in got a prize without the thing ever hitting the airways and they were threatened by management if they tried the thing on the air they would be fired. Of course this was 40+ yrs ago when stations were a lot more strict about what was said on the air.

The tongue twister goes like this:

I am not a fig plucker
I am a fig plucker's son
and I will pluck figs
until the fig plucker comes.

It is a great bar bet winner. It helps when you challange someone to say it after you if you add 'now don't think about pigs when you say this'. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
Over here its known as:
I'm not a pheasant plucker
I'm the pheasant pluckers son
I'm only plucking pheasants
'til the pheasant plucker comes.


grr.couldn't even type it properly, yet alone say it without swearing. LOL http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif