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When one drunk duck dropped into the ditch The other drunk duck dropped dead When one drunk duck dropped into the ditch The other drunk duck dropped dead When one drunk duck dropped into the ditch The other drunk duck dropped dead When one drunk duck dropped into the ditch The other drunk duck dropped dead Glory Glory how peculiar Glory Glory how peculiar Glory Glory how peculiar When one drunk duck dropped into the ditch The other drunk duck dropped dead
Sung to the melody of Glory Halleluia
(And that's only one verse!)
The other verses go: When one sly snake slid up the slide The other sly snake slid down
And:
When one black bug bled blue-black blood The other black bug bled blue
Wow, they're even hard to write, let alone say!
And I owe all of this useless knowledge to girl scouts....
I can get there if I read it. I wonder if reading them makes it easier than if you have to recall them using auditory learning skills and then attempt to say them...
Pronounced exactly like it looks, except the c in strc should have a diacritic mark like a v over it to make it an English 'ch' sound. Note that the goal in Czech tongue twisters isn't to say them as fast as possible; it's to say them at all.
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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers? If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
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Betty Boughta bought some butter. "But," said she, "this butter's bitter. If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter." So she bought some better butter: better than the bitter butter. Made her bitter batter better. So, t'was better Betty Boughta bought a bit of better butter.
This is what I get for being in drama for so long..... I need to get a life
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Remember this from the Brady Bunch.... poor Cindy.
She sells sea shells by the sea shore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells on the seashore, I'm sure she sells seashore shells.
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"One sock cutter, he cuts socks. Two sock cutters, they cut socks. Three sock cutters..."
One person says each line. Every time you say it wrong, you drink... which makes it so very much easier to say!
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Six slick slimy snakes slowly slithered southward.
I won ten cents in a college speech class one time because I was the only one brave enough to give this one a try. Not only did I attempt it, but I got through it correctly the first time. But I had a secret: I had several years of speech therapy in elementary school because I had a lisp. It helped a lot when it comes to speech tricks like this.
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I always liked the one about how much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood...my anantomy teacher taught it to me.
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I'm reminded of the man who was camping in the Pacific Northwest when he was accosted by large Bigfoot. In the ensuing struggle, the man's Rolex was stripped from his wrist. The Bigfoot then turned and ran off, pausing only to throw something back at the man. It turned out to be a Timex.
So the man had to ask himself:
How many watches could a Sasquatch switch If a Sasquatch could switch watches?
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The variation that I learned when I was seven:
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper Pick?
Then everyone counts how many times you can say it with out messing up and that's naturally the answer.
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When I was little, my brother and I made this one up around Christmas time:
There were wide red ribbons on Rick's wagon wheels.
(Rick's Market had wagon wheels on either side of the driveway, as decorations, and at Christmas he put, well, big red bows on them. Hence the tounge twister. We were quite proud of ourselves, too.)
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Oh gosh, don't ask this of an actor... I know so many! Here's a few:
To sit in solemn silence on 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.
I am not the fig plucker, I am the fig plucker’s son, And I am only plucking figs Until the fig plucker comes. (careful saying this one aloud)
The lips, the teeth, the tip of the tongue. The tip of the tongue, the teeth, the lips.
Desperate Donald died the death of a drunken dastardly dog.
Admidst the mists and coldest frosts, With stoutest wrists and loudest boasts, He thrusts his fists against the posts, And still insists he sees the ghosts.
Moses supposes his toeses are roses, but Moses supposes erroneously. For nobody’s toeses are poesies or roses As Moses supposes his toeses to be.
For sheep soup, shoot sheep.
Heather was hoping to hop to Tahiti To hack a hibiscus to hang on her hat. Now Heather has hundreds of hats on her hat rack. So how can a hop to Tahiti help that?
Red Leather, Yellow Leather
Aluminum linoleum
A big black bug bit a big black bear and made the big black bear bleed blue blood.
The soothing sea ceaseth and thus the seething sea recedeth.
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These are a couple that we had in Italian 101:
O schiavo con lo schiaccianoci che cosa schiacci? Schiaccio sei noci del vecchio noce con lo schiaccianoci.
Il cuoco cuoce in cucina e dice che la cuoca giace e tace perchè sua cugina non dica che le piace cuocere in cucina col cuoco.
It's hard when you're first learning Italian because the schi makes a ski sound and a ci makes a chee sound. Definately not something anyone who speaks English is used to verbalizing.
quote:Originally posted by sndrake: My personal all time favorite:
I'm a pleasant mother pheasant plucker; I'm the pleasantest mother pheasant plucker that ever plucked a mother pheasant.
Just a word to the wise - be very careful who you try this around, just in case.
I learned that one as: I'm a mother pheasant plucker I pluck mother pheasants I'm the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker that ever plucked a mother pheasant.
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quote:To sit in solemn silence on 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.
I was trying to think of this one, but as a techie you don't hear them as often as the actors and you certainly don't say them as often.
Another favorite:
A tutor who tuted the flute Tried to tutor two tooters to toot Said the two to the tutor Is it harder to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?
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