One smart fellow, he felt smart. Two smart fellows, they felt smart. Three smart fellows, they all felt smart.
(You have to say it really really fast)
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
Another good one:
Say "Peggy Babcock" as fast as you can 5 times.
Posted by Evie3217 (Member # 5426) on :
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....
[ August 03, 2003, 04:09 PM: Message edited by: Evie3217 ]
Posted by Pixie (Member # 4043) on :
"Pitty Patty was pretty" 5 times fast. I can barely ever make it past the 2nd time LOL.
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
Evie,
That tongue twister is just evil!
Pix,
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...
[ August 03, 2003, 04:20 PM: Message edited by: Alucard... ]
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
I can't even say Peggy Babcock once...slow...
LOL!!!
Posted by Lissande (Member # 350) on :
Strc prst skrz krk.
(Stick a finger through your neck)
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. Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
There's no vowels! Posted by EllenM (Member # 5447) on :
If you have a lisp forget it.
Six sick slick slim sycamore saplings.
Posted by Lissande (Member # 350) on :
Dude. It wouldn't be a tongue twister if it weren't HARD. *zap*
And I want you to remember this next time I'm complaining about learning this language. Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Six sheet slitters slitting sheets. (theres more, but I can't remember)
Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
My two favorites are:
"Toy boat" - say that several times in rapid succession!
and
"Drunk dump truck driver"
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
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. Posted by EllenM (Member # 5447) on :
You mean like the two year old trying to say "truck". Posted by Gwynaria (Member # 5365) on :
Rubber baby buggy bumpers.
Posted by Hi (Member # 5289) on :
You all probably recognize this one:
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?
I remember memorizing that when I was seven.
Posted by Evie3217 (Member # 5426) on :
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
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
Reminds me of that episode of Pinky and the Brain... The Sheet-slitters and the Toy Boat...
Posted by EllenM (Member # 5447) on :
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.
Posted by tonguetied&twisted (Member # 5159) on :
"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! Posted by Evie3217 (Member # 5426) on :
Ahh....a classic:
How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck culd chuck wood?
A wood chuck would chuck as much as a wood chuck could chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood
Posted by Leonide (Member # 4157) on :
A box of biscuits
A box of mixed biscuits
A box of mixed biscuits and a biscuit mixer.
Posted by Evie3217 (Member # 5426) on :
Does anyone know the one that starts out: 1 *one word* 2 *two words*
etc. up to ten?
Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
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. Posted by divaesefani (Member # 3763) on :
quote: Six sheet slitters slitting sheets. (theres more, but I can't remember)
the one i learned was:
i slit a sheet, a sheet i slit, upon a slitted sheet i sit.
Posted by Cactus Jack (Member # 2671) on :
Seven Shining Soldiers.
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
I've been saying dirty words while reading this post. Don't make me have to report you all!
Posted by martha (Member # 141) on :
A classic vocal warmup for actors before they go onstage:
She stood on the balcony inexplicably mimicking his hiccuping while amicably welcoming him home.
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
In highschool a friend and I went walking the hallways before school building this one by adding one F-word to it at a time:
Fred Froom's Fabulous Fish Fry Factory is full of fresh frolicking fried fish fact.
Posted by Deidra (Member # 5455) on :
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.
Posted by pwiscombe (Member # 181) on :
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?
Posted by Audeo (Member # 5130) on :
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.
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Oh no no, this is the best one:
"Sven," said Ted Send ten tents "Ted," said Sven Send ten cents
When Ted sent Sven ten cents, Then Sven sent Ted ten tents!
Try and say THAT one 5 times fast Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :
The hardest one for me has always been "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick."
UofUlawguy
Posted by Toes (Member # 4603) on :
Leonide, I learned that one: A box of mixed biscuits, a mixed biscuit box.
and: ape cakes, grape cakes. The wood chuck one sure brings back memories. Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :
Say 'Unique New York' several times in a row very quickly.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
red lorry yellow lolly
(over and over)
Posted by Magson (Member # 2300) on :
The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
Posted by Vána (Member # 3262) on :
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.)
Posted by asQmh (Member # 4590) on :
Evie, I learned the drunk duck song, but I learned it differently - as in with completely different verses. My favorite of which is:
"As one purple porpoise popped up the pole, another purple porpoise popped down." etc.
Love that song, tho. It's a camp tradition at CRYC where I volunteer in the summers.
Q.
Posted by Jill (Member # 3376) on :
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.
Thelma sings the theme song.
Posted by TwosonPaula (Member # 5511) on :
TSmith and Diva:
I learned it this way:
I'm a sheet slitter and I slit sheets I'm the best sheet slitter that ever slit sheets. Wow that's even hard to type .
(I like diva's way better tho.)
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
Bump
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
A kiss.
And tt&t.
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
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.
"basu gasu bakuhatsu basu gasu bakuhatsu basu gasu bakuhatsu"
Posted by MidnightBlue (Member # 6146) on :
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.
Posted by MidnightBlue (Member # 6146) on :
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?
Posted by Kiwi (Member # 7982) on :
I had to read that several times to get the connection. It's either late, or I'm blonde.
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
Read what?
Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :
"You were a . . . military man, weren't you, Fred?" said Carrot, as the parade passed by.
"Yes, sir. Duke of Eorle's First Heavy Infantry, sir. The Pheasant Pluckers."
"Pardon?" said Angua.
"Nickname for the regiment, miss. . . . "
"We even had a marching song," he said. "Mind you, it was quite hard to sing right."
(From Jingo, by Terry Pratchett)
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Another one you have to be careful of when you say:
She slit the sheet The sheet she slit And on the slitted sheet she sits
Posted by Kiwi (Member # 7982) on :
Your post.
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
Thought so. Posted by Kiwi (Member # 7982) on :
Posted by Astaril (Member # 7440) on :
I always found the hardest one for me to be "The Leeth police dismisseth us". Similar to the sick sheik's sheep one.
On the other hand, I always found the easiest to be "A proper cup of coffee from a proper copper coffee pot", but others seemed to have trouble with it.
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