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Alucard...
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My personal favorite:

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)

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Another good one:

Say "Peggy Babcock" as fast as you can 5 times.

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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.... [Wall Bash]

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Pixie
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"Pitty Patty was pretty" 5 times fast. I can barely ever make it past the 2nd time LOL.
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Evie,

That tongue twister is just evil! [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... [Dont Know]

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I can't even say Peggy Babcock once...slow...

LOL!!!

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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. [Evil]

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There's no vowels! [Eek!]
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If you have a lisp forget it.

Six sick slick slim sycamore saplings.

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Lissande
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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. [Smile]

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Six sheet slitters slitting sheets. (theres more, but I can't remember)
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My two favorites are:

"Toy boat" - say that several times in rapid succession! [Taunt]

and

"Drunk dump truck driver"

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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. [Smile]

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You mean like the two year old trying to say "truck". [Smile]
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[Smile] Rubber baby buggy bumpers.
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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.

[Wave]

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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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Reminds me of that episode of Pinky and the Brain... The Sheet-slitters and the Toy Boat...
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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! [Wink] [Razz] [Wink]

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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

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A box of biscuits

A box of mixed biscuits

A box of mixed biscuits and a biscuit mixer.

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Does anyone know the one that starts out:
1 *one word*
2 *two words*

etc. up to ten?

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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. [Smile]

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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.

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Seven Shining Soldiers.
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I've been saying dirty words while reading this post. Don't make me have to report you all!

[ROFL]

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A classic vocal warmup for actors before they go onstage:

She stood on the balcony inexplicably mimicking his hiccuping while amicably welcoming him home.

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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.

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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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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 [Taunt]

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The hardest one for me has always been "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick."

UofUlawguy

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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. [Smile]

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Say 'Unique New York' several times in a row very quickly.
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red lorry
yellow lolly

(over and over)

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The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
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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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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.

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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.

Thelma sings the theme song.

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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.)

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Bump
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A kiss.

And tt&t.

[Razz]

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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.

This one's fun too, lots of tr's:
Trentatré Trentini entrarono a Trento, tutti e trentatré, trotterellando.

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"basu gasu bakuhatsu basu gasu bakuhatsu basu gasu bakuhatsu"
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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. [Smile]

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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I had to read that several times to get the connection. It's either late, or I'm blonde.

[Razz]

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Read what?
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