Date: 12/06/2012 16:24:05
From: bob(from black rock)
ID: 163872
Subject: Spoonerisms

The other day in the Chat thread Spoonerisms came up and it reminded me of two things, one was from a book called “To Aunty With Love” where a BBC announcer is reading the News and one of his mates had altered his text, he read out “And the Chief Kenstable of Cu, I’m sorry I’ll read that again, The Chief Constable of Kent said——

The other thing that it reminded me of was “Rindercella”, the ABC put this to air back in the early ’70s and I just couldn’t believe my ears at the time, I will have a look and see if I can find this too.

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Date: 12/06/2012 16:27:29
From: bob(from black rock)
ID: 163873
Subject: re: Spoonerisms

“Found it”

This is the story of Rindercella and her sugly isters.

Rindercella and her sugly isters lived in a marge lansion. Rindercella worked very hard frubbing sloors, emptying poss pits, and shivelling shot.

At the end of the day, she was knucking fackered.

The sugly isters were right bugly astards. One was called Mary Hinge, and the other was called Betty Swallocks; they were really forrible huckers; they had fetty sweet and fetty swannies. The sugly isters had tickets to go to the ball, but the cotton runts would not let Rindercella go.

Suddenly there was a bucking fang, and her gairy fodmother appeared. Her name was Shairy Hithole and she was a light rucking fesbian. She turned a pumpki and six mite wice into a hucking cuge farriage with six dandy ronkeys who had buge hollocks and dig bicks

The gairy fodmother told Rindercella to be back by dimnlight otherwise, there would be a cucking falamity.

At the ball, Rindercella was dancing with the prandsome hince when suddenly the clock struck twelve. “Mist all chucking frighty!!!” said Rindercella, and she ran out tripping barse over ollocks, so dropping her slass glipper.

The very next day the prandsome hince knocked on Rindercella’s door and the
sugly isters let him in. Suddenly, Betty Swallocks lifted her leg and let off a fig bart. “Who’s fust jarted??” asked the prandsome hince. “Blame that fugly ucker over there!!”
said Mary Hinge. When the stinking brown cloud had lifted, he tried the slass glipper on both the sugly isters without success and their feet stucking funk.

Betty Swallocks was ducking fisgusted and gave the prandsome hince a knack in the kickers. This was not difficult as he had bucking fuge halls and a hig bard on.

He tried the slass glipper on Rindercella and it fitted pucking ferfectly.

Rindercella and the prandsome hince were married. The pransome hince lived his life in lucking fuxury, and Rindercella lived hers with a follen swanny.

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Date: 12/06/2012 17:14:10
From: Skeptic Pete
ID: 163887
Subject: re: Spoonerisms

The other thing that it reminded me of was “Rindercella”,
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Sounds like a Two Ronnies skit to me.

They were masters of spoonerisms

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Date: 12/06/2012 17:16:27
From: Divine Angel
ID: 163888
Subject: re: Spoonerisms

Says Peptic Skeet.

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Date: 12/06/2012 17:19:58
From: jj
ID: 163891
Subject: re: Spoonerisms

beat this one :)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jim-naughtie-gaffe-today-programme-267598

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Date: 13/06/2012 11:55:24
From: Wocky
ID: 164140
Subject: re: Spoonerisms

Skeptic Pete said:


The other thing that it reminded me of was “Rindercella”,
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Sounds like a Two Ronnies skit to me.

They were masters of spoonerisms

While the Two Ronnies writers were very good at spoonerisms, the Rindercella sketch was written and performed by Archie Campbell; much of his other work was based on spoonerisms, too.

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Date: 13/06/2012 19:39:02
From: AussieDJ
ID: 164231
Subject: re: Spoonerisms

It was a pleasant enough novelty song, but it didn’t last long in the music charts when it came out. Possibly because it didn’t get much airplay, with station managers terrified that we jocks would deliberately, or otherwise, Spoonerise the title …

The Barrow Poets, with the Pheasant Pluckers Song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m09eEgy2Zhk&feature=related

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Date: 15/06/2012 12:20:36
From: bob(from black rock)
ID: 164654
Subject: re: Spoonerisms

AussieDJ The Barrow Poets, with the Pheasant Pluckers Song.

I had forgotten that one, brilliant.

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Date: 15/06/2012 12:31:19
From: Boris
ID: 164658
Subject: re: Spoonerisms

while not a spoonerism victor borge did some excellent work.

JACK AND THE TWODERFUL BEANS

Twice upon a time there lived a boy named Jack in the twoderful land of Califivenia. Two day Jack, a double-minded lad, decided three go fifth three seek his fivetune.

After making sure that Jack nine a sandwich and drank some Eight-Up, his mother elevenderly said, “Threedeloo, threedeloo. Try three be back by next Threesday.” Then she cheered, “Three, five, seven, nine. Who do we apprecinine? Jack, Jack, yay!”

Jack set fifth and soon met a man wearing a four-piece suit and a threepee. Fifthrightly Jack asked the man, “I’m a Califivenian. Are you two three?”

“Cerelevenly,” replied the man, offiving the high six. “Anytwo five elevennis?”

“Not threeday,” answered Jack inelevently. “But can you help me three locnine my fivetune?”

“Sure,” said the man. “Let me sell you these twoderful beans.”

Jack’s inthreeition told him that the man was a three-faced triple-crosser. Elevensely Jack shouted, “I’m not behind the nine ball. I’m a college gradunine, and I know what rights our fivefathers crenined in the Constithreetion. Now let’s get down three baseven about these beans.”

The man tripled over with laughter. “Now hold on a third,” he responded. “There’s no need three make such a three-do about these beans. If you twot, I’ll give them three you.”

Well, there’s no need three elabornine on the rest of the tale. Jack oned in on the giant and two the battle for the golden eggs. His mother and he lived happily fivever after — and so on, and so on, and so fifth.

http://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume7/v7i1/lederer-borge-7-1.html

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Date: 15/06/2012 13:03:50
From: jj
ID: 164663
Subject: re: Spoonerisms

Did you guys hear this one .. real time on the BBC recently.

:)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jim-naughtie-gaffe-today-programme-267598

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Date: 15/06/2012 13:08:59
From: AussieDJ
ID: 164667
Subject: re: Spoonerisms

bob(from black rock) said:


AussieDJ The Barrow Poets, with the Pheasant Pluckers Song.

I had forgotten that one, brilliant.

Available if you want an emailed copy … or you can find the same version on youchoob.

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Date: 15/06/2012 13:13:55
From: buffy
ID: 164668
Subject: re: Spoonerisms

And in the pheasant plucker tradition…..a dozen damask dinner napkins….although that’s more of a tongue twister really.

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Date: 15/06/2012 13:14:32
From: buffy
ID: 164669
Subject: re: Spoonerisms

Now we can tell who used to listen to Peter whatsisname on 3LO all those years ago.

:)

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Date: 15/06/2012 13:16:15
From: AussieDJ
ID: 164670
Subject: re: Spoonerisms

jj said:


Did you guys hear this one .. real time on the BBC recently.

:)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jim-naughtie-gaffe-today-programme-267598

There’s a classic from years ago of an ABC newsreader getting tangled up while reading an item about a woman being bitten on the finger by a funnel-web spider. That’s how it should have come out … instead, listeners heard about the poor victim being bitten on the funnel by a finger-web spider.

(Note to self: Do a proper search and find all your old blooper tapes. You last saw them two house moves ago :( )

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Date: 15/06/2012 13:16:40
From: AussieDJ
ID: 164671
Subject: re: Spoonerisms

buffy said:

Now we can tell who used to listen to Peter whatsisname on 3LO all those years ago.

:)

Peter Evans.

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Date: 15/06/2012 13:17:25
From: bob(from black rock)
ID: 164672
Subject: re: Spoonerisms

>>>Peter whatsisname? Evans? I think buffy

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Date: 15/06/2012 13:23:00
From: AussieDJ
ID: 164674
Subject: re: Spoonerisms

buffy said:

Now we can tell who used to listen to Peter whatsisname on 3LO all those years ago.

:)

Many years ago, I worked as a breakfast announcer at 3SH in Swan Hill. I discovered I could tune in and hear Peter Evans on 3LO, and Clive Robertson on the ABC equivalent in Sydney, 2BL.

I got progressively later and later each morning as I was listening to those two as they started their programs … they started at 0500 … mine was due to start at 0530, but with 10-15 minutes of ‘test program’ beforehand. At times, there was no ‘test program’ to be heard on 3SH when either Mr Evans or Mr Robertson were being particularly funny.

Aside: A bit later on, I moved on to be the morning announcer at 3NE at Wangaratta. I discovered that the brekky announcer there had patched an off-air reciever into his console, and was listeneing to Peter Evans – and pinching his lines – while he, the NE announcer, was on air.

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Date: 15/06/2012 13:24:02
From: jj
ID: 164675
Subject: re: Spoonerisms

“(Note to self: Do a proper search and find all your old blooper tapes. You last saw them two house moves ago :( )

yeah .. am still finding (and missing) stuff from when I left work so long ago.

Introduced kids to The Piper last week … all loved it.
Thanks

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Date: 15/06/2012 13:27:09
From: AussieDJ
ID: 164677
Subject: re: Spoonerisms

jj said:

Introduced kids to The Piper last week … all loved it.
Thanks

*Absolute pleasure. You’re welcome.

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Date: 15/06/2012 16:11:32
From: buffy
ID: 164730
Subject: re: Spoonerisms

>>Many years ago, I worked as a breakfast announcer at 3SH in Swan Hill. I discovered I could tune in and hear Peter Evans on 3LO, and Clive Robertson on the ABC equivalent in Sydney, 2BL.

I got progressively later and later each morning as I was listening to those two as they started their programs … they started at 0500 … mine was due to start at 0530, but with 10-15 minutes of ‘test program’ beforehand. At times, there was no ‘test program’ to be heard on 3SH when either Mr Evans or Mr Robertson were being particularly funny.

Aside: A bit later on, I moved on to be the morning announcer at 3NE at Wangaratta. I discovered that the brekky announcer there had patched an off-air reciever into his console, and was listeneing to Peter Evans – and pinching his lines – while he, the NE announcer, was on air.<<

It does seem a long time ago now, doesn’t it.

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Date: 15/06/2012 18:41:23
From: AussieDJ
ID: 164820
Subject: re: Spoonerisms

buffy said:

It does seem a long time ago now, doesn’t it.

Yes. Those were the days when radio was fun – both for the listeners, and those working in the industry.

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Date: 16/06/2012 16:18:26
From: AussieDJ
ID: 165254
Subject: re: Spoonerisms

buffy said:

And in the pheasant plucker tradition…..a dozen damask dinner napkins….although that’s more of a tongue twister really.

It was a lovely sketch – performed by Cicely Courtneidge:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpUCS4LOXCU

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Date: 16/06/2012 16:34:24
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 165256
Subject: re: Spoonerisms

I think a spoonerism is more like “Oh he went to Africa and got eaten by missionaries”

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