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Any favourites?

I like Spoonerisms better.
Dalking the wog, or cashing the war, biding the rike or even lowing the mawn.

We spent a few holidays in Benidorm, and I bought a keyring with "Benidorm" in beads. I pulled it apart and tried to anagram it, and found that if I turned the M upside down into a W, I could rearrange it. From then on, Benidorm became Wendirob.

Is there a real need for Neil Reid?
Does Connor Wickham wanna kick 'em?
Are Miles Percival's piles merciful?
Is Maggie Sutton saggy mutton?
Were Spooner's parents dumb & mad?

One from the leader of an OU geological fieldtrip: "Oh look at the erotic black in the field"

Hard to beat the old ones eg "There's nothing quite like whizzing down hill on a well-boiled icicle...".

Nearly all of the spoonerisms attributed to Spooner are apocryphal. However, one of the stories that makes me chuckle is when Spooner was supposedly crossing a footbridge at Oxford and saw a young couple relaxing in a boat, the gentleman stealing a kiss from the blushing young lady.

"My Dear Sir", remarked Spooner, "Punts are not for kissing in !" ..... or at least that's what he meant to say !

I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son.
I will pluck the pheasants until the pheasant plucking's done.

I frequently (sort of ) Spoonerize when I have two word/ syllables to play with. I have hellowyammers, fold ginches, poodweckers etc. I'm also in the habit of saying hello to whatever bird I see/hear when out on a ride/walk.
I have to be very careful on my regular commute- one of the birds I often hear is the corn bunting

CliveyT wrote: ↑29 Jun 2022, 9:36am I'm also in the habit of saying hello to whatever bird I see/hear when out on a ride/walk.

You could bello at hirds as well

I'll be taking our corder bollley for a walk later ............ if the stain rops .............. and we might call in at the Sising Run.
It's ducking it chown out there at the moment.

A friend’s Dad used to use Spoonerisms regularly. It was most unfortunate one day when he was talking about his Scout Leader Frank Witz!

Well, some say the lovely Shirley Bassey has a Burley Chassis.

Mrs Mick F just reminded me that some years back, she went into the butcher's and asked for half a pound of unstroked smeaky bacon.

And then there's leaving no toad unspurned or no turd unstoned.

And the other day I meant to say Black Forest but it came out as a rearward purveyor of flowers.