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Snoopy · Joined: 13 Jul 2003 Posts: 185

Why is English so prone to these? We have probably heard that unfortunate Australian trying desperately to report on the fire at the Firestone tyre factory. Weather forecasters are susceptible. The lady who said "fost and frog" on the BBC amended it in her next bulletin to "ice and fog". Another weather lady, on her last day on the breakfast programme, said she could already hear the champagne cocks porping. One suspects that a few cocks had already porped. On the Radio 4 Today programme, the interviewer tried to ask a politician if he could "shed some light" on the issue. Brilliant timing: I had had a mouthful of toothpaste at that moment and needed to clean the mirror. But my favourite was perpetrated by a friend of mine who was a continuity announcer on BBC Radio 2. A vicious news editor thrust an item full of African names at him ten seconds before he went on air. Having read that and the rest of the news with professional aplomb, he relaxed slightly. "And now to the sport. The following matches have been postponed because of porterlogged witches."

Snoopy · Joined: 13 Jul 2003 Posts: 185

Why did that rooster word get beeped, Mr Sperling?

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

You should have written cockerel

nomadder · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 5:34 pm Post subject:

Whatever happened to beeping freedom of speech? Dog beep it.

nomadder · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 5:37 pm Post subject:

Maybe you can write in mirrorspeak.

.siht ekiL Smile

Wolf · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 1245 Location: Middle Earth

Put a space between each letter. c o r k. cork.

yaramaz · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 7:29 pm Post subject:

Is c o r k a bad word, mummy? Surprised

corkcorkcorkcork!

I am a white, corkasian female hailing from County Cork with a corkscrew in me pocket ready to uncork me champagne bottle... blimey! Is that a Portuguese cork tree I see before me? Twisted Evil

johnslat · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 10:02 pm Post subject: Cork you

Dear yaramaz,
I hope you will not be offended if, in the spirit of this thread, I humbly request that you put a cork in it.
Regards,
John
P.S. I am not now and never have been a card-carrying corksucker.

yaramaz · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 3:31 pm Post subject:

I love you, John! Very Happy

PS Cork!

fat_chris · Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 3198 Location: Beijing

Spoonerism? Isn't that when you're on your side? Embarassed

R · Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 277 Location: United Kingdom

My favourite is one much shown on blooper shows, where a newsreader started talking about hypodeemic nerdles.

yaramaz · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 6:46 pm Post subject:

Aw, how romantic and cuddly this thread is turning out to be... Wink

johnslat · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 9:57 pm Post subject: You must remember this

Dear yaramaz,
Alas - my 60 year old heart ( lodged in the body of Brad Pitt - if he worked out more - and directed by the mind of a 16 year old ) belongs to another.

" Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of, yaramaz, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of two little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now... Here's looking at you kid. "

Regards,
John