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canary-dave

canary-dave

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Here's a question for all you highly educated Canaries:-

What is it called when you have a word reversal in a couple of lines? I'm pretty sure it's not a Spoonerism as that is a reversal of starting letters of words!

An example:-

I saw a man running towards the railway station and asked,

"Are you racing for a train?"

He replied:-

"No, I'm training for a race!"
 
I'd still say that was a Spoonerism Dave.

It is still pretty much reversal of starting letters, albeit in a phrase.

Such as 'lack of pies' - 'pack of lies' ?
 
ncgandy said:
I'd still say that was a Spoonerism Dave.

It is still pretty much reversal of starting letters, albeit in a phrase.

Such as 'lack of pies' - 'pack of lies' ?
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I thought a Spoonerism was supposed to make something "ordinary" into something outrageous!

A toast to "The queer old dean" for example!
 
... or 'a sale of two titties' <laugh>

Not sure it has to necessarily be outrageous though.
 
ncgandy said:
... or 'a sale of two titties' <laugh>

Not sure it has to necessarily be outrageous though.
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Thanks for your thoughts anyway! My dear departed dad was a bugger for Spoonerisms, on a trip out one day we were overtaken by a car doing about 90 mph, dad says, "He's in a hucking furry," followed by mum cutting him acrossed the skull!
 
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canary-dave said:
That's almost word for word the same as Micky Gunn's, so who stole from who?

Micky did his on Channel 4, though I saw him live!
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Try this Dave - This was originally shown on BBC TV back in the seventies. Ronnie Barker could say all this without a snigger (though god knows how many takes). Irony is that they received not one complaint. The speed of delivery must have been too much for the whining herds.
http://www.techrepublic.com/forums/...cella-and-her-sugly-isters-ronnie-barker-rip/

Though some suggest it might have been written by an American called Archie Campbell, but I think Ronnie performed it first in UK.
 
Braveheart said:
Try this Dave - This was originally shown on BBC TV back in the seventies. Ronnie Barker could say all this without a snigger (though god knows how many takes). Irony is that they received not one complaint. The speed of delivery must have been too much for the whining herds.
http://www.techrepublic.com/forums/...cella-and-her-sugly-isters-ronnie-barker-rip/

Though some suggest it might have been written by an American called Archie Campbell, but I think Ronnie performed it first in UK.
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I would lay money on Ronnie being first, I saw Micky Gunn in the early eighties, he was very good, not just with that but his whole show, he was heckled by a couple of idiots and he immediately said, "F**k me, two hecklers at once, why don't you put your heads' together and make a shed?"
 
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