The Friday Fling Tries Tongue-Tugging Tongue Twisters!
Friday Fling #184 June 8th 2012
We haven’t done tongue-twisters in a long time. Until now!
Tongue-twisters are usually alliterative lines, that is where most or all the words begin with the same letter, or where saying the lines out loud will tend to be difficult, especially in repetition. Here’s one I just thought of while driving over last weekend. In this case it was inspired by the tune that goes with the popular video game Angry Birds, which my grandson used to play a lot!
It’s so dismal,
and abysmal.
it’s so dismal and abysmal
it’s abysmal and so dismal
it’s so dismal and abysmal
It’s so dismal.
And abysmal.
It’s so dismal,
past abysmal.
Cataclysmal.
Pepto Bismol.
It’s so dismal, past abysmal,
cataclysmal, pass the Bismol.
It’s abysmal and so dismal.
Cataclysmal.
Pass the Bismol.
Copyright June 4th 2012 RGD
The most famous tongue-twisters remain descriptive of a scene.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
She sells sea shells by the seashore.
Great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts
greasy grimy gopher guts
greasy grimy gopher guts
Ida inadvertently introduced iron into intestinal interiors.
OK I just made that last one up. Ida accidentally swallowed a nail.
Proving that good tongue-twisters do not have to be of any great length, especially since part of the point is that they be repeated in an attempt to master pronouncing them correctly without error.
This week the Friday Fling has fun writing tongue-tugging tongue twisters!
Be sure to read, try to pronounce, and comment fluently on your fellow Pals’ grammatical challenges. Then find a good twist in your weekend!
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for June 1st
Congratulations Bettie!
Welcome everyone to our tongue-twisting edition of the Friday Fling! Bring or make your best tongue-twisters and…well you don’t win a darned thing, except our amusement and gratitude and hopefully some self-satisfaction. So let the tongue-tugging party begin! 😀 :entertained: 😕
If the following makes sense to you, such was not intended LOL
Ok…one more try and then I will quit while I’m ahead…or is that behind!
MEAN GREEN
There is this giant
Green he waz
His name is called
Mister Mean
He had muscles of steal
Clean is his last name
He does a great job
When things didnt git clean
He would become very mean
And scrub till things would gleam
Mister Mean Green Clean
Does the job up right
Keeps every thing bright and tidy
Written By: Bettie Davis ——————————— © June o7 , 2o12
By Sonnet Diva…. Thanks for your fun tongue twister, Lori! :love:
OFF COLOR
Red Green was never seen
venting his spleen.
Behind the scene, Red Green cleaned and preened
until he became lean and mean;
until he was a clean lean mean Red Green machine.
Red Green tried to wean teen queen Jean Keene
off the coffee bean.
But teen queen Jean Keene was not keen to be weaned off the bean.
Teen queen Jean Keene was seen with a meanie named Dean Feeney.
Meanie Dean Feeney wore a beanie. Jean Keene thought Dean Feeney was a phony.
Beanie-wearing meanie Dean Feeney hung out with Rene Fellini.
Rene Fellini’s weenie was tiny.
Teen queen Jean Keene laughed at Rene Fellini’s tiny weenie.
Rene Fellini beaned Jean Keene with Dean Feeney’s beanie.
Teen queen Jean Keene’s Fellini beaning was seen by Dean Feeney.
Dean Feeney thought it was funny. Teen queen Jean Keene was sure Dean Feeney’s laugh wasn’t phony.
Behind the scene, lean mean Red Green machine preened
before venting his spleen:
“Tiny weenied Jean Keene beaner Rene Fellini is a meanie who should be maimed,” he mimed.
You see, although Red Green was a clean lean mean preening machine, he was mute as a boot. That is, he could toot, but was otherwise mute.
If your perception is keen, by now you’ve gleaned from what you’ve seen: mute as a boot clean lean mean preening machine Red Green loves the bean which makes him toot. No amount of teen queen Jean Keene beaning by tiny weenied Rene Fellini or even by beanie-wearing phony Dean Feeney could ever wean clean lean machine Red Green off the bean.
No. Red Green will have to go to a detox clinic to get off the bean. There he won’t be lean. He won’t be mean. He cannot preen, until he is bean clean. Once bean clean, Red Green can once more be a lean mean preening machine. He will be completely mute, to boot. Not even a toot.
Copyright June 5th 2012 RGD
Thank yall for the ” Fickle Finger of Fate Award ” I so appreciate this .. It just warms me heart …
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:love:
Finally here Crazy busy day with crazy write here to share 😯 :groovy:
My fanny looking like a granny`s
Granny`s fanny cooking
Walking ones snooking
or it is I shook them
I notice looking
I walk as I am hooking
Swinging side to side booking
No not me I`m tooken
They must think I am Ranny`s Anny
Ranny`s Granny Anny plays Rooking
Cards she booking
Playing cards granny hooking
Knowing she always won looking
Ok…one more shot at this fun blog! 😆
Lots of Tongue-Twisting fun here today. Awesome blog and challenge and pieces posted. And CONGRATULATIONS to Bettie! :love: :love:
Hello all sorry I have just couple minutes my granddaughter timing me. I have 5 days off I’m up Norhern MN. enjoying my grand kids and family. and promise kids I would not spend that much time on here. I love it there on CPC. after here I’m leaveing for the funeral thats on Saturday. I miss you all and be back Sunday. Take care all my wonderful friends and writers.
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