August 30th, 2012 / 11:11 am
Snippets
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A D Jameson—
I’ve been trying to make triple spoonerisms, merely to pass the time (like when riding the lift). My only noteworthy success thus far has been “rape soccer pissers.”
You?
spent a lot of time looking at it but just can’t figure out the origin phrase for your spoonerism
rape soccer pissers = rock paper scissors
I guess “raper sock pissers” is more correct, but I also swapped the “er” from “paper/raper” over to “sock/soccer.” (Which maybe makes it a quadruple spoonerism? Though at some point it really just becomes rearranging vowels willy-nilly.)
sock raper pizzers
or, rotating otherwise: pock saper rizzers
?
–the Spoonerism keeping the aft of the words intact and in order while swapping/rotating the fore sounds.
I think you’ve coined a portmoonerism, though a spoortmanteau seems taxonomically possible.
The only way the opening consonants can move is either over to the left or over to the right. Hence:
A-B-C > C-A-B or B-C-A
So, yeah, I guess mine’s a postmoonerism! Thanks for the term…
I’ve been trying to make one with a variety of cream pie (the food, not the porn term). But none of the known dishes ultimately work:
banana cream pie > panana beam cry or canana pream bye
Boston cream pie > poston beam cry or coston pream bye
chocolate cream pie > pocolate cheam cry or crocolate pream chie
coconut cream pie > poconut keam cry or croconut pream kie
i often accidentally say things like ‘rake popper scissors’ in real life
or ‘pock raper scissors’
Yes; my first is C-A-B, and the second, B-C-A. (I spelled ‘-issors’ with ‘z’s because, without the ‘sc-‘, a reader might hear pisser, ‘urinator; urinal’ – which is comical, why not?, but a Spoonerism?.)
Maybe Spoonerism covers more mixture than just switching the opening sounds, though. ?
It has been left to you and me, deadgod, to write The Catalog on the Tendencies and Behaviors of Nth-degree Spoonerisms.
for the sake of comedy I would allow you to adjust panana to panini
Lateral Spoonerism? Cubist Spoonerism?
Alfred E. Spoonerism!
I believe “Raper Sock Pissers” works if you start with the phrase Paper Rock Scissors… so A-B-C becomes B-C-A…
How about “Panama beam cry”? Though that’s not a particularly interesting collocation.
OK, I’ve got a real one: hook, line, and sinker > look, sine, and, linker.
It’s not all that marvelous, but it really is a real one!
Sure. That or “Sock Raper Pissers” is a better example of a pure triple spoonerism than my “Rape Soccer Pissers.”
it seems believable to me that if you were engaging in a spoonerism you might adjust the new, spoonerized (?) non-word into a real word or name, like panana into panama. believable if not real
a d, have you thought of looking at magic block code names for inspiration? both rock paper scissors and hook line sinker have been used as three-set code names in the past
Yeah, that’s where hook line and sinker came from! I was trying to think of well-known three-word phrases to play around with, and landed on Magic block code names :)
Wait: that’d be ‘look, sine, and hinker’. (Or, rotating the other direction, ‘sook, hine, and linker’.)
You do see garbled not-Spoonerisms that play with such well-known phrases: Crook, Whine, and Blinker Esqq.–Shysters since 1871
God damn it, I am just no good at these! Well, squack to wear bun…
no kidding …
but – oddly refreshing and charmingly funny
I need to write a program that does it for me!
I think the real life Spooner, he made Spoonerisms in real life, and unintentionally?
I myself sometimes do that, too. (Wouble dones.)
just popped into my head !
my dad used to say: the “whole fam damn-ily”
incomplete-triple double-spoonerism