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Andy Berdan
Today's tricky tongue twister.
Podcast by @andyberdan (twitter)
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Blake’s black bike‘s back brake bracket block broke.
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7 Sleazy Shysters in sharkskin suits sold sheared seal skins to seasick sailors.
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"Out in the pasture the nature watcher watches the catcher. While the catcher watches the pitcher who pitches the balls. Whether the temperature's up or whether the temperature's down, the nature watcher, the catcher and the pitcher are always around. The pitcher pitches, the catcher catches and the watcher watches. So whether the temperature rises or whether the temperature falls the nature watcher just watches the catcher who's watching the pitcher who's watching the balls."
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May the Third - “Something in a 30 acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumped and thundered threatening the 3D thoughts of Matthew the thug - although, theatrically, it was only the 13,000 thistles and thorns through the underneath of his thigh that the 30 year old thug thought of that morning.”
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Mary Mac's mother's making Mary Mac marry me.
My mother's making me marry Mary Mac.
Will I always be so merry when Mary's taking care of me?
Will I always be so merry when I marry Mary Mac?
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Friday is Admiral Ackbar "It's a Trap" Day!
I am not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son but I'll be plucking pheasants When the pheasant plucker's done.
A fly and flea flew into a flue, said the fly to the flea 'what shall we do?' 'let us fly' said the flea 'let us flee!’ said the fly so they flew through a flaw in the flue.
"I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish."
From my favourite scene in the 1952 film "Singing in the Rain",
"Moses supposes his toeses are roses, But Moses supposes erroneously. Moses, he knowses his toeses aren't roses As Moses supposes his toeses to be."
Short and sweet today.
"One-one was a race horse. Tutu was one too. One-one won one race. Tutu won one too."
A tongue twister limerick this time.
"There was a fisherman named Fisher , who fished for some fish in a fissure. 'Til a fish with a grin, pulled the fisherman in, Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher."
"Denise sees the fleece. Denise sees the fleas. At least Denise could sneeze, and feed and freeze the fleas."
Finally, I stumbled! That'll probably happen again.
A classic.
"How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck how much wood a woodchuck would chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood."
Once again, a no-mistake tongue twister. This probably won't last.
Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said, “This butter’s bitter! But a bit of better butter will but make my butter better!” So she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter, and it made her butter better, so ‘twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.