On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 at 20:59:59, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
(ref: <00cf01c1a908$0167d8e0$5b075cc3@default>)
>
>>Even more OT but I heard it on R4 this afternoon live, so at least
>100%
>>genuine and topical:
>>
>>Instead of 'gas fired power-stations', an interviewee said
>>'Gas powered fire stations'. I almost drove into the braking car in
>>front laughing.
>
>He he, good job you drive a Volvo then (unless the car in front was
>also a Volvo!)
>
>Is this what's called a Spoonerism (unintentional humour by
>juxtaposition or something like that...it's got too many syllables for
>me to understand).
... after the well know Victorian - Reverend William Archibald Spooner
Some of his Spoonerisms:
He once addressed a group of farmers as "ye noble tons of soil,"
queried after a university official by asking "Is the bean dizzy?"
and admonished a student because he had "tasted two worms" and "hissed
all my mystery lectures."
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