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Omotai (bustamanted@hotmail.com)
Fri, 10 Nov 2000 23:54:02 -0600
The greek for spoonerism is metastasis, it's traditionally ascribed to a
mind too nimble to allow the tongue to keep up!
----- Original Message -----
From: -Z- <z@gundam.com>
To: <gundam@aeug.org>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 10:43 PM
Subject: RE: [gundam] OT fun
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-gundam@1u.aeug.org [mailto:owner-gundam@1u.aeug.org]On
> > Behalf Of Lim Jyue
> > Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 03:36
> > To: gundam@aeug.org
> > Subject: RE: [gundam] OT fun
> >
> >
> > At 20:40 11/09/2000 -0800, -Z- wrote:
> > >I normally use three names, not just two, but my first and last name
yielded
> > >Fortuitous Rhinoceros.
> >
> > Hmm.. you are sort of hard to bulge on certain points... =)
>
> Only when I charge. Fortuitously, of course.
>
> > >"Jim Lyue" resulted in Humongous Sea-Lion.
> >
> > I nearly died laughing seeing this. =)
> >
> > But my actual Last Name is Lim, not Jim.. So the sequence should
be
> > Jyue Lim, giving: Crossbow Sea-Lion. Cuute. =)
>
> Sorry 'bout that. I seem to have made a Spoonerism there, transposing the
first
> letters of your two names -- Jim Lyue instead of Lim Jyue.
>
> The Reverend William A. Spooner was an English clergyman and educator
notorious
> for mixing words up in this fashion, saying things like "the tons of soil"
when
> he meant to say "the sons of toil" -- although the transposition has to
make
> actual, sensible words to be properly called a Spoonerism. My favorite is
from
> a newspaperman who quoted a "high White Horse souse" when he meant a "high
White
> House source".... (White Horse was an actual brand of whiskey at the
time.)
>
> -Z-
>
> (AKA "Lucky")
>
>
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