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Kind Cup O' Joe!

Cheesy!

     This one's making the rounds...

Spoonerisms

   
     My husband introduced me to Spoonerisms years ago, and we sometimes enjoy using them in everyday conversation. For instance, rather than "take a shower", we'll "shake a tower". It's fun to play with words in this manner because it's pretty easy and it's often met with people having to take a few seconds to think about what you just said when you use them.

     Shel Silverstein once wrote a poem using a whole bunch of Spoonerisms:

     If you'd like more of the same, you can check out his book, Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook.

  
     Here are some more common Spoonerism sayings to use in everyday conversation:

     "I must mend the sail." (send the mail)

     "Would you like some belly jeans?" (jelly beans)

     "I need a broaf of lead." (loaf of bread)

     "I need to clip my noe tails" (toe nails)

     "I hear bedding wells!" (wedding bells)

     "Nye for bow!" (Bye for now!)


     I hope you enjoy thinking up more Spoonerisms, and feel free to use them in your future conversations just for the fun of it!

Check Your Spelling!

Sometimes you have to check your spell check, as this poem making the rounds online warns us...

Rebus Puzzles 1

     Some of you may be familiar with these. Rebus Puzzles use words, letters, and symbols to create a new perspective on a common word or saying. For example: the picture I used in the very first posting (entitled "Play on Words") of this blog could be considered a Rebus Puzzle. The word "play" was stacked upon the word "words", thus creating the saying "Play on words" through the image itself.

     I'll provide some more samples here and see if you can figure out what these Rebus Puzzles are trying to convey. You may scroll down when ready to view the solutions...

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SOLUTIONS: 

1. Crossroads 
2. Big Bad Wolf
3. Solar Eclipse
4. Sideshow
5. Tricycle


     I hope you enjoyed solving these Rebus Puzzles! I'll post more of these periodically, and we'll continue having creative fun with our words. :-)

My Favorite Palindrome

The words that read the same way:

front to back.

Like mom.

Like dad.

Like kayak.

Some others you may know:

Like radar

And madam.

Perhaps you’ve heard of “A man, a plan, a canal: Panama”.

Or maybe you’ve met “God’s dog”.

I recall another.

My dad’s name was Bob.

He loved to point out that,

“It’s spelled B-O-B.

Spell it backwards; it’s B-O-B.”

We always laughed.

Next to him,

I have another favorite palindrome.

It has feathers.

It’s gray

And yellow.

With orange

And white.

He was found one day

Another state away.

Since then,

He’s rarely out of my sight.

Originally, 

He was named BB.

That’s the same front to back,

Obviously.

But recently,

It dawned on me,

His nickname follows a similar track.

Because we also call him

Beeb.