Tough tongue twister 5

[mscallisto]

The sixth sheiks sixth sheeps' sick

as probably is my spelling and punctuation!

More difficult twisters welcome

 

[SkipVought]

I heard it...

A skunk sat on a stump. The skunk thunk the stump stunk and the stump thunk the skunk stunk.


Skip,
[sub]
[red]Be advised:[/red] Researchers have found another Descartes trueism, "Cogito ergo spud."
"I think; therefore, I YAM! [/sub]

 

[SanYsidro]

Skip

I like your version better! Never heard it put that way. Here's another one that's not only tricky to say, but brings a smile to my face every time I hear it:

How much pot, could a pot roast roast, if a pot roast could roast pot.

 

[SkipVought]

I posted this elsewhere, and it's kinda long, but it fits the tongue-twister and best told in a constant, increasingly driving manner, seemingly without a breath.

Hester, the hissing snake:

Hester was a little snake. Hester loved to hiss everywhere he went. Hester was hissing and hissing in his own pit when his mother came out and said, "Hester, stop hissing in our pit. Go over to Mrs. Pot's pit and hiss."

So Hester went over to Mrs. Pot's pit and began hissing and hissing. Mrs. Pot came out and asked, "Hester! Why are you hissing in my pit?" So Hester said, "Well, Mrs. Pot, I was hissing and hissing in my pit, so my mother came out and said, 'Hester, stop hissing in our pit. Go over to Mrs. Pot's pit and hiss.' So I stopped hissing in our pit and came over to your pit to hiss." So Mrs. Pot said, "Stop hissing in my pit and go home to your own pit to hiss!"

So Hester went back to his own pit and began hissin and hissing. Hester's mother came out and said, "Hester! Why are you hissing in our pit. I told you to go over to Mrs. Pot's pit and hiss!" So Hester said, "I was in Mrs. Pots'spit, hissing and hissing, and Mrs. Pot came out and said, 'Hester! Why are you hissing in my pit?' So I said, 'Well, Mrs. Pot, I was hissing and hissing in my pit, so my mother came out and said, "Hester, stop hissing in our pit. Go over to Mrs. Pot's pit and hiss." So I stopped hissing in our pit and came over to your pit to hiss.' So Mrs. Pot said, 'Stop hissing in my pit and go home to your own pit to hiss!' So I came back to our pit and began hissing and hissing."

[red]"Well!" his mother exclaimed, "I can remenber when Mrs. Pot didn't have a pit to hiss in!" [/red]

Skip,
[sub]
[red]Be advised:[/red] Researchers have found another Descartes trueism, "Cogito ergo spud."
"I think; therefore, I YAM! [/sub]

 

[GlenJohnson]

Anybody check out Pearls in the Sunday funny's this November 7th? Worth reading.

Glen A. Johnson
If you're from Northern Illinois/Southern Wisconsin feel free to join the Tek-Tips in Chicago, Illinois Forum.
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Johnson Computers

 

[SantaMufasa]

Since Tek-Tips is a truly international site, I figured we should probably not stay provincially English and some of my favourite tongue twisters are from other languages. (If you would like to post some from other languages, please post their English translations, as well.):

Poquito a poquito Paquito empaca poquitas copitas en pocos paquetes.

Bit by bit, Paquito packs a few little cups in a few packages.
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Un tubo tiró un tubo y otro tubo lo detuvo. Hay tubos que tienen tubos pero este tubo no tuvo tubo.

A pipe shot a pipe and another pipe stopped it. There are pipes that have pipes but this pipe did not have a pipe.
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¿Si la sierva que te sirve, no te sirve como sierva, de que sirve que te sirvas de una sierva que no sirve?

If the servant that serves you, does not serve you as the servant, what service does it serve you, a servant that doesn’t serve?
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Un chasseur sachant chasser sait chasser sans son chien de chasse.

A hunter knowing to hunt knows to hunt without his hunting dog.
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Je suis ce que je suis et si je suis ce que je suis, qu'est-ce que je suis?

I am I, and if I am this that I am, what is this that I am?
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Pauvre petit pêcheur, prend patience pour pouvoir prendre plusieurs petits poissons.

Small poor fisherman, it takes patience to be able to take several small fishes.
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Santé n'est pas sans "t", mais maladie est sans "t".

Cute play on words:
When written: Health (“Santé”) is not without (the letter) “t”, but disease (“maladie”) is without (the letter) “t”.

When heard: Health is not without health, but disease is without health.
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Fischers Fritze fischt frische Fische;
Frische Fische fischt Fischers Fritze.

Fisherman Fritze fishes fresh fish; fresh fish fishes fisherman Fritze.
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Der Zweck hat den Zweck den Zweck zu bezwecken; wenn der Zweck seinen Zweck nicht bezweckt, hat der Zweck keinen Zweck!

The purpose has the purpose, the purpose to plan; if the purpose does not plan its purpose, the purpose has no purpose!
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Bierbrauer Bauer braut braunes Bier, braunes Bier braut Bierbrauer Bauer

Brown beer, beer brewer, farmer bride; brown beer bride, beer brewer farmer
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Quanti rami di rovere roderebbe un roditore se un roditore potesse rodere rami di rovere?

(Italian variation of “How much wood would a woodchuck chuck…”):
How many branches of oak would a rodent gnaw if a rodent could gnaw branches of oak?
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In un piatto poco cupo, poco pepe cape.

In a dark little dish, little pepper heads.
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Dietro a quel palazzo c'è un povero cane pazzo.
Date un pezzo di pane a quel povero pazzo cane.

Behind that palace there is a poor crazy dog. Give a piece of bread to that poor crazy dog.
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Un pezzo di pizza
che puzza nel pozzo
del pazzo di pezza.

A piece of pizza
that stinks in the well
of the crazy guy in rags.
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Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)

http://www.dasages.com

@ 23:29 (29Nov04) UTC (aka "GMT" and "Zulu"),
@ 16:29 (29Nov04) Mountain Time

 

[mscallisto]

There is a Swedish one for (i believe) "seven drunken seamen" that's a killer!

 

[CajunCenturion]

An interesting twist on the tongue twister. Colored Words
Read the directions carefully.

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