Auntie Em! It's a Twister!

Joe J Thomas · Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007, 20:03 (GMT) Post subject: Auntie Em! It's a Twister!

Hey all,

Just thought I'd start a thread where we can post some of our warm up tongue twisters...

I'll start us off with a few of my faves:

That I missed her depressed her young sister named Esther
This mister to pester she tried.
Now a pestering sister's a festering blister
You're best to resister her say I
The mister resisted, the sister persisted
I kissed her, all loyalty slipped
When she said I could have her
Her sister's cadaver
Must surely have turned in it's crypt.
(from "Clementine" by Tom Lehrer)

If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker
It is quick to stick a lock upon your stock
Or some joker who is quicker's going to trick you of your liquor
If you fail to lock your liquor with a lock

... and so it goes - gimme more!,
Joe J Thomas
www.JoeActor.com

Kevin Miller · Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007, 21:26 (GMT) Post subject:

There once was a man from Nantucket.....

Oh, never mind.

(just couldn't resist) Twisted Evil

Bobbie West · Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007, 04:02 (GMT) Post subject: twisters!

"The sun shines on stop signs" (my fave, repeat as fast as you can manage without blowing a hole in it)

and the ever-favorite, "Betty Botter bought some butter but she said this butter's bitter, if I put it in my batter it will make my batter bitter! So betty botter bought some better butter, put it in her bitter batter and made her bitter batter better!" oh yeah

Then you got yer How much wood... ...a classic!

Bobbie West · Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007, 04:05 (GMT) Post subject:

BTW "When she said I could have her sister's cadaver"
there ain't nothing wrong with that clementine dude,
Tom Lehere....... irre

Scott Pollak · Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007, 04:15 (GMT) Post subject:

My personal favorite:

I sit upon a slitted sheet,
Upon a slitted sheet I sit.

Now say THAT fast a few times!

J.S. Gilbert · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007, 19:34 (GMT) Post subject: I got a good one

There once was a man from Nantucket

Oh wait that's not really a tongue twister is it?

Never mind

Joe J Thomas · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007, 19:40 (GMT) Post subject:

Don't make me pull this thread over!

Maybe we need a Limerick thread?

Colin Campbell · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007, 21:05 (GMT) Post subject:

"At Sofa King, our Sofas are Sofa King great and our prices are Sofa King low."

Dan Powell · Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007, 07:41 (GMT) Post subject:

Here are a couple I've used as mouth and vocal warmups with the theatre

rubber baby buggy bumpers

copper bottomed coffee pot

flourescent phosphorescence flourescing fierily

tittle tattle talked tentatively on the telphone

quick quiet questions cluelessly clarified

All these done, approximately 5-6 times in ascending and descending scales, whilst over accentuating the mouth in order to warm up virtually every type of oral movement...apparently Smile

There are loads more of warm ups for the lips and larynx I could go on for hours...and sometimes do hehe

Bobbie West · Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007, 20:04 (GMT) Post subject: thanks for that twister list

Thanks Dan, those are good. I put those up in my cubby booth but I spell checked it for the next user.

rubber baby buggy bumpers

copper bottomed coffee pot

fluorescent phosphorescence fluorescing fierily

tittle tattle talked tentatively on the telephone

quick quiet questions cluelessly clarified

heiss

(apparently, "tittle" and "cluelessly" are not words in the dictionary(?).
But by golly, they should be.

Dan Powell · Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007, 20:38 (GMT) Post subject:

Yeah sorry about the spelling as I was doing a quick blurb during lunch, glad they're of use though Smile

As for Tittle see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tittle though Cluelessly isn't a word...you're right, it should be hehe.

Just remembered another couple :

slick locks lock but slack locks lack lock

and one final one for good measure...

I'm not a pheasant plucker I'm a pheasant plucker's son,
but I'm only plucking pheasants till the pheasant plucker comes

this can be re-done in a rude version to I'm not a peasant phu...you get the idea Wink

Cira Larkin - Studio 53 · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007, 16:38 (GMT) Post subject: Try this....

"Toy boat", 10 times real fast. mod rufen

John M. Thomas · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007, 18:22 (GMT) Post subject:

A toaster from taste tester toaster makes truly taste tempting toast.

Steve Royal

Hi Folks!
This one has been one of my favourites.....

Esau Wood sawed wood.
Esau Wood would saw wood.
All the wood Esau Wood saw,
Esau Wood would saw.
In other words, all the wood Esau saw to saw,
Esau sought to saw.
Oh, the wood Wood would saw,
And, oh, the woodsaw with which Wood would saw wood.
But one day, Wood’s woodsaw would saw no wood,
And thus the wood Wood sawed was not the wood
Wood would saw
If Wood’s woodsaw would saw wood.
Now, Wood would saw wood with a woodsaw that would saw wood,
So Esau sought a saw that would saw wood.
One day, Esau saw a saw saw wood as no other woodsaw Wood saw would saw wood.
In fact, of all the woodsaws Wood ever saw saw wood,
Wood never saw a woodsaw that would saw wood as the woodsaw Wood saw saw wood would saw wood.
And I never saw a woodsaw that would saw wood
As the woodsaw Wood saw would saw wood,
Until I saw Esau Wood saw wood with the woodsaw Wood saw saw wood.
Now, Wood saws wood with the woodsaw Wood saw saw wood.

...and if you can get through that in 60 seconds without your brain exploding, I congratulate you!
Laughing

Scott Pollak · Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007, 14:46 (GMT) Post subject:

And here are two excellent, quick ones:

"Red leather, yellow leather" a handful of times, and

"The Big Black Bug bled Black Blood".