June 16, 2006

Parze pleedon me In the 1930s and 1940s, F. Chase Taylor – under his pseudonym of Colonel Stoopnagle – produced dozens of spoonerism fairytales which appeared. The originals were printed in the Saturday Evening Post and eventually published in a collection. The book is now out of print,but some of the stories are on Fun with Words, including: Prinderella and the Cince,The Pea Little Thrigs and Beeping Sleauty
posted by Smedleyman 17 years ago
  • That's not the version of Cinderella that I remember from my childhood. The morning kids' radio show always played a reading of "Rindercella" in which she slopped her dripper. According to google it was read and written by Archie Campbell (the link has a link to an mp3, too).
  • Sorry, Smedley..but the reference in "Beeping Sleauty" to "Spritney Brears and Rulia Joberts" tells me this may not be from the 1930's... hmmmm.. but, fun nevertheless.... thanks.
  • Didn't Henny Bill do summat like this?
  • That was too muckin' fuch.
  • Find I can only stand reading about two paragraphs of it at one go.
  • Spoonerisms are alive and well today as a staple of the Capitol Steps.
  • That was a late graugh. Yank Thou merry vuch.
  • all i can say is.. ftw
  • Wore the fin?