More #Spoonerisms than you can stake a shit* at : A Festival of Groans

More #Spoonerisms than you can stake a shit at : A Festival of Groans

More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2019 (17 to 24 October)
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9 November

That would've been a glitch in the ice-box... pic.twitter.com/NNPU8ChY9Y

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More #Spoonerisms than you can stake a shit at : A Festival of Groans

C : If we go to the aviary, perhaps there'll be a bumming heard... ?

A : Er, yes - maybe... Tell you what, in that case you go on your own, and you can tell me all about it !#Tiergarten#sSpoonerisms

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'Well, it has to be said, Jeeves, that your packed lunch perhaps lacked punch.'

'My apologies, sir. However, on reflection, you might recall that it rather better fitted Lady Caroline's tastes ?'#Spoonerisms

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Yet a glass of jute-froose sounds so much more exotic !#Spoonerisms

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Or, one never knows, it might be the Goth of Rod ? :)#Spoonerisms

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C : (Over-excitedly.) Oh, look - mink puffins !

A : ? !

C : (Ditto.) They must be flavoured with raspberry - d'you want one ?

A : (Sotto voce.) Er...#Spoonerisms

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Tim says that we're just bitter still because of BX if we call one of his pubs a lad boozer#Spoonerisms

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 12, 2022

'I wonder if she always walks past at this time of day, because she goes to tank the bakings... ?'#Spoonerisms

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The Way We Were :

When in Scarborough, buy sand#Spoonerisms

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I just saw a pair of doves, killing and booing.#Spoonerisms

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'I don't usually like jokes about fish, but I do appreciate your whiting bit'#Spoonerisms

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'It's all right - I'm only knowing my blows !'#Spoonerisms

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C : Why, from time to time, does your car seem to execute dance-moves - but, frankly, in a very inferior way ?

A : Oh, it's been like that since I booked it in at the shoddy bop.#Spoonerisms

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'To package that properly, what you really need is a piece of this rubble-bap !'#Spoonerisms

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C : I must say that I'm dead envious of Tom and Chris, now that they've got dirt-bikes !

A : And, er, who's Burt, then ? Is he their new prisoner... ?

C : Um, sorry - what are you talking about ?#Spoonerisms

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C : What do you like so much about old films ?

A : Oh, I always like to see Custer beaten.#Spoonerisms

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I know that you were running a temperature, but - perhaps less than usefully (?) - I have been occupying my time since waking with this, peaky Crun :#Spoonerisms#HenryCrun https://t.co/GboOCaPmsP

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A : *What* glade - it's almost unremittingly urban, if not machines, mechanization ! ?

C : Deleted scenes, re-written in his honour, where Neo's shown more stuff. Don't characters - several times - refer to Mitch in the glade tricks ?

A : I hate you.

2 / 2#Spoonerisms

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'Best thing to read of Conrad's ? Well...

'OK. Start with Dart of Harkness - as it's mercifully short, and Everyone Thinks that one should've read it - and then move on to someone else's work !

'Maybe G., by John Berger, or Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday ?'#Spoonerisms pic.twitter.com/eHMqeKpaRG

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'And this is where I sleep...'

'A four-poster ? But you're into metal, so this is really unexpected !'

'Well, you know - I've always enjoyed a little bed-hanging !'#Spoonerisms

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 18, 2023

'Do you want to call me on my gnome, Humber ?'#Spoonerisms

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'Oh, you found out about that, too ?

'Yes, it's true that I turn my hand to many things to make a buck, and I do race tired, old horses, at a place that I call Track of All Jades.'#Spoonerisms

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 17, 2022

Those who don't believe in Nessie should knock less those who do !#Spoonerisms pic.twitter.com/SRLE5C4OIA

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William Shakespeare weighed a mill, in which he famously gave Anne Hathaway his second-best bed#Spoonerisms

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C : On Wednesday, I have A Beating with The Mercer.

A : ? ! ?#Spoonerisms

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'Are those very undercooked eggs for you, Jacob ?'

'No, they're for the da - they have to be runny for old mope !'#Spoonerisms

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C : (Friendly.) Hiya !

A : (In a - polite - hurry.) Sorry - I'd love to stop, but I dust mash : see you another time ! :)

C : (Wordlessly, but with a confused smile.) Er... ?#Spoonerisms

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'Yes, of course I do like the combination of the chocolate and the ice-cream, but I don't need a nag, mum - if I wanted one, I'd have it'#Spoonerisms

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'After this evening's victory, we can be sure that the team's spirits will be hiding rye !'#GrainWars#Spoonerisms

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A : Hey, your hands look dry - are they OK ?

C : 'S'allright, just wash-day hands. I've just been sinsing my rocks.

A : Er, doing *what* to your rocks... ?#Spoonerisms

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Would Roger Stein and The Hamsters really have written as many hit tunes / songs ?#Spoonerisms

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Or, on the altar of preserving a lazy cheese-eating liar, a shudderless rip* :

Through others' health, livelihoods, well-being, rights, finances, job or other security, reputations...

Though not enough shudder from those being ripped, even at 1K deaths per day ? !#Spoonerisms

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 16, 2022

C : Are you throating a suck-sweet ?

A : No... Not, er, intentionally... ?#Spoonerisms

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) April 29, 2021

'Mum ! Do we have any of those cravery snackers left ?'#Spoonerisms

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) February 14, 2021

'And do you know what manner of apparition he beheld, whining shite ?'#Spoonerisms

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) February 4, 2021

'Yes, this is just one of my bed-taker shirts !'#Spoonerisms

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 14, 2020

End-notes :

* Which, obviously, does not quite work as a Spoonerism...



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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)

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