She Slit a Sheet
When I was a little kid, my Dad used to have fun with my siblings and me by challenging us to say tongue twisters. We did okay with Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers, She Sells Sea Shells by the Seashore, and Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers.
Then one day my Dad introduced us to the lesser-known She Slit a Sheet, A Sheet She Slit, Upon the Slitted Sheet She Sits. Try it. I dare you.
I believe that was the first time in my life I uttered a swear word. I still remember the shock. And the fear! I was going to get in trouble for swearing! Oh, did my Dad get a laugh out of that.
And I was so mortified by it I think I didn't swear again until I was 20. And not in front of my parents till oh, I don't know, sometime last year.
Comments
Nice one. Try saying Fat Duck five times fast. That's a foul name, not a fowl name.
Posted by: Erik R. | 4:59PM, 11.06.07
We were tripped up by the relatively tame act of calling someone a "prisspot." Various uncles would get one of us cousins, when we were impressionable and pronounciation-vague toddlers, to call someone else in the family said name, which inevitably, for a linguistic reason sgazzetti could no doubt explain, dropped the r.
Hilarity ensued, etc.
Posted by: Jane | 6:40AM, 11.07.07
That's so sweet. My three year old daughter swears like a trooper. Her current favourite is "For fuck's sake!"
We try to ignore it, hoping that she'll give up when she sees that it doesn't get a reaction.
No, I've no idea where she heard it first.
Ahem...
Posted by: simon | 6:57AM, 11.07.07
See, now I'm embarrassed. I didn't know what a swear word was until I was six. I've since mastered the art of profanity, and encourage others to do so, as long as they are used to enhance your vocabulary rather than replace it.
Posted by: Mike | 7:56AM, 11.07.07
For fuck's sake!
Posted by: andrea | 8:39AM, 11.07.07
Goddamn.
Posted by: Jane | 8:52AM, 11.07.07
I hadn't heard that one, but in reading it it didn't trip me up. But when I tried to say it without reading....
Posted by: Leslie | 9:51AM, 11.07.07
She sleet-shat a slitted sheet.
Posted by: Wil | 10:50AM, 11.07.07
Posted by: Erik R. | 11:17AM, 11.07.07