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Bred Any Good Rooks Lately?: A Collection of Puns, Shaggy Dogs, Spoonerisms, Foghoots and Malappropriate Stories (Intrepid Linguistic Library)
  
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Bred Any Good Rooks Lately?: A Collection of Puns, Shaggy Dogs, Spoonerisms, Foghoots and Malappropriate Stories (Intrepid Linguistic Library) [Mass Market Paperback]

James Charlton , Mary Kornblum


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  • Mass Market Paperback
  • Publisher: Bantam Books (Mm); Reprint edition (Mar 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0440214580
  • ISBN-13: 978-0440214588
  • Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.7 x 1.3 cm
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,188,227 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
A Bantastic Fook 31 July 2001
By henryraddick@hotmail.com - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I love spoonerisms and puns and this book has a ton of them. My favourite example in the book is the one where Anne Widdecombe made her speech to the Tory faithful on the evils of European monetary integration. She meant to say "I don't want a European to snatch my pound" but she ended up saying pound my snatch, which made for an image I tried in vain to supress in my imagination. All in all an excellent light read.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
A very bunny fook 20 Oct 2002
By magellan - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Many people don't know the spoonerism was eponymously named after the famous professor Spooner, who was especially prone to these when he got excited. One time when he went to church, back in the days when they still had assigned pews, he found a woman occupying his seat, and said to her: "Mardon me padam, you are occupuing the wrong pie, may I sew you to another sheat?"

Overall, a very good book on this and other funny verbal conlabfulations. Oops, I mean confabulations.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
A funny little anthology 6 Jun 2005
By Ellis Godard - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Mass Market Paperback
To give more examples than the other the other reviewers already have might spoil the fun. But what they don't mention is that this is a collection, with stories and tales by Stephen King, Annie Dillard, Isaac Asimov, Mark Harris, John Haldeman, Lawrence Block, Willard Espy, Mark Strand, and a few dozen others. Puns, spoonerisms, and the like aren't quite my thing. But if they're up your alley, you'll love this collection - a poot on each hage! Uh... hoot on each page. ;)

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