Tongue twisters and silly poems
Arthur
and his father
They
rode from south to north
The
length and breadth of England
To
reach the Firth of Forth
Then
they raced each other northwards
For
all that they were worth
And
father reached Midlothian
As
Arthur stopped in Perth
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Don't
think about Pink Elephants,
Don't
think about them now.
Think
of anything at all,
Anywhere
or how.
Think
up or down
Or
near or far
Across
the continents,
But
don't, and I mean don't,
Think
about Pink Elephants.
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I
thought a thought.
But
the thought I thought wasn't the thought
I
thought I thought.
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There
those thousand thinkers were thinking
where
did those other three thieves go through.
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Thirty-three
thousand people think that Thursday is their thirtieth birthday.
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She
sells sea-shells on the sea shore;
The
shells that she sells are sea-shells, I’m sure.
So
if she sells sea-shells on the sea-shore,
I’m
sure that the shells are sea-shore shells.
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Yellow
butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
Spread
it thick, say it quick!
Yellow
butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
Spread
it thicker, say it quicker!
Yellow
butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
Don't
eat with your mouth full!
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Peter
Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A
peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's
the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
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Betty
Botter had some butter,
"But,"
she said, "this butter's bitter.
If
I bake this bitter butter,
it
would make my batter bitter.
But
a bit of better butter--
that
would make my batter better."
So
she bought a bit of butter,
better
than her bitter butter,
and
she baked it in her batter,
and
the batter was not bitter.
So
'twas better Betty Botter
bought
a bit of better butter.
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A
flea and a fly flew up in a flue.
Said
the flea, "Let us fly!"
Said
the fly, "Let us flee!"
So
they flew through a flaw in the flue.
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Which
wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?
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You've
no need to light a night-light
On
a light night like tonight,
For
a night-light's light's a slight light,
And
tonight's a night that's light.
When
a night's light, like tonight's light,
It
is really not quite right
To
light night-lights with their slight lights
On
a light night like tonight.
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If
one doctor doctors another doctor, does the doctor
who
doctors the doctor doctor the doctor the way the
doctor
he is doctoring doctors? Or does he doctor
the
doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors?
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Ned
Nott was shot
and Sam Shott was not.
So
it is better to be Shott
than Nott.
Some
say Nott
was not shot.
But
Shott says
he shot Nott.
Either
the shot Shott shot at Nott
was not shot,
or
Nott was shot.
If
the shot Shott shot shot Nott,
Nott was shot.
But
if the shot Shott shot shot Shott,
then Shott was shot,
not Nott.
However,
the shot Shott shot shot not Shott --
but Nott.
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Theophiles
Thistle, the successful thistle-sifter,
in
sifting a sieve full of un-sifted thistles,
thrust
three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb.
Now.....if
Theophiles Thistle, the successful thistle-sifter,
in
sifting a sieve full of un-sifted thistles,
thrust
three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb,
see
that thou, in sifting a sieve full of un-sifted thistles,
thrust
not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb.
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Thank
the other three brothers of their father's mother's brother's side.
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They
both, though, have thirty-three thick thimbles to thaw.