"Roning the Boast"
PROPOS of Dr. Spooner, said to be * responsible for so many so-called © "Spoonerisms," I think the most amus~ . ing I have heard was when he threat-/. ened to write to the father of one 0: his pupils, telling him he had "delib-, erately tasted two worms" (wasted . two terms). I amused my family one — Sunday. morning by asking my husband if he would "roast the bone" for me, He said, "Certainly, but what bone. do you want roasted?" "Oh, I mean to say, ‘ron the boast,’" I ans- » wered, then, seeing by their faces that I was still wrong, I managed to ask
him to "bone the roast."
BECKY
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Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 21, 5 December 1930, Page 32
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112"Roning the Boast" Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 21, 5 December 1930, Page 32
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