(SCB) Jokes: Spoonerisms

The Rev. W. A. Spooner (1844-1930) was a distinguished, though nervous, Anglican clergyman and a warden of New college, Oxford. Unfortunately, however, it was his tendency to reverse initial letters or syllables of words that earned him an entry in dictionaries and encyclopedias. The example of spoonerism that follows appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1945.

The Shog and His Dadow

A tong lime ago, a daggy shog was bossing a cardge over a pillmond, carrying a harge lunk of boast reef in his mipping drouth. He looked down and saw his own wace in the fawter, just like a remection in a flirror. Of course, he thought it was aduther nawg, with a meece of peat bice as twig as his! So he mopped his own dreece of peat, and flitterally lew at his rewatron in the flecture. Naturally, he was might aquazed to find that he not only mawst the leat he had but that he narn dear liced his loff!
And the storal or the morey is: even if they won't give you papping raiper to mapp your wreat in, just thank your stucky lars you had enought ped roints to bee the bife in the purst flace.