Word Play

As many a family, we used to engage in word play on car trips, especially long ones to see relatives on the opposite coast.  Those days are gone, but I can still be stirring a pot of soup or washing a window when, for no reason in particular, I'll remember one of those games and chuckle.

Here's one, made popular by a member of the family who liked to recite it with a twinkle whether we were crossing Wyoming or giving a dinner party.  To wit:  What did the little boy who couldn't pronounce "R" say when he was given this sentence to repeat aloud, "Robert gave Richard a rap in the ribs for roasting the rabbit too rare."  Answer:  "Bob gave Dick a poke in the side for not cooking the bunny enough."

We also played hink pink.  A hink pink is a riddle with two one-syllable words rhyming.  To the question, "What is a rotund feline?" the answer, of course, is a "fat cat."  If the riddle calls for two-syllable words to rhyme, the game is then announced as a hinky-pinky.  Three-syllable rhyming words would be a hinkety-pinkety.  As it was told to me (because it happened long before I entered the picture), one answer called for the rhyming of two six-syllable words.  (A hinkety-hinkety pinkety-pinkety.)  Admittedly, being a three-word answer, the rules were bent a bit.

The question:  What is a charitable yellow jar for burial bones?

The answer:  An eleemosynary yellow ossuary

Tongue twisters made a good game, too.  Here's one:

A tutor who tooted the flute

Tried to teach two young tooters to toot.

Said the two to the tutor,

"Is it harder to toot, or

To tutor two tooters to toot?"

Finally, here's an amusing little something a friend passed along.  Read each letter aloud.  If it doesn't come through the first time, go a little faster.

F-U-N-E-M?

S-V-F-M

F-U-N-E-X?

S-V-F-X

O-K, M-N-X

:-)

Since I like to try and include a photo with each blog posting, here is a hinky pinky:  What is this flower I found in Bali?

An awesome blossom

As Porky Pig used to say, "That's all, Folks!"