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Stoopnagle Twists Again
Presenting: Stoopnagle's Tale Is Twisted--Spoonerisms Run Amok by Keen James
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October 2002 -
Remember Prinderella and the Since? It begins: "Here is a story that will make your cresh fleep. It will give you poose gimples. Think of a poor little glip of a sirl, prery vitty, who, because she had two sisty uglers, had to flop the more . . . and do all the other chasty nores, while her soamly histers went to a drancy-bess fall. Wasn't that a shirty dame?" Maybe you remember Beeping Sleauty, The Pea Little Thrigs, The Woy Who Cried: "Boolf!" They're back: 43 tales twisted by Colonel Stoopnagle on the air and in print. Wonderful wordplay and delicious silliness for all ages. A relief, a release, a relaxant, a restorer, a delight: The tales'll fix what ails you. Keen James adds intriguing and useful information about Rev. Spooner (whose name gave us spoonerism), about Colonel Lemuel Q. Stoopnagle who demonstrated that "people have more fun than anybody," and about spoonerisms as art and craft. _______________________________________________________________ What readers have to say about Stoopnagle's Tale Is Twisted: "With whiz and witdom, Keen James entertainingly presents the tips of the slung and thud and blunder in our tough and rumble language. After reading these English terrors and tinglish errors, you'll finish the book optimistically and misty optically." --Richard Lederer, International Punster of the Year and author of Get Thee to a Punnery, Pun & Games, The Word Circus "This book is a good read-aloud for any age. It is very punny and humorous. Some kids find it more enjoyable if they are read to, with this book in particular, since spoonerisms tickle the verbal ear more than the mental ear. It is, in short, a beazing plook to any istener's lear." --Kyle Siderski, Nine-year-old Rhode Islander "Keen James has done us all the service of resurrecting a jewel of American language. Col. Stoopnagle's spoonerisms remind us of the beauty and wonder of words, and that as long as people speak, what they actually say is much funnier than what they mean to say. Truly, it is a thunderful wing." --Bill Harley, NPR Commentator, storyteller, Grammy nominee _________________________________________________________________ ISBN 1-891135-03-1--o--Paperback--o--5.25 x 8--o--188 pages--o--$16.95 Listed with Baker & Taylor
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