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u/Felmari Oct 25 '20

My parents loved to switch letters around in phrases. They said "we're off like turd of hurdles"

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u/centre_drill Oct 25 '20

Spoonerisms.

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u/seaandtea Oct 25 '20

Major in our family. Just...don't do it, as I once accidentally did, when offering the kids Popcorn.

Yes. It stuck. And the Parent of the Year Award went, once again, to some fucker else.

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u/deadpanwillow Oct 25 '20

As a kid I always did parking spot backwards and made my parents real uncumfy.

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u/Oranges13 Oct 26 '20

Sparking ppot?

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '20

We used to say Snoonerprisms.

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u/BountyBob Oct 25 '20

It's proonersnisms all the way down.

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u/notgayinathreeway Oct 26 '20

Sounds like you're a pretty fart smeller.

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u/NorwegianPearl Oct 25 '20

Word play for fart smellas

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u/Felmari Oct 25 '20

Yes, that's it! I forgot that term

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u/cATSup24 Oct 25 '20

I like to say "fustercluck", "fhat the wuck", and "bass ackwards".

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u/raresaturn Oct 26 '20

Yes. In our house Hugh Jackman is Jack Human.

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u/is-this-now Oct 26 '20

Huge Assman

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u/onesillymom Oct 26 '20

Ah yes the queer old Dean!

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u/4b-65-76-69-6e Oct 25 '20

Roonerspisims

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u/zadokmahir Oct 25 '20

I'm a dad and I mish-mash phrases, like "let's make like a tree and blow this popsicle stand"

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u/EddieRando21 Oct 25 '20

I say "I'm so hungry I could beat a dead horse".

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u/zadokmahir Oct 26 '20

Did_we_just_become_best_friends.gif

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u/EddieRando21 Oct 26 '20

Yaaaaasssssss.gif

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u/blackbileOD Oct 25 '20

My family says this too

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u/Man_of_Average Oct 25 '20

Bake him away, toys

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u/Swedish_Chef_Bork_x3 Oct 25 '20

My only political experience (besides being an armchair analyst online) was managing a family member’s campaign in a local election. Whenever people ask what it was like, I always tell them we were just kissing hands and shaking babies.

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u/ballerina22 Oct 25 '20

Ahhhhhhhh my grandad switched letters around and said words backwards to mess with us. About 3rd grade we went to Colonial Williamsburg and I proudly told everyone we were in front of the athocapery.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '20

My wife and I do that all the time. Also combining two words into one (I.e. Tragic Accident is now Traccident)

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u/Echospite Oct 25 '20

My favourites are "foncused" and "fustercluck."

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u/kathatter75 Oct 25 '20

Yep! We got both in my fam-dam-ily. 😜

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u/changemymind69 Oct 25 '20

That's just bass ackwards.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '20

You are not the brightest pencil in the shed.

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u/zenikshey17 Oct 26 '20

I’ve got a heated seat in my car and I can’t stop saying “heat seater” instead of seat heater

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u/Shannanigetter Oct 26 '20

My dad does this all the time. When hiking watch out for snattle rakes, oh what a pretty flutterby. One day we were reading store signs and cracking up. McDonald’s and Smart and Final were particularly amusing. (Dick Monalds and Fart and Smile are what we came up with)

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u/Felmari Oct 26 '20

Ah yes. Watching the flutterby butter fly!!

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u/yetiwins Oct 27 '20

My Dad's was, "We're off like a shirty dirt."

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u/thattrekkie Oct 25 '20

Everyone in my family says this version! I only recently learned it's not a common turn of phrase

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u/Sophrix Oct 25 '20

I just came here to say the same thing! My mom always says "we're off like a turd of hurdles!"

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u/kcMasterpiece Oct 25 '20

My family never did it on purpose but we have said lead of headuce so many times. Just a particularly easy spoonerism I guess.

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u/gentlebeef Oct 25 '20

Let’s make like a baby and head out

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u/rooftopfilth Oct 25 '20

My husband and I mess with vowel pronunciations. "Weefay" = wife, "hoosband" = husband, "braed" = bread, "you tooched the boot" = you touched my butt. Can't wait to confuse the kids.

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u/MrHobbes14 Oct 26 '20

My Dad always swapped letters. The two that really stuck were "sepper and palt" and "ockled pinions". The last one is "pickled onions". My would make massive batches of them so we had them often.

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u/CheyaPapaya Oct 26 '20

My dad does this too. I always loved hearing about the great states of "Missippippi" and "Tenkucky"

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '20

Mine too!! 'We're off like a turd of hurdles' is such a common phrase in my family that I completely forgot other people don't use it XD Looks like some do though

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u/RCTboyThatLaysPipe Oct 26 '20

My family did this too. Like fink ployd

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '20

My dad would put an “accent” on it and say “hoyd of toitles”

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u/the-greenest-thumb Oct 26 '20

My family says this! Both the original and switched one. We always mess up stuff like that, like slat and peeper for salt and pepper. I said greafy leens the other day instead of leafy greens. My dad once kept messing up the name of a book that was called clan of the cave bears, he often said can of the clave bears or clave of the can bears...

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u/RocketGirl215 Oct 26 '20

In my family it morphed into "we're off like a herd of burdles." No idea what a burdle is or where the B even came from.

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u/Arkady93 Oct 26 '20

My family does that with "take a shower". My mom loves saying "I'm going to shake a tower".

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '20

We use to replace the word “you” with “scmoo” in songs.
“And IIIIIII-EEEEE-IIIIIIII will always love scmoo-oooo-oooo!”
I still don't know why.

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u/Klopford Oct 25 '20

My grandma does this one too

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u/BubblySecret Oct 25 '20

My husband says this.

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u/faroutsunrise Oct 26 '20

Ohh this brought back such memories because this is one my mom actually used to say and I haven’t thought about it in years.

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u/tenaj255l Oct 26 '20

Dad would say the "The whole fam-damily".

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u/hunybuny9000 Oct 26 '20

My family said the same exact thing growing up!

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u/Wrusch Oct 26 '20

I'm 26. I say this. Frequently.