Tennis the Man

The barely two-year-old waited for her mom to serve up her dinner. She turned to me and said, "Mama's gonna hook me up."

According to the same, the fellow below is Tennis the Man. Dad is the scarecrow, Mom is the lion, and she, of course, is Dorothy.

"Wankees" and Other Spoonerisms

I started to ask a question this morning: "Did the Wankees...?" You'll understand why I was unable to finish the question due to fits of laughter. The questionee helped me out by not making me try again. Instead she just confirmed that the Yankees did win.

And it started me thinking about fun language slip ups I've had. Like the time I called the music shop and asked if they had someone who could "toot my flune." What I really wanted was someone to tune my flute.

And just last week, as I watched my favorite high school football team fumble ball, after ball, after ball, I thought up a cheer to encourage them to hold on to the pigskin. In my head, it went like this: Put on your sticky fingers, hey, hey, hey!" It came out of my mouth like this: "Put on your sticker fingies" and I never even got to the heys.

I know I'm not the only one with language slip ups like these, so I wanted to hear yours. Go on, put it out there and we'll all have a laugh.