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  • For @Oliver Schick not Freudian slips but spooneristic quotes and bits of speeches from a byglum age..

    • On meeting a widow, he remarked with sincerity, "her husband came to a sad end. He was eaten by missionaries."
    • Calling John Millington Synge's famous Irish play "The Ploughboy of the Western World.
    • At a wedding: "kisstomary to cuss the bride."
    • "Blushing crow" for "crushing blow."
    • In Church "The Lord is a shoving leopard"
    • "A well-boiled icicle" for "well-oiled bicycle."
    • "I have in my bosom a half-warmed fish" (for half-formed wish), supposedly said in a speech to Queen Victoria.
    • A toast to "our queer old dean" instead of to "our dear old Queen."
    • Upon dropping his hat: "Will nobody pat my hiccup?"
    • "Go and shake a tower" (Go and take a shower).
    • Paying a visit to a college official: "Is the bean dizzy?"
    • giving instructions “You will leave by the town drain."
    • When our boys come home from France, we will “have the hags flung out”.
    • "Such Bulgarians should be vanished..." (Such vulgarians should be banished).
    • Addressing farmers as "ye noble tons of soil".
    • "You have tasted a whole worm" (to a lazy student).
    • "The weight of rages will press hard upon the employer."
    • "Mardon me padom, you are occupewing my pie. May I sew you to another sheet?"

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