It’s Spooner’s Day! Grab your binoculars and let's go word botching! (Via wood s lot.)
Posted by languagehat at July 22, 2004 03:29 PMI ordered a "Maccha Latteacho" instead of a Latte Macchiato the other day. The waitress just nodded her head, but my friend had a good laugh.
Posted by: Anne at July 23, 2004 02:45 AMI read this many years ago, and immediately memorized it. It was credited to one of the Pythons (Terry Jones, maybe?), but I can't remember which one:
A Port Shoem
by the Speverend Rooner
I've a gouse and a hard-on in the country,
An ace to call my plown.
A treat I can replace to
When I bead to knee alone.
Yes, wature here is nunderful;
There is no weed for nerds.
While silling by windowflutter
Biny little turds.