[Lexicog] names as characteristic of a category

[Fritz Goerling]

Kim, what do you mean by "Spoonerism" in relation to this thread? Did you
mean the word formation type "name of famous person" + -ism. If not, yes,
why don't we share some good spoonerisms on this list, where plays on words
are welcome.

Here is one:

 

A  certain village chief once visited Europe and saw how European royalty

live. In particular, he was impressed by the British queen on her grand

throne. When he got back to his village in Africa, he got a throne made,

just like the queen's. But he had problems fitting it in his grass hut -

every evening he would have to move it out to make space for sleeping. So he

devised a plan - he worked out a clever system of pulleys and ropes, so

that, at the end of each day's official business, he would just have the

throne lifted up into the roof of the hut, leaving space for sleeping

underneath it. Tragically, on the first night of the new arrangement, a gust

of wind, or a passing gecko, or simply the weight of the great throne, sent

it crashing down on top of the chief and his wife, and they were killed.

Which all goes to show that people in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones!

Fritz 

 <http://fr.mail.yahoo.com> How about "Spoonerism"? A bit different but...
Kim

...



    Apart from the biblical names, how about living people or from the more
recent past:

    he is no Maradona, he is a wannabe Elvis, you are not a Jack Kennedy



Best wishes,

John Roberts





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