Kit Lively - Twisted Tongues

Twisted
Tongues Jokes, Comics, Facts,
and
Tongue Twisters By Kit Lively and David Lewman
Illustrated by David DeGrand Workman Publishing * New York She sells seashells by the seashore. No, you didnt accidentally pick up a book about a beach gift shop. That sentence up there is whats known as a tongue twister. Try to say it ten times fast (go ahead!) and you are almost guaranteed to mix up the sh and s sounds. Thats part of the fun of tongue twisters; they make us confuse similar sounds and the result is twistedas in see sells sheshells by the sheasore, or worse. This is a book of tongue twisters, but it has a bonus factor.

All the tongue twisters here are gross. Some are just a little bit gross; some are very gross. In this book, instead of twisting your tongue around a sentence about someone selling shells (yawn!), youll be trying to say, Big bedbugs bite pet pugs butts. (Pardon me, did you say butts?) For maximum enjoyment of this book, follow these steps: Twist Level
Find a gross tongue twister you want to try. You can refer to the Twist Level meters throughoutthey rate each tongue twisters difficulty on a scale from one to ten. Now say the tongue twister ten times fast.

Dont let yourself pause or slow down! Get someone else in on the actyou can take turns with friends or family, trying out twisters of different difficulties and even challenging one another using some of the books contests and competitions. Did you mess up a lot? Were you repulsed by the grossness? Were you kicked off the school bus? All of those things are possible, and any of them means that this book is working. When you want to take a break from exercising your tongue, lips, and mouth, there are also revolting facts to read (like the one on page 90 about the leech that lived in a womans nose) and information about how and why tongue twisters happen. To top it all off, there are dozens of gross riddles and jokes told by these two talking boogers: Bigger
Booger Baby
Booger Now get twisting! And maybe keep a barf bag handy just in case. Twist Level
Please
release the
leechs
leash. Giraffes clean out their nostrils with their tongues.

Why pick when you can lick? Male hippos fling their poop by twirling their tails. They do this to mark their territories and attract the attention of females. Um... maybe try flowers? Twist Level
Blobby
Bobby
gobbled
gobs of
soggy
doggies. Twist Level
Herb heard
a sick squirrel
hurl. Twist Level
Brads
beasts
breathe
bad
breath
best. Twist Level
Brads
beasts
breathe
bad
breath
best.

Some dung beetles have special mouthparts that they use to eat dung. But theyre still lousy kissers. Twist Level
The skink
thinks the
skunk stinks. The skunk
thunk the
skink stunk.

Find a hard tongue twister from this book. while doing jumping jacks. while trying to touch your nose with your tongue. with your lips closed. underwater. to the tune of a parents least favorite song. while sipping a glass of water.* without closing your lips. saying it backward. with your teeth clenched. while eating crackers.* after youve had a filling at the dentist. *You may be asked to clean up. *You may be asked to clean up.

Twist Level
Annies
anemone*
is Emmys
enemy. *Pronounced a-NEH-meh-ne An immobile, column-shaped sea animal with wavy tentacles that resembles a plant or flower. Twist Level
Jims
jam jar of
squirming
germy
worms. Twist Level
Foul
owls
fool
vile
fowls. Birds called fulmars defend themselves by spray-vomiting orange stomach oil. Not surprisingly, it smells awful.

And thats why youre not
getting a pet fulmar. Twist Level
Galactic ticks
tickle tikes. Twist Level
Muskrats
wax Maxs
stache. The maggots of the human botfly burrow under your skin and live there for five to twelve weeks. When fly maggots infest your body, its called myiasis. Tapeworms are parasites that live in your intestines. Tapeworms are parasites that live in your intestines.

They can grow up to 82 feet long and live for 30 years. On the plus side, youll
always have plenty of bait! Twist Level
Big bedbugs
bite
pet pugs
butts. Twist Level
Splat!
The fat rat
is flat.

What lives in Australia,
jumps, and smells terrible? A KANGA-POO. Who has round ears, speaks
in a high voice, and is gross? ICKY MOUSE. How do you know a
scorpion is going to fart? SHE ASKS YOU TO PULL
HER STINGER.

Does a sick dog bark or arf? NEITHERHE BARFS. Who lives in the woods,
loves honey, and
sticks to everything? WINNIE-THE-GOO. How did the leech cross the ocean? IN A BLOOD VESSEL. Who breathes fire and
loves infection? PUS THE MAGIC DRAGON. Why did the dung beetle smear poop on his head? HE WANTED TO PUT
ON HIS THINKING CRAP. Whats inside a cows nose? MOO-CUS.

Why did the road avoid the chicken? BECAUSE SHE WAS FOUL. Twist Level