Saturday, March 7, 2009

Dry Ones

1) As easy as it gets.Just give the country "X",whose History is being talked about.

The modern X was formed in 1127 when a tribal chief called Hveghi drove away Turkish conquerors and took the name Muskar. Y conquered the country in 1195 until _____ drove them away in 1275. ______became King in 1360. When an enemy, Baron Staszrvitch, claimed the Throne and attacked him with his sword, ______ struck him to the ground with his _______. The King then decreed that the ruler of X must have hold on the ______, otherwise he would lose his authority. This custom had a power of law as late as 1939.
In 1939 X was nearly invaded by its neighbor Y, as part of a plot to oust King Muskar XII. (The situation was very similar to that of Anschluss in Austria in 1938 though the conclusion was not the same).

2)A X is an error in speech or deliberate play on words in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched.While X are commonly heard as slips of the tongue resulting from unintentionally getting one's words in a tangle, they can also be used intentionally as a play on words.
eg:
  • "Three cheers for our queer old dean!" (dear old queen, referring to Queen Victoria)
  • "Is it kisstomary to cuss the bride?" (customary to kiss)
  • "The Lord is a shoving leopard." (a loving shepherd)
  • "A blushing crow." (crushing blow)
  • "A well-boiled icicle" (well-oiled bicycle)
  • "You were fighting a liar in the quadrangle." (lighting a fire)
  • "Is the bean dizzy?" (dean busy)
  • "Someone is occupewing my pie. Please sew me to another sheet." (occupying my pew...show me to another seat)
  • "You have hissed all my mystery lectures. You have tasted a whole worm. Please leave Oxford on the next town drain." (missed...history, wasted...term, down train)

In reality, the song X is written by Gopal Singh Nepali for the movie Narsi Bhagat (1957). This song is also credited as traditional and originally written by 15th century poet Narsinh Mehta, whose life that film is based on. (Many, including the film Y , mistakenly attribute it to the 16th-century poet Z due to the fact that Z was blind and the song is a prayer asking God to "appear" before him, for his "eyes thirst for Your sight".)