Friday, October 29, 2010

Ladle Rat Rotten Hut (Little Red Riding Hood)

For those who have forgotten, or those too young ever to have seen this classic piece, I reprint it here. For reasons which may be called 'meaning dissonance' the piece is actually rather hard to read, since the well-known words of the story are replaced by similar-sounding words of totally different meaning. The best way I think to enjoy the piece is to present it to someone and have them try to read it aloud -- just read the words as written and not try to gather any meaning from them. The results are pretty hilarious.

Ladle Rat Rotten Hut: Annulled Furry Starry


Wants pawn term, dare worsted ladle gull hoe lift wetter murder inner ladle
cordage honor itch offer lodge, dock florist. Disc ladle gull often worry ladle
cluck wetter putty ladle rat hut, end fur disc raisin pimple colder Ladle Rat
Rotten Hut.

Wan moaning Rat Rotten Hut's murder colder inset: "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut, heresy
ladle basking winsome burden barter end shirker cockles. Tick disc ladle basking
tudor cordage offer groin murder hoe lifts honor udder site offer florist.
Shaker lake, dun stopper laundry wrote! Dun stopper peck floors! Dun daily-doily
inner florist, end yonder nor sorghum stenches dun stopper torque wet strainers."

"Hoe-cake, murder," resplendent Ladle Rat Rotten Hot, end tickle ladle basking
end stuttered oft. Honor wrote tudor cordage offer groin murder, Ladle Rat
Rotten Hut mitten anomalous woof.

"Wail, wail, wail," set disc wicket woof, "evanescent Ladle Rat Rotten Hut!
Wares or putty ladle gull goring wizard ladle basking?"

"Armor goring tumor groin murder's," reprisal ladle gull. "Grammars seeking bet.
Armor ticking arson burden barter end shirker cockles."
"O hoe! Heifer blessing woke," setter wicket woof, butter taught tomb shelf, "Oil
tickle shirt court tudor cordage offer groin murder. Oil ketchup wetter letter,
end den -- O bore!"

Soda wicket woof tucker shirt court, end whinney retched a cordage offer groin
murder, picket inner widow end sore debtor oil worming worse lion inner bet.
Inner flesh disc abdominal woof lipped honor betting adder rope. Zany pool dawn
a groin murder's nut cup end gnat gun, any curdle dope inner bet.

Inner ladle wile Ladle Rat Rotten Hut a raft attar cordage end ranker dough ball.

"Comb ink, sweat hard," setter wicket woof, disgracing is verse. Ladle Rat
Rotten Hut entity bet rum end stud buyer groin murder's bet.

"O grammar," crater ladle gull, "wart bag icer gut! A nervous sausage bag ice!"
"Buttered lucky chew whiff, doling," whiskered disc ratchet woof, wetter wicket
small.

"O grammar, water bag noise! A nervous sore suture anomalous prognosis!"

"Buttered small your whiff," inserter woof, ants mouse worse waddling.

"O grammar, water bag mousey gut! A nervous sore suture bag mouse!"

Daze worry on forger nut gull's lest warts. Oil offer sodden throne offer
carvers an sprinkling otter bet, disc curl end bloat Thursday woof ceased pore
Ladle Rat Rotten Hut end garbled erupt.

Mural: Yonder nor sorghum stenches shut ladle gulls stopper torque wet strainers.

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