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“Okay, you’ve passed the fire test, the riding test, and the combat test … but now, paleface, now you must say ‘toy boat’ three times real fast!”

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[–] 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)
  • [–] [S] 15 points 1 month ago

    He's passed several difficult tests to be accepted by their tribe or prove his worth, or something like that. The joke is that the tongue twister is considered harder than all of that.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    Is that a known tongue twister? If so, it's a very tame one. I just did it 20 odd times to check.

    The sixth sheikh's sixth sheep's sick is a winner. As is I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son, I'm forever plucking pheasants til the pheasant plucker comes.

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