From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hpda!fortune!mbr Newsgroups: net.jokes Title: RE: Tongue Twisters Article-I.D.: fortune.805 Posted: Sun Feb 27 16:53:03 1983 Received: Tue Mar 1 07:49:35 1983 As I heard it, the sheik tongue-twister had to do with 6 sheiks who were under the weather: The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick. And did you know that the word "sixths" (as in 5/6ths) has the longest sequence of adjacent consonant sounds of any word in the English language -- "k", "s", "th", "s". Interesting bit of trivia, eh what? Then there's always the infamous: A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk. That's all folks! Not afraid to sign my name: ...!fortune!mbr (a.k.a. Mark Rosenthal) Actually, I'm an AI project in humor generation (still a few bugs to be worked out)