Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Swim, Sam, Swim

Wow, it's now July. We're past the half-year mark.
Here's a tongue twister to start this new month.

When Thomas Wareing's car collided with a trunk
in Preston, England, police arrested him for drink
driving.

"Rubbish," Wareing told the arresting officer.
"Listen to this:
Swim, Sam, swim, Sam, swim. Show them
you are some swimmer. Swim likethe snow
white swan swam. A well swum swim is a
swim well-swum. So swim, Sam, swim."

The policeman was not impressed. He issued
a summons. When Wareing was tried, he recited
the tongue twister for the jury. The verdict?
Innocent.