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What is it about?
The Power of Words.
How playing with words and images can change the meaning of things.
PalindromesRead Them Forwards or Backwards, they translate to the same thing!
Was it Eliot's toilet I saw?Evil I Dwell, Lewd I LiveAble was I ere I saw Elba
A Santa at NASAMalayalam
RacecarRotorAvivaNayanKayakPoopNitinBobTit
Anagrams
Britney Spears – Presbyterian – Best in PrayerTom Marvolo Riddle – I am Lord Voldermot
Osama Bin Laden – A Damn Alien S.O.B.Music Television – Live Mice Sit on UsElection Results – Lies, Lets Recount!
George Bush – He Bugs GoreBob Marley – Bomb Layer
Axl Rose – Oral Sex
Alphabets rearranged to create a new meaning.
More interesting ones
Shashi Tharoor – Hashish Orator
Kim Kardashian – Kinda Hair Mask
Paris Hilton – Ah! Loin Strip
Mother in Law – Woman Hitler
President Clinton of the USA - He finds interns to copulate
Princess Diana – End is a Car spin
Ambigrams
Pangrams
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog.
Few black taxis drive up major roads on quiet hazy nights.
Sentences which have all 26 letters of the English alphabet in them.
Benny Hill’s use of Wordplay
Alfred Hawthorne Hill
21 January 1924 – 19 April 1992
Best known for:
The Benny Hill Show
Did a Cameo in the movie
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
His Style of humor
Very tongue in cheek
Provocative yet innocent
Suggestive yet silly
Instances
The Institute for Technological Sciences
Acronym (T.I.T.S.)
Rosemary’sSnapshot Album
Remember, it is a
Martin’Dartin’Hartin’ &Fargo Production.
Spoonerisms
Ease my Tears – Tease My Ears
Wave the sails – Save the Whales
Chipping the Flannel – Flipping the Channel
At the lead of Spite – At the speed of Light
Go and shake a tower – Go and take a shower
For those who pick up fast
The acrobats displayed some cunning stunts!
He is not a pheasant plucker!
She showed me her tool kits
He is a smart fella!
The suffering of purgery on my soul!
Try changing the Sounds (not the spellings) of the words marked in Red
Left brain Right Brain Conflictwith words.
GreenWhiteBlueOrangeYellowRed
Try saying the color only…NOT the word!
Priming
That part of our brain that leaps to conclusions is called adaptive unconscious.
It is a kind of Backstage process in our brain that allows us to take split second decisions.
Recommended Reading
Malcolm Gladwell’s – Blink.
Priming is
Manipulation of actions with the subtle use of words.
You can almost judge/predict what a person will do with the help of words.
Priming is not
Hypnotism
Magic
Google ad words!
Words and women are alike…
They can soothe as well as hurt!
Both are manipulative!
A man needs the right ones at the right times!
Both women and words are often abused in society.
They are intrinsic to every society.
The curvier the better!
The wrong ones can break relationships!
A List of Regular words that the censor just hates! – Chuck Lorre (Big Bang Theory)
Fecund, penal, taint, titmouse, cockamamie, cockatoo, cocksure, coccyx, ballcock, cockeye, prick, prickly,titter, cunning linguist, insertion, gobble, guzzle, Swallow…etc etc etc!
Thank you.
Ralston. Twitter: rallyrockstar69Email: [email protected]
On a parting note…