"Kinkering Kongs their Titles Take" (with an alternative spelling) one of the "few" authenticated Spoonerisms, dates it to 1879, and he gives nine examples "attributed to Spooner, most of them spuriously." They are as follows: "Three cheers for our queer old dean!" (while giving a toast at a dinner, which Queen Victoria was also attending) "Is it kisstomary to cuss the bride?" (as opposed to "customary to kiss") "The Lord is a shoving leopard." (instead of "a loving shepherd") "A blushing crow." ("crushing blow") "A well-boiled icicle" ("well-oiled bicycle") "You were fighting a liar in the quadrangle." ("lighting a fire") "Is the bean dizzy?" ("Dean busy") "Someone is occupewing my pie. Please sew me to another sheet." ("Someone is occupying my pew. Please show me to another seat.") "You have hissed all my mystery lectures. You have tasted a whole worm. Please leave Oxford on the next town drain." ("You have missed all my history lectures. You have wasted a whole term. Please leave Oxford on the next down train.") A newspaper column attributes this additional example to Spooner: "A nosey little cook." (as opposed to a "cosy little nook"). Popular use/culture In modern terms, spoonerism generally refers to any changing of sounds in this manner. Comedy The Washington, D.C. political comedy sketch group Capitol Steps has a long-standing tradition of performing a routine called "Lirty Dies" during every performance, which features a typically 10-minute-long barrage of rapid-fire topical spoonerisms. A few examples over the years range from "Resident Pagan" (President Reagan) and the US's periodic practice of "Licking their Peaders" (Picking their leaders) to the NSA "poopin' on Snutin" (Snoopin' on Putin) and "phugging everybody's bones" (bugging everybody's phones). Comedian Jane Ace was notorious for her spoonerisms and other similar plays on words during her run as star of the radio sitcom Easy Aces. Literature Comedian F. Chase Taylor was the star of the 1930s radio program Stoopnagle and Budd, in which his character, Colonel Stoopnagle, used spoonerisms. In 1945, he published a book, My Tale Is Twisted, consisting of 44 "spoonerised" versions of well-known children's stories. Subtitled "Wart Pun: Aysop's Feebles" and "Tart Pooh: Tairy and Other Fales," these included such tales as "Beeping Sleauty" for "Sleeping Beauty". The book was republished in 2001 by Stone and Scott Publishers as Stoopnagle's Tale is Twisted. In 2005, HarperCollins published the late humorist Shel Silverstein's Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook,