Mike says a mouthful.

First, a little history - Spoonerisms. A spoonerism is a play on words in which corresponding consonants, vowels or morphemes (I had to look it up) are switched. It is named after the Reverend William Archibald Spooner (1944-1930), Warden of New College, Oxford, who was notoriously prone to this tendency. Here are a few examples:

• "The Lord is a shoving leopard" ("loving shepherd")
• "Mardon me, padam, this pie is occupewed. Can I sew you to another sheet?" (Pardon me, madam, this pew is occupied. Can I show you to another seat?")
• And this masterpiece, said to a student: "You have hissed all my mystery lectures, and were caught fighting a liar in the quad. Having tasted two worms, you will leave by the next town drain" ("missed ... history," "lighting a fire," "wasted two terms," "down train")

Again this week, I honor Mike "Cobra" Kimbrel (click here to see marvelous Mike at top form, i.e. Bono-kicking) . Mike, like the Rev. Spooner also has a linguistic phenomenon named after him: the Kimbrelism. Most times, a kimbrelism occurs when Mike is singing or citing a pop culture reference. A list of favorites, compiled over the years:

• Anklets - instead of cankles
• Huckenberries - huckleberries
• Kong fu hustle - kung-fu hustle
• Shiser Kozay - Kaiser Soze
  
• A candlelight virgil - candlelight vigil
  
• Bing bing - bling bling
• Ken-yuh West and his popular hit, Jesus Rocks - that would be Kanye West's "Jesus Walks"
  
• Roofers - roofies
• Pinot garagio - pinot grigio
• Greaseling - reisling
• The fur pull - full pour, used in a sentence: Give me a fur pull of pinot garagio, or on second thought, do you have a nice greaseling?
  
• Calvin Simpson - former OU b-ball coach, Kelvin Sampson
  
• Telebabies - Teletubbies
  
• Hereby, hereby - Hear ye, hear ye
  
• Soap duds - soap suds
• The KGBI - a nefarious combo of the FBI and KGB that followed Sly Stallone around in Rocky IV
  
• Garndorf - Gandolf from Lord of the Rings
• Bruce Williamson in "The Lost Boy Scout" - that's Bruce Willis in "The Last Boy Scout"
• Roy Lolita - Ray Liota
• Phil Huffman and Phyllis Seymour Hartman - both Phillip Seymour Hoffman
• Deznel Washington - this one is pretty common, though it's Denzel Washington
• Civil War - silverware
• Bone Pickens - Boone Pickens
  
• Besides she is way hotter than you - said to Jenn, his future wife to reassure her that he was not looking at that other girl
  
• Jello fish - jellyfish
  
• Eskimoos live in iglows - Eskimos and igloos
  
• Beaming W - BMW
  
• Jojo beans - jelly beans
  
• Decaficated - defecated (perhaps after coffee?)
  
• Angelhair - Angelfire, NM
• Dinky - DKNY
• Turtle, Texas - Tuttle, Oklahoma
• Someone slipped a Ru Paul in my drink. - again, "roofie"
  
• Parishonal vision - peripheral vision
  
• Third winner - I'm third
• Darson's queek - Dawson's Creek
• All in a day's night - all in a day's work
• Livin it up, Elvita - Aerosmith's "Love in an Elevator"
  
• Somebody told me, it was it was your birthday... - The Killers "Somebody Told Me, You Had A Boyfriend"
  
• Oooo oooo oooo oooo - Crash Test Dummies song "Mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm"
• Happy trails to you. Again I say hello. - sort of changes the meaning of the song, eh?
• What's cooler than being ice cold? - Outkast's "Hey Yah," the question being: "What's cooler than being cool?" Answer: "Ice cold." But in Mike's world, the answer is: "Nothing, I guess."
• Shake it like a polaroid camera - same song, that should be: "shake it like a polaroid picture"
• Five Young Cannonballs - the band, Fine Young Cannibals
• And finally, Mike singing the song, "Jenny, 867-5309" - with video evidence, courtesy of Jeff T. Roberts (Rated PG-13 for Language - but no "F" bombs)

Congratulations, Mike & Jenn! Remember, "It is kisstomary to cuss the bride!"