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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

2 I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop. Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.

3 How many boards Could the Mongols hoard If the Mongol hordes got bored? from the comic Calvin & Hobbes, by Bill Waterson

4 How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?

5 Send toast to ten tense stout saints' ten tall tents. by Raymond Weisling

6 Denise sees the fleece, Denise sees the fleas. At least Denise could sneeze and feed and freeze the fleas.

7 Coy knows pseudonoise codes. by Pierre Abbat

8 Sheena leads, Sheila needs.

9 The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.

10 Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumped and thundered threatening the three-D thoughts of Matthew the thug - although, theatrically, it was only the thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns through the underneath of his thigh that the thirty year old thug thought of that morning. by Meaghan Desbiens

11 Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?

12 Seth at Sainsbury's sells thick socks.

13 You cuss, I cuss, we all cuss, for asparagus! from a Far Side cartoon by Gary Larson

14 Roberta ran rings around the Roman ruins.

15 Clean clams crammed in clean cans.

16 Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.

17 I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.

18 Stupid superstition!

19 There was a fisherman named Fisher who fished for some fish in a fissure. Till a fish with a grin, pulled the fisherman in. Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher.

20 World Wide Web

21 To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock, Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock, From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block! To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock, Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock, From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block! A dull, dark dock, a life-long lock, A short, sharp shock, a big black block! To sit in solemn silence in a pestilential prison, And awaiting the sensation From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block! by W.S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan from The Mikado

22 Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut-Butter, 'tis the peanut-butter picky people pick. from a commercial

23 If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?

24 Luke Luck likes lakes. Luke's duck likes lakes. Luke Luck licks lakes. Luck's duck licks lakes. Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes. Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes. from Dr. Seuss' Fox in Socks

25 Seventy seven benevolent elephants harder than it seems

26 There those thousand thinkers were thinking how did the other three thieves go through.

27 Santa's Short Suit Shrunk name of a children's book

28 I was born on a pirate ship Hold your tounge while saying it.

29 I scream, you scream, we all scream for icecream!

30 Wayne went to Wales to watch walruses.

31 In 'ertford, 'ereford and 'ampshire, 'urricanes 'ardly Hever 'appen. from the film "My Fair Lady"

32 One-one was a race horse. Two-two was one too. One-one won one race. Two-two won one too.

33 Eleven benevolent elephants

34 Celibate celebrant, celibate celebrant, celibate celebrant, ...

35 Willy's real rear wheel David Bowser in Harrisburg, PA

36 If Pickford's packers packed a packet of crisps would the packet of crisps that Pickford's packers packed survive for two and a half years? from Naomi Fletcher's real life

37 Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards

38 Gobbling gorgoyles gobbled gobbling goblins.

39 Did Dick Pickens prick his pinkie pickling cheap cling peaches in an inch of Pinch or framing his famed French finch photos?

40 Pirates Private Property

41 What a terrible tongue twister, what a terrible tongue twister, what a terrible tongue twister...

42 When you write copy you have the right to copyright the copy you write. ... continued here

43 A big black bug bit a big black dog on his big black nose! by Kitty Morrow

44 Elizabeth's birthday is on the third Thursday of this month.

45 Ann and Andy's anniversary is in April.

46 Flash message!

47 Frogfeet, flippers, swimfins.

48 Hassock hassock, black spotted hassock. Black spot on a black back of a black spotted hassock.

49 How many cookies could a good cook cook If a good cook could cook cookies? A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies.

50 How much ground would a groundhog hog, if a groundhog could hog ground? A groundhog would hog all the ground he could hog, if a groundhog could hog ground.

51 How much pot, could a pot roast roast, if a pot roast could roast pot.

52 How much wood could Chuck Woods' woodchuck chuck, if Chuck Woods' woodchuck could and would chuck wood? If Chuck Woods' woodchuck could and would chuck wood, how much wood could and would Chuck Woods' woodchuck chuck? Chuck Woods' woodchuck would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood as any woodchuck would, if a woodchuck could and would chuck wood.

53 Mary Mac's mother's making Mary Mac marry me. My mother's making me marry Mary Mac. Will I always be so Merry when Mary's taking care of me? Will I always be so merry when I marry Mary Mac? from a song by Carbon Leaf

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