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“Okay, you’ve passed the fire test, the riding test, and the combat test … but now, paleface, now you must say ‘toy boat’ three times real fast!”

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I don't get it.

Try saying toy boat three times fast. I just tried and keep screwing up boat with boait or something haha.

Try saying "toy boat" three times very fast without messing up.

He's passed several difficult tests to be accepted by their tribe or prove his worth, or something like that. The joke is that the tongue twister is considered harder than all of that.

Oh, I didn't realize it's supposed to be a tongue twister.

I tried pronouncing it before asking, and failed to notice it's supposed to be a tongue twister.

Is that a known tongue twister? If so, it's a very tame one. I just did it 20 odd times to check.

The sixth sheikh's sixth sheep's sick is a winner. As is I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son, I'm forever plucking pheasants til the pheasant plucker comes.

I can do the pheasant one much easier than toy boat for some reason