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2016: Watch for the date, and how you can enter by Skype, etc. from wherever you are! ________________________________________________
INTERNATIONAL TONGUE TWISTER CONTEST|
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Logic Puzzle Museum, 533 Milwaukee Av, downtown Burlington, Wisconsin, USA
Don't be late... the whole event goes quickly! Doors open at 1:45 pm.
$6/person, all ages.(admissions are paid in cash) Come to listen, watch, laugh... and take part if you wish, too.
Event is for ages 6-106, though not younger.
Tongue Twister Contest!!! and...
an extra smile with an old-fashion parlor trick to learn to try on your friends later! Space is limited, best to call ahead to order tickets.
Free parking. Gift shop open afterwards(cash, check or charge) Details on Racine Journal Times
A fun event & unique activity for families, for tourists and for groups.
.....Be here or be square......
it is the Annual
International Tongue Twister Contest
a puzzling contest presented by
the Logic Puzzle Museum!
How many can you say in less than 10 seconds?
Classic and modern phrases to twist contestant's tongues.
Age divisions, and great prizes such as a portion of "a peck of pickled peppers,"
and other tongue twister objects like a "toy boat" or a "yellow yo-yo" or "a spinning store top!"
Contest tongue twisters not given out ahead of time, for fear you would get laryngitis
by practicing too much. Laughter and fun promised for all! The contest has age divisions for peer fun.
Please forward this to let families know about this fun...Right in downtown Burlington
PAST CONTESTS IN THE NEWS
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Remembering a past contest:...Listen to National Public Radio's story about the 13th Annual Tongue Twister Contest!
The contest was March 2, 2013, and this segment aired nationally Sunday, March 3, 2013 on
Weekend Edition Sunday with host Rachel Martin. It will make you smile, and inspire you to attend next year!
click: NPR Covers Tongue Twister Contest at Logic Puzzle Museum!
(if the link doesn't work for you, try to Google NPR Tongue Twister Contest)
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2013 Burlington Standard Press' website myracinecounty newspaper carried a photo,too.
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Racine Journal Times story about 2014's contest! People who read the story called us and said they tried the
Tongue Twisters at home, and enjoyed the fun and Laughter! The puzzling fun extends way beyond
the day of the contest! Story by Lindsay Bullock
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Video of our past Tongue Twister Contest, by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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! In addition to the fun contest, learn a fun April Fool's joke & old fashion parlor trick
to try on others at home later, or the rest of the year, wherever you go.
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And... there are fun prizes here for the winners.
Travel Wisconsin invites you... a Most Unique Event
Door prizes for everyone (audience & contestants!) and another prize for the contest winners!
It's famous and fun
National television shows called about this in past years including the Game Show Network, Ellen Show, The Bonnie Hunt Show;
Podcasts interviews including conversations on the Road; radio interviews on Chicago stations & Milwaukee's WTMJ,
Canadian Radio Montreal, Quebec to Toronto on CJAD with Peter Anthony Holder talk show after midnight; Associated Press
Wire stories; on-site newspaper reports appeared in the Kenosha News, Racine Journal Times, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;
reports also in the Chicago Tribune, Minneapolis Twin Cities Pioneer Press, plus Family Fun Magazine and Real Simple Magazine have written about it
and we were on live on the Mike Jeffreys’ Breakfast Show airing from Canberra, Australia about the Tongue Twister Contest and the year round Logic Puzzle Museum visits!
so come have some fun here ... watch, listen, or enter.
... Allow time to visit the unusual gift shop, too. Buy yourself a Tongue Twister Poster to go.
Click here to see 2008 Video by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Mary Louise Schumacher
Click here for 2008 Podcast "Conversations on the Road" with Eric Model, Hidden America |
