Bart King's Summer Boredom Busters How to Whistle Loudly I am assuming that you are able to do the usual "pursed lips"whistle. But can you do the "piercing, get-everybody's attention"whistle that you have to put your fingers in your mouth for? If not,read on. (And remember, you will have to practice and experimentto get this right.) Wash your hands. Your fingers will soon be in your mouth. To do this whistle, your lips will be tight and tucked in, andthey have to cover your teeth. Keep your tongue flat as you bring it right to the edge of yourbottom lip. Get ready to shove some fingers in your mouth. You have twochoices, and I will explain both. Just don't use your toes for this. Itcould result in instant death! Method A Try using your thumb and the index finger (first finger) on onehand. (You could also use one finger from each hand.) Put these fingersinto the edges of your mouth and push out so that your lips stretch.Remember your tongue? Bring the tip so that it just about touches thebottom of your mouth just behind your teeth. You want air coming out ofyour mouth to get aimed at that spot of your mouth. Blow gently. As youdo this, try to adjust your fingers and mouth to find the perfectposition. Eventually, you will find the spot. At first, you will havenothing, then a low whistle, and then something that could wake up asleeping buffalo! Method B Put your two pinkie fingers into the edges of your mouth. Let thefingertips touch inside your mouth so that they form a wide V shape.Shove the tip of your V under the tip of your tongue and roll thetongue tip up and over. Your upper lip should now be touching the firstknuckle of your pinkies. Don't let the tongue tip touch the roof of your mouth. If you lookedin the mirror, you would see a triangle between your pinkies and yourlower lip. You want to blow air over your tongue and into that space.It won't work right away, so experiment and try different angles andlip or tongue positions. You can do it! It's easier than juggling orplaying poker, so if you can do those things, you can do this! Tongue Twisters Rule! Even though everyone knows what a "word" is, NOT everyone can saywords correctly. If you put certain words that sound similar together,you get a tongue twister: Words that can twistyour tongue into a knot. For example, here are 4 words. Say allof the words quickly several times in a row. Willy's real rear wheel It's not as easy as it looks, is it? A lot of the following tonguetwisters don't make much sense, but they sound pretty neat. Challengeyour tongue with them! Then challenge your friends' tongues with them!(On the other hand, never mind that; it sounds kind of gross.) Buy a box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits, and a bigbiscuit mixer I wish to wash my wicked wristwatch. Rubber baby buggy bumpers. To begin to toboggan first, buy a toboggan. But do not buytoo big a toboggan! Too big a toboggan is too big a toboggan to buy tobegin to toboggan. Silly sheep weep and sleep. A Tudor who tooted the flute tried to tutor two tooters totoot. Said the two to the tutor, "Is it harder to toot or to tutor twotooters to toot?" Larry Hurley, a burly squirrel hurler, hurled a furrysquirrel through a curly grill. Excerpted from The Big Book of Boy Stuff by Bart King All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.