Wednesday, January 26, 2005

For the Lexophiles

Beware: there are some real groaners! ; )

  • A bicycle can't stand alone because it is two-tired.

  • What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead giveaway).

  • Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

  • A backward poet writes inverse.

  • In democracy, it's your vote that counts; in feudalism, it's your count that votes

  • A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.

  • With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.

  • Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I'll show you A-flat minor.

  • When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.

  • The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.

  • A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.

  • You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.

  • Local Area Network in Australia: the LAN down under.

  • He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key.

  • Every calendar's days are numbered.

  • A lot of money is tainted. 'Taint yours and 'taint mine.

  • A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.

  • He had a photographic memory which was never developed.

  • A plateau is a high form of flattery.

  • The short fortuneteller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

  • Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.

  • When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.

  • Those who jump off a Paris bridge are in Seine.

  • When an actress saw her first strands of grey hair she thought she'd dye.

  • Bakers trade bread secrets on a knead to know basis.

  • Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.

  • Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of defeat.


[You can't say I didn't warn you!]

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