[Lexicog] FOR ALL YOU LEXOPHILES (LOVERS OF WORDS)]

[Dr. Hayim Y. Sheynin]

Fritz,

Only some of them are puns. I like especially 13, 24 and 25, when the
words are composite.
For #1 I would suggest a variant: I am too tired the bicycle because it
is two tired. Of cause we lose juxtaposition "alone"-"two-tired".

Best wishes,
Hayim

-----Original Message-----
From: Fritz Goerling [mailto:Fritz_Goerling at sil.org]
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 4:04 AM
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Subject: [Lexicog] FOR ALL YOU LEXOPHILES (LOVERS OF WORDS)]


For All You Lexophiles (Lovers of words)

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

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

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

4. A backward poet writes inverse.

5. In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism,
     it's your count that votes.

7. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.

8. If you don't pay your exorcist you get repossessed.

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

10. Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I'll
      show you A-flat minor.

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

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

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

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

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

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

17. Every calendar's days are numbered.

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

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

20. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.

21. A plateau is a high form of flattery.

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

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

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

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

26. When an actress saw her first strands of gray hair she
       thought she'd dye.

27. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.

28. Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.

29. Acupuncture is a jab well done.

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


OK, t'is kinda pun-ny! ;-)













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