Tuesday 29 June 2010

For Lexophiles (Lovers of Words)..

Lexophiles

1. A bicycle can't stand alone;
it is two tired.
.
2. A will is a dead giveaway.
.
3. Time flies like an arrow;
fruit flies like a banana.
.
4. A backward poet writes inverse.
.
5. A chicken crossing the road:
poultry in motion.
.
6. When a clock is hungry it goes back
four seconds.
.
7. The guy who fell onto an upholstery
machine was fully recovered.
.
8. You are stuck with your debt
if you can't budge it.
.
9. He broke into song because he
couldn't find the key.
.
10. A calendar's days are numbered.
.
11. A boiled egg is hard to beat.
.
12. He had a photographic memory
which was never developed.
.
13. The short fortune-teller who escaped
from prison: a small medium at large.
.
14. Those who get too big for their
britches will be exposed in the end.
.
15. When you've seen one shopping
centre you've seen a mall.
.
16. If you jump off a Paris bridge,
you are in Seine.
.
17. When she saw her first strands of grey
hair, she thought she'd dye.
.
18. Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.
.
19. Acupuncture: a jab well done.
.
20. Marathon runners with bad shoes
suffer the agony of de feet.
.
21. The roundest knight at king Arthur's
round table was Sir Cumference.
He acquired his size from too much pi.
.
22. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan
island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
.
23. She was only a whisky maker,
but he loved her still.
.
24. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from
algebra class because it was a weapon
of math disruption.
.
25. No matter how much you push the envelope,
it'll still be stationery.
.
26. A dog gave birth to puppies near the
road and was cited for littering.
.
27. Two silk worms had a race.
They ended up in a tie.
.
28. A hole has been found in the nudist
camp wall. The police are looking into it.
.
29. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
.
30. I wondered why the baseball
kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
.
31. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab
centre said: 'Keep off the Grass.'
.
32. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital.
When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse
said, 'No change yet.'

2 comments:

Sid said...

Everyone's a gem!

Vivienne said...

Hi Sid,

Thanks! I hope you're able to come along to the next AGM on Wed. It seems ages since I saw you, apart from that fleeting glimpse I caught of you on the A68 some weeks ago!

Lots of love to you and all your family,

Vivienne xxx