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LEXOPHILIA
"Lexophile" describes those who have a love for words, such as "you can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish",
or "To write with a broken pencil is pointless."
An annual competition is held by the New York Times to see who can create the best original lexophile.
No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
If you don't pay your exorcist you can get repossessed.
I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. I just can't put it down.
I didn't like my beard at first. Then it grew on me.
Did you hear about the crossed-eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn't control her pupils?
When you get a bladder infection, urine trouble.
When chemists die, they barium.
I stayed up all night to see where the sun went, and then it dawned on me.
I changed my iPod's name to Titanic. It's syncing now.
England has no kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool
Haunted French pancakes give me the crepes.
This girl today said she recognized me from the Vegetarians Club, but I'd swear I've never met herbivore
I know a guy who's addicted to drinking brake fluid, but he says he can stop any time.
A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.
When the smog lifts in Los Angeles U.C.L.A.
I got some batteries that were given out free of charge.
A dentist and a manicurist married. They fought tooth and nail
A will is a dead giveaway.
With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.
Police were summoned to a daycare center where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
Did you hear about the fellow whose entire left side was cut off? He's all right now.
A bicycle can't stand alone; it's just two tired.
The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine last week is now fully recovered.
He had a photographic memory but it was never fully developed.
When she saw her first strands of gray hair she thought she'd dye.
Acupuncture is a jab well done. That's the point of it.
Those who get too big for their pants will be totally exposed in the end.
Ohiogal
(32,036 posts)burrowowl
(17,642 posts)Squinch
(50,989 posts)They make me think of Pinboy!
Every time I see the potential for a play on words...
I always think "Oh! He would have had fun with this!"
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)Maybe it's a recurring contest, i don't know.
I love these and plan to share...
Leith
(7,813 posts)I love puns.
Canoe52
(2,949 posts)Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)I said, "O.K. 40."
Iggo
(47,563 posts)"Why don't you just add one more bean, Gran?"
"'Cause then they'd be forty." With her thick Irish accent, it sounded like "far-tee."
She was a weirdo.
FakeNoose
(32,706 posts)"I see," said the blind man, as he picked up his hammer and saw.
lastlib
(23,266 posts)...so he put a chicken-wire cage around it. Then some birds got into it, and he had to put an awning over it. So many people asked him about it that he finally put a sign on it:
"This is the awning on the cage of Asparagus."......
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If you don't get it, maybe think "Fifth Dimension".........?
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central scrutinizer
(11,659 posts)pho queue
(You have to pronounce pho correctly: fa)