FOR LEXOPHILES (LOVERS OF WORDS):

[Marji Morris <mmorris@salemschools.com>]

You may have seen this before, but I love it! My favorite is #26.
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FOR LEXOPHILES (LOVERS OF WORDS):

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. In a democracy it's your vote that counts;
   in feudalism, it's your Count that votes.

6. A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.

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

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


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

10. The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.


11. A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France resulted in Linoleum
Blownapart.

12. You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.

13. Local Area Network in Australia : The LAN down under.

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

15. A calendar's days are numbered.

16. A lot of money is tainted: 'Taint yours, and 'taint mine.

17. A boiled egg is hard to beat.

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

19. A plateau is a high form of flattery.

20. The short fortuneteller who escaped from prison:  a small medium
at large.

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


22. When you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall.

23. If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine.


24. When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye.

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


26. Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.

27. Acupuncture: a jab well done.

28. Marathon runners with bad shoes suffer the agony of de feet.

Note: No trees were killed in the sending


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number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.