Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Humor for Lexophiles

A friend sent most of the following to me via email. I haven't researched yet to find out where this particular collection originated, but I thought I'd share it with my reader anyway. Rabbit week continues.


HUMOR FOR LEXOPHILES

(LOVERS OF WORDS)

1. I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.


2. Police were called to a daycare where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.


3. Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.


4. To write with a broken pencil is pointless.


5. The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.


6. A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.


7. When the smog lifts in Los Angeles, U.C.L.A.


8. A rabbit that attacks me is hare today and gone tomorrow.


9. The math professor went crazy with the blackboard. He did a number on it!


10. The professor discovered that her theory of earthquakes was on shaky ground.


11. The dead batteries were given out free of charge.


12. A dentist and a manicurist fought tooth and nail.


13. A bicycle can't stand alone; it is just two-tired.


14. A will is a dead giveaway.


15. A backward poet writes inverse.


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


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


18. A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France, resulted in linoleum blownapart.


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


20. A calendar's days are numbered.


21. A boiled egg is hard to beat.


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


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


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


25. Acupuncture: a jab well done.

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