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Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label words. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 07, 2020

Paraprosdokians


Do you know what Paraprosdokians are? No? Well, they are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence is unexpected; Winston Churchill loved them:


1. Where there's a will, I want to be in it.
2. Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
3. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.
4. War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
5. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
6. They begin the evening news with 'Good Evening,' then proceed to Tell you why it isn't.
7. To steal ideas from someone is Plagiarism. To steal from many is called Research.
8. In filling in an application, where it says, 'In case of emergency, notify who: I put Doctor
9. I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
10. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the Street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they look Sexy.
11. Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a Successful man is usually another woman.
12. A clear conscience is the sign of a bad memory.
13. I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure.
14. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. Nor is there any future in it.
15. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
16. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than Standing in your garage makes you a car.
17. I 'm supposed to respect my elders, but it’s getting harder and harder for me to find one now.

Monday, April 13, 2020

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 bananas.
 
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. If you don't pay your exorcist, you can get repossessed.
 
8. With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.
 
9. Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft, and I'll show you A-flat miner.
 
10. When a clock is hungry, it goes back four seconds.
 
11. The guy who fell into an upholstery machine was fully recovered.
 
12. A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France resulted in Linoleum Blown apart.
 
13. You are stuck with your debt, if you can't budge it.
 
14. Local Area Network in Australia : The LAN down under.
 
15. He broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
 
16. A calendar's days are numbered.
 
17. A lot of money is tainted: 'Taint yours, and 'taint mine.
 
18. A boiled egg is hard to beat.
 
19. He had a photographic memory, which was never developed.
 
20. A plateau is a high form of flattery.
 
21. The short fortuneteller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.
 
22. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
 
23. When you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall.
 
24. If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine
 
25. When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought ? She'd dye.
 
26. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
 
27. Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.
 
28. Acupuncture: a jab well done.
 
29. Marathon runners with bad shoes suffer the agony of de feet.
 
Note: No trees were killed in the sending of this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

Washington Post winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest


Neologism is a newly coined word or expression - the winners are:


1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.

3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.
6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown.
7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle (n.), olive-flavoured mouthwash.
9. Flatulence (n.), emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), (back by popular demand): The belief that, when you die, your soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Circumvent (n.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.

The Washington Post's Style Invitational also asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

-Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

-Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

-Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

-Inoculatte (v): To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
-Osteopornosis (n): A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
- Karmageddon (n): It's like, when everybody is sending off all these Really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
- Glibido (v): All talk and no action.
- Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
- Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you're eating.
- Ignoranus (n): A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

Wednesday, May 03, 2017

These Words Should be in a Dictionary

ADULT
A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle.. 

BEAUTY PARLOUR 
A place where women curl up and dye. 

CHICKENS
The only animals you eat before they are born and after they are dead. 

COMMITTEE
A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours. 

DUST
Mud with the juice squeezed out. 

EGOTIST
Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation. 

HANDKERCHIEF
Cold Storage. 

INFLATION 
Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.

MOSQUITO
An insect that makes you like flies better. 

RAISIN
A grape with sunburn. 

SECRET
Something you tell to one person at a time. 

SKELETON
A person with the meat scraped off. 

TOOTHACHE
The pain that drives you to extraction. 

TOMORROW
One of the greatest labour saving devices of today. 

YAWN
An honest opinion openly expressed. 

And MY Personal Favourite!! 

WRINKLES
Something other people have, similar to my character lines.