For Lovers of Words

Thanks to my friend Mary for sending this along. Hope you enjoy:


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. 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.>> 1
10. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.>>
11. The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.>>
12. A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France resulted in Linoleum> Blownapart.>>
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.