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Lexophile
"Lexophile" is a word used to describe those that 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
A competition to see who can come up with the best lexophiles is held every year. This year's winning submission is posted at the very end.
-- When fish are in schools, they sometimes take
-- A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.
-- When the smog lifts in Los Angeles U.C.L.A.
-- The batteries 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
-- A boiled egg is hard to beat.
-- When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.
-- 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.
-- When a clock is hungry it goes back four
-- The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine is now fully recovered.
-- He had a photographic memory which was never 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
AND THE CREAM OF THE TWISTED CROP:
-- Those who get too big for their pants will be totally exposed in the end.
ALWAYS LAUGH WHEN YOU CAN - - IT'S CHEAP MEDICINE!
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Re: lexophile
Can't imagine what took me so long to twig to this, but the phrases here have nothing to do with lexophile. If a lexophile is a person who loves words, then what does a list of puns have to do with said person?
I may love plays on words, and I love words in general; but what does that make me?
I may love plays on words, and I love words in general; but what does that make me?
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.
Re: lexophile
Yup, that's why i quit this boardCan't imagine what took me so long to twig to this, but the phrases here have nothing to do with lexophile. If a lexophile is a person who loves words, then what does a list of puns have to do with said person?
I may love plays on words, and I love words in general; but what does that make me?
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