Divine Write
09-07-2003, 01:34 AM
I'm not sure if these fit in this forum or not/ they are some phrases that consist wordplay and I thought they could help people understand wordplay more to help them evolve with punches and what not
1. A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is "two-tired".
2. What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead giveaway).
3. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
4. A backwards poet writes "inverse".
5. In democracy, it's your vote that counts. In feudalism, it's your Count that votes.
6. She had a boyfriend with a wooden leg, but broke it off.
7. A chicken crossing the road is "poultry" in motion.
8. If you don't pay your exorcist, you get "repossessed".
9. With her marriage, she got a new name and "a dress".
10. Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft, and I'll show you "A-flat minor".
11. When a clock is hungry, it goes "back four seconds".
12. The man, who fell into an upholstery machine, is fully "recovered".
13. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in "Linoleum Blownapart".
14. You feel stuck with your debt if you can't "budge it".
15. Local Area Network in Australia: the LAN down under.
16. He often "broke into song" because he couldn't "find the key".
17. Every calendar's days are numbered.
18. A lot of money is tainted. It taint yours and it taint mine.
19. A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
20. He had a photographic memory that was never developed.
21. A plateau is a high form of flattery.
22. The short fortune-teller, who escaped from prison, was a small medium at large.
23. Those, who get too big for their britches, will be exposed in the end.
24. Once you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall.
25. Those, who jump off a Paris bridge, are in Seine.
26. When an actress saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd "dye".
27. Bakers trade bread recipes on a "knead" to know basis.
28. Santa's helpers are "subordinate clauses".
29. Acupuncture is a "jab" well done.
30. Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the "agony of defeat".
there are some and I hope these help and that this belongs here if not then I appologiuse
1. A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is "two-tired".
2. What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead giveaway).
3. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
4. A backwards poet writes "inverse".
5. In democracy, it's your vote that counts. In feudalism, it's your Count that votes.
6. She had a boyfriend with a wooden leg, but broke it off.
7. A chicken crossing the road is "poultry" in motion.
8. If you don't pay your exorcist, you get "repossessed".
9. With her marriage, she got a new name and "a dress".
10. Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft, and I'll show you "A-flat minor".
11. When a clock is hungry, it goes "back four seconds".
12. The man, who fell into an upholstery machine, is fully "recovered".
13. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in "Linoleum Blownapart".
14. You feel stuck with your debt if you can't "budge it".
15. Local Area Network in Australia: the LAN down under.
16. He often "broke into song" because he couldn't "find the key".
17. Every calendar's days are numbered.
18. A lot of money is tainted. It taint yours and it taint mine.
19. A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
20. He had a photographic memory that was never developed.
21. A plateau is a high form of flattery.
22. The short fortune-teller, who escaped from prison, was a small medium at large.
23. Those, who get too big for their britches, will be exposed in the end.
24. Once you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall.
25. Those, who jump off a Paris bridge, are in Seine.
26. When an actress saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd "dye".
27. Bakers trade bread recipes on a "knead" to know basis.
28. Santa's helpers are "subordinate clauses".
29. Acupuncture is a "jab" well done.
30. Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the "agony of defeat".
there are some and I hope these help and that this belongs here if not then I appologiuse