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    A list for lexophiles!

    Some have been posted before...

    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

    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 fortune teller 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.



    And might I add...

    It is better to have loved a short woman than never to have loved a tall.
    Yes, I am pedantic about spelling and grammar so get used to it!

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    Not a busy day then?....Clever stuff and funny! (lol) Cheers John.

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    I must spread some around...yah de yah de yah....

    Clever stuff
    Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldrider View Post
    Not a busy day then?....Clever stuff and funny! (lol) Cheers John.
    Damned busy actually, but a mate sent me that by email and I thought it was quite funny!
    Yes, I am pedantic about spelling and grammar so get used to it!

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    My grandad was quite annoying like that, he'd point out the window and say:
    "Thats the dead-center of town there"
    We would all look out the window in time to see a graveyard and hear him say
    "See, people are Dieing to get in"

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