Delicious Words for Lexophiles

Love words? Then you're a lexophile. Here are some words and phrases for you and your young lexophiles to savor and digest.

• I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
• Police were called to a day care where a 3-yr-old was resisting a rest.
• Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.
• The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference.
• To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
• When fish are in schools, they sometimes take debate.
• The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
• A thief who stole a calendar got 12 months.
• A thief fell & broke his leg in wet cement. He became a hardened criminal.
• When the smog lifts in Los Angeles , U.C.L.A.
• The dead batteries were given out free of charge.
• A dentist & a manicurist fought tooth and nail.
• A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.
• A will is a dead giveaway.
• Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. (My favorite!)
• A backward poet writes inverse.
• In a democracy it's your vote that counts; in feudalism, it's your Count that votes.
• A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.
• If you don't pay your exorcist you can get repossessed.
• Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft & I'll show you A-flat miner.
• The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.
• A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France , resulted in Linoleum Blownapart.
• You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
• A calendar's days are numbered.
• A lot of money is tainted: 'Taint yours, and 'taint mine.
• A boiled egg is hard to beat.
• He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
• When you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall.
• When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye.
• Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
• Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.
• Acupuncture: a jab well done.

(Just a note. This list is not my original work but something I received in an email. I suspect it's been floating around in cyberspace for some time but if you know its author, do let me know.)

P.S. Mother's Day is May 11th. To receive a collection of quotations about mothers, send an email to RetiredHSMom (at) gmail (dot) com (formatted the usual email way). I'll send it to you via an attached PDF file, no cost, no obligation.