Thursday, 26 August 2010

A bit of light relief - some real 'groaners' for lexophiles . . .


I've mentioned before that I've always been interested in language in one way or another. I know it's not Friday yet but I couldn't resist sharing these real 'groaners' forwarded by Fr Leo.

I challenge anyone to read the whole list without at least one tiny groan escaping from their lips!

You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish.

I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.

Police were called to a day care centre where a 3-yr-old was resisting a rest.

The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference.

To write with a broken pencil is pointless.


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.

The dead batteries were given out free of charge.

A dentist and 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.

A backward poet writes inverse.

That was part one, and more than enough for most people, I would imagine . . . real gluttons for punishment can scroll down for part two;


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 that 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.

Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.

When you've seen one shopping centre, you've seen a mall.

When she saw her first strands of grey 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

1 comment:

Dominic Mary said...

Mmmmm . . ! Ouch.