For Scrablers and other lexophiles


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.


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.


With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.


Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and i'll show you a-flat miner.


When a clock is hungry, it goes back four seconds.


The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.


A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in france, resulting in linoleum blown apart.


Local area network in australia: the lan down under.


He broke into song because he couldn't find the key.


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.


A plateau is a high form of flattery.


The short fortuneteller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.


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


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


If you jump off a paris bridge, you are in seine.


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.


-Richard danielsen


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