"Ouch! I'm tangled up in barbed wire!" yelped Tom indefensibly.
"You're the most callipygous woman here," Tom said, with rewarding anastrophy. "I'm a virgin," blushed Tomasina, inscrutably embarassed. "No for long," said Tom, barely lying.
quote:"Were those excruciating adverbial puns known as Tom Swifties invented by the author of Gulliver's Travels?" asks Tom swiftly. "No, they were originated by Edward Stratemeyer in a series of strip cartoons about a character called Tom Swift. That was in the USA in the 1920s" Ed states decadently.
"What we need is a player who can hit 60 home runs a year!" the coach said ruthlessly.
(explanation for non-baseball enthusiasts: Babe Ruth was famous for, among other things, hitting 60 home runs in one year, a record which only recently fell.)
"I'm somewhat ambivalent about my feelings concerning homosexuality," said Tom, half in earnest.
(And I add, at the risk of sounding like Jerry Seinfeld, not that there's anything wrong with that!)
A sub-theme occurred to me while wending my way home from work.
"I live in London," said arnie brittlely. "Paris, here," responded Safi frankly. "No one from Munich?" asked Tom, with Hunnied words. "And surely not from Copenhagen?" asked Tom disdainfully. "We really need an attractive Italian guy," observed museamuse ro(me)manticly.
Quote: "Yesterday was my due date", said Tomasina, expectantly. A sad situation, but better than: "My period was due yesterday," said Tomasina, belatedly.
Quote: "I love doing little projects," Tom said, craftily. "Especially on my computer," Tom said, bitterly and bytingly.
"It's never too late to add one more "swifty," said Tom, nostalgically.
When my friend Mike Sweet was principal of a certain high school, that situation inspired this ..... "It's not the students or the teachers that are most important in this institution. It's the Principal of the thing," said Mike, Sweetly.
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