Last week was National Library Week, and one of my favorite online comics celebrated by re-running this strip with library-related Tom Swifties. Can you think of others?

There's a long thread already running in Wordplay.

Ah yes, of course, Arnie - thanks!

They're so fun, though, aren't they?

"Here, let me put your arm back on," Tom rejoined.

"This book has fallen apart," Caterwauller said spinelessly.

I just learned that a Norwegian writer developed the international book cataloging system: Henrik Isbn. He lived in a Doll's House with a compulsive eater named Hedda Gobbler. Her brother with urinary problems, Pee-er Gynt, was An Enemy of The People for having goosed The Wild Duck.

"There's a linguist among us!" Tom said Goofyly.

"Oo ay Eiffel Tower?" Tom asked gauchely.
"This way sir," the gendarme pointed adroitly.

"Yes, I am left-handed," said Tom, sinisterly.

"Where is the list of goods I shipped," Tom said manifestly.

"Where's the nearest Hobby Lobby," Thomasina said craftily.

"I'll show you exactly what porn I'm talking about, " the senator said explicitly.

"I had sex with those twins," said Tom, intuitively.

Oh, you are bad, Proof!

"I know a doctor who can sew your hand back on," was Tom's rejoinder.

"Be careful at the hockey game," said Tom, puckishly.

"Sorry I hit your car with my hatchet," said Tom, accidentally.

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"Be careful at the hockey game," said Tom, puckishly.

Ford Motor Corporation now makes a car just for hockey players. http://www.google.com/imgres?i...0CCIQ9QEwAA&dur=3920

"Have a heart," Tom said bleedingly!

"I need cardiac surgery" said Tom, open heartedly.

"If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times, don't wolf your food," Tom said doggedly.

"My, what big teeth yu have, grandma,' said 7-year-old (soon to be 8) Red Riding Hood.

"How did my foot get up my butt?" asked Tom, contortedly.

"help me sew this meat so we can cook it," Tom lambasted.