For the Lexophiles

FOR ALL YOU LEXOPHILES ( LOVERS OF WORDS )

>1. A bicycle can't stand alone because it is two-tired.
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>2. What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead giveaway).
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>3. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
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>4. A backward poet writes inverse.
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>5. In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your
>count that votes.
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>6. She had a boyfriend with a wooden leg, but broke it off.
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>7. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
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>8. If you don't pay your exorcist you get repossessed.
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>9. With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.
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>10. Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I'll show you A-flat
>minor.
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>11. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
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>12. The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.
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>13. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum
>Blownapart.
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>14. You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
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>15. Local Area Network in Australia: the LAN down under.
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>16. He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
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>17. Every calendar's days are numbered.
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>18. A lot of money is tainted. 'Taint yours and 'taint mine.
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>19. A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
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>20. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
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>21. A plateau is a high form of flattery.
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>22. The short fortuneteller who escaped from prison was a small medium
>at large.
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>23. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
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>24. When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.
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>25. Those who jump off a Paris bridge are in Seine.
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>26. When an actress saw her first strands of gray hair she thought she'd
>dye..
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>27. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
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>28. Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.
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>29. Acupuncture is a jab well done.
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>30. Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of defeat

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