Fun With Words

As teachers we know the value and importance of words.  Words can make us smile.  Words can offer comfort.  Words can hurt.  Hopefully these words will bring a smile to your face and maybe even an occasional groan.  These are courtesy of john Usalis, a reporter in our local Sunday paper.  I have used his column for other posts and thought I would share these thoughts today and next week.

John listed 20 items that he dedicates to “lexophiles” (lovers of words).  Here are the first 10.  Enjoy.

1.  A bicycle can’t stand alone; it is two tired.
2. A will is a dead giveaway.
3. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
4. A backward poet writes inverse.
5. In a democracy it is your vote that counts; in feudalism, it is your Count that votes.
6. A chicken crossing the road: Poultry in motion.
7. If you don’t pay your exorcist, you can get repossessed.
8. With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.
9. Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I’ll show you A-flat miner.
10. When a clock is very hungry, it goes back four seconds.

Just in case these are too much to bear in one reading, I will save the next 10 for next week’s post.