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(@chaorcute)
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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 fies like a bannana.
4. A backward poet writes inverse.
5. In a Democracy, it's your vote that counts; in Feudalism, it's your Count that votes.
6. A chicken crossing the road, is poultry in motion.
7. If you don't pay your exorcist, you can get repossessed.
8. With her new 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 hungry, it goes back four seconds.
11. The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.
12. A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France, resulting the death of Linoleum Blownapart.
13. You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
14. Local Area Network is Australia: The LAN down under.
15. He broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
16. A calendar's days are numbered.
17. A lot of money is tainted: 'Taint yours, and 'taint mine.
18. A boiled egg is hard to beat.
19. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
20. A plateau is a high form of flattery.
21. Did you hear about the midget fortune teller that escaped from prison? She is now a small medium at large.
22. Those who get too big for their britches, will be exposed in the end.
23. When you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall.
24. If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine.
25. When she saw her first strands of grey hair, she thought she'd dye.
26. Bakers trade bread recepies on a knead to know basis.
27. Acupuncture: a jab well done.
28. Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.
29. Marathon runners with bad shoes suffer the agony of defeet.

Anybody know any others?

 
(@nuchtos)
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You sir are a terrible, terrible person and deserved to be punished.

 
(@antipode)
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Sorry, but between growing up with my father and reading through Dominic Deegan, I have rendered myself immune to puns.

 
(@neoremington373)
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I find all these terribly amusing because I have love for stupid puns.

 
(@psxphile_1722027877)
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Lexophile


 
(@chaorcute)
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No, Psxphile. Your name does rhyme with it, but it has nothing to do with Lexophiles. You can find out more about Lexophilia here.

 
(@deckman92)
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i would like to know who decided that "lexophile" is a word

if it's supposed to mean "a lover of words and language", i don't see why "linguaphile" isn't good enough

 
(@antipode)
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You can find out more about Lexophilia here.


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The page you were trying to get to seems to have moved... or you got the URL wrong... or something. Perhaps it's even our fault. (If so, please let us know so we can fix it.)

But don't worry, it's just a bump on that information superhighway -- the page you seek is here somewhere. Give our search engine a try, and you should be able to find what you are looking for.


 
(@nuchtos)
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"But don't worry, it's just a bump on that information superhighway"

Holy crap I've woken up in 1996.

 
(@deckman92)
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it's only broken because he forgot the l

 
(@xagarath-ankor)
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Some of those are far better than others.

 
(@byakko-no-sonikku)
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Lessee, off the top of my head...

"After he bought a large ship, the investor went to accrue a crew."
"The Danube is turning yellow because you're a-peein' in it."

 
(@aeva1688)
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That was cool. Stupid puns are great. Please, do more.

 
(@byakko-no-sonikku)
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Change is good, but $20 bills are better.
The rocking ship made the seasick accountant lose his balance.
King Acorn began searching for a new chair once he found out that his wife had throne out his old one.
After working through the grueling lunch rush, the hot-dog stand operator mustard his strength to make one last dog.
Thanks to a successful sting operation in a French bee-keeper's yard, the honey thieves were captured.
A Korean band will be playing real Seoul music at the Johnson's' party tonight.
The programmer, after years of staring at a computer screen, couldn't C too well.

*Gets shot* Dx

 
(@dirk-amoeba)
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Wouldn't a "lexophile" be a "lover of the law"?

A HINT (Select To Read): the answer to my question is: "Yes, Dirk. Yes, it would."

 
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