> > HUMOUR FOR LEXOPHILES > (LOVERS OF WORDS): > > I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. > Then it hit me. > > Police were called to a day care where > a three-year-old was resisting a rest. > > Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was > cut off? > He's all right now. > > > The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table > was Sir Cumference. > > The butcher backed up into the meat grinder > and got a little behind in his work. > > To write with a broken pencil is pointless. > > When fish are in schools > they sometimes take debate. > > The short fortune teller who escaped from prison > was a small medium at large. > > A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months. > > A thief fell and broke his leg in wet cement. > He became a hardened criminal. > > Thieves who steal corn from a garden > could be charged with stalking. > > We'll never run out of math teachers > because they always multiply. > > When the smog lifts in Los Angeles , U.C.L.A. > > > The math professor went crazy with the blackboard. > > He did a number on it. > > > The professor discovered > that her theory of earthquakes > was on shaky ground. > > The dead batteries > were given out free of charge. > > If you take a laptop computer > for a run you could jog your memory. > > A dentist and a manicurist > fought tooth and nail. > > A bicycle can't stand alone; > it is two tired. > > A will is a dead giveaway. > > Time flies like an arrow; > fruit flies like a banana. > > A backward poet writes inverse. > > In a democracy it's your vote that counts; > in feudalism, it's your Count that votes. > > Acupuncture: > a jab well done. >