MORE LEXOPHILES

MORE LEXOPHILES

A lexophile describes a love for sentences such as, "You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish,"  and, "To write with a broken pencil is pointless."

An annual competition is held by the 'New York Times' to determine who can create the best original lexophile. 

Here are 12 more submissions:

◾Did you hear about the fellow whose entire left side was cut off?  He's all right now. 

◾A bicycle can't stand alone; it's just two tired. 

◾The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine last week is now fully recovered. 

◾He had a photographic memory but it was never fully developed. 

◾When she saw her first strands of gray hair she thought she'd dye. 

◾Acupuncture is a jab well done.  That's the point of it. 

◾I didn't like my beard at first.  Then it grew on me. 

◾Did you hear about the crossed-eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn't control her pupils?

◾When you get a bladder infection, urine trouble. 

◾When chemists die, they barium. 

◾I stayed up all night to see where the sun went, and then it dawned on me.

◾I'm reading a book about anti-gravity.  I just can't put it down.