A competition to see who can come up with the best Lexphillie held in Dubuque, Iowa.

Lexophile" is a term used to describe those who are clever with words, such as "you can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish" or "to write with a broken pencil is pointless.

The year's winning submissions are........

*A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.*

*The batteries were given out free of charge.*

*A dentist and a manicurist married.*
*They fought tooth and nail.*

*A will is a dead giveaway.*

*A boiled egg is hard to beat.*

*Police were called to the daycare centre, where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.*

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

*A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.*

*The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine is now fully re-covered.*

*He had a photographic memory which was never developed.*

*When she saw her first strands of grey hair, she thought she'd dye.*

*Acupuncture is a job well done. That's the point of it.*

*FOR THOSE PEOPLE WITH A LITERARY SENSE OF HUMOR*

MOCTEN

 

In January 1993, EUNET launched the first online news website, MOCTEN.com (stands for Music Opinions Culture Technology Economy News), led by Eric Bach, Teus Hagen, Peter Collinson, Julf Helsingius, Daniel Karrenberg,...  Read more

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