| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
In one of _NEW YORK_ magazines competitive features, edited by Mary
Ann Madden, readers were asked for the punned version of a well-know
name in a famous phrase. Here are some contributions:
But soft, what light through John Deere window brreaks?
__Ellen Burr
Rich Little piggy went to mardet... --Jacob Metzger
Climb every Malcolm/Forbes every stream... __Adrienne E. Gusoff
Ivan II be alone. --Paul Chechanover
Four-score Ann Sothern years ago... --Paul Giordano
The quick Redd Foxx jumps over the lazy dog. __scott porter
Is Disraeli Necessary? --J. M. Brown
Hickory Zachary SCott.... --Candy Wolfson
I wouldn't wish it on Mae West Enemy.--Rosalie and Lucian Grillo
Any more out there in Notesville
how about...
McMahon the life boats!!
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| 412.1 | slight wandering | LEZAH::BOBBITT | face piles of trials with smiles | Fri Sep 18 1987 15:49 | 14 |
along the same lines (but not too far off)
is the other alternative - names and phrases that sound like the
real thing, but are actually other phrases entirely...
one fairy tale I have heard is: Ladle Rat Rotten Hut
(I'll try to find a copy if I can)
(a.k.a. little red riding hood)
and a famous mentioned in the prev?
Robert Loosed His Evensong
-Jody
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| 412.2 | I read this one a lung term ego! | HAVOC::SWIFT | Fri Oct 16 1987 10:14 | 2 | |
FYI--- Ladle Rat Rotten Hut, Center Alley and other furry tells came
from a very silly book called Anguish Languish (English Language)
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