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| 1125.1 | There are many examples from the psycholinguistic lit'rature... | LJSRV2::KALIKOW | SERVE<a href="SURF_GLOBAL">LOCAL</a> | Wed Dec 21 1994 04:46 | 9 |
| "Time flies like an arrow"
the next, when the last two words are run together when spoken quickly:
"They're looking for a light housekeeper."
Those who have studied Chomsky & Lenneberg & their disciples more
recently than I can surely supply more...
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| 1125.2 | | PASTIS::MONAHAN | humanity is a trojan horse | Wed Dec 21 1994 05:42 | 9 |
| I thought it was "Fruit flies like a banana" which has one meaning
in the context of the winged seeds of the sycamore tree, and a
different meaning in the context of the dietary preferences of insects.
There was a young man from from Hong Kong
Who cleared the whole place with his song.
It wasn't the words
That frightened the birds
But the horrible double ontong!
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| 1125.3 | An example of good taste | STKAI1::T_ANDERSSON | The Tank Engine | Wed Dec 21 1994 06:00 | 5 |
| The following line from "The Silence of the Lambs" is well known:
"I'd love to have you for dinner sometime."
Hannibal "the cannibal" Lecter to Agent Starling (I think).
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| 1125.4 | You thought it couldn't get any worse... | PEKING::SULLIVAND | Free the Heinz 57 ! | Wed Dec 21 1994 06:06 | 18 |
| I'm reminded of the science fiction story about the idealistic aliens
who produce a book called "How to serve man"...
Unfortunately it's a cookbook...
And then, as one of my colleagues once remarked
"Tits like coconuts!!"
But sparrows will eat anything!
Plenty of shops here in England have "Family Butcher" on them...
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| 1125.5 | | NOTIME::SACKS | Gerald Sacks ZKO2-3/N30 DTN:381-2085 | Wed Dec 21 1994 07:23 | 7 |
| > "He is pressing his suit"
>
> can mean that a) he is ironing the creases out of (or into) his
> apparel, or that b) he is attempting to become better acquainted with a
> young lady, with a view to matrimony.
c) he is a plaintiff.
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| 1125.6 | He broke the window... | PMRV70::BEAIRSTO | | Tue Dec 27 1994 12:47 | 2 |
| ...with his little sister
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| 1125.7 | | NOVA::FISHER | now |a|n|a|l|o|g| | Wed Dec 28 1994 00:05 | 8 |
| I chuckle everytime I hear the Cumberland Farms ad that tells you
that they are a good place to stop and get a cup of coffee on the way
to work. "the stop that keeps you going."
Given the diuretic nature of caffeine, I chuckle at the double meaning.
Of course, if you also buy gas at CF, there's a triple meaning.
ed
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| 1125.8 | | JRDV04::DIAMOND | segmentation fault (california dumped) | Sun Jan 08 1995 17:34 | 7 |
| Title on a recent newspaper article:
"Missing ship radios in safe"
After reading the article, I figured out that "radios" and "safe"
weren't being used as nouns, and it wasn't attributing the ship's
disappearance to negligent actions by the crew.
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| 1125.9 | I boggle, you boggle, he boggles... | PEKING::SULLIVAND | Not gauche, just sinister | Mon Jan 09 1995 01:58 | 8 |
| Sounds like the classic
"Ike flies back to front"
or a headline I saw here in England a few years ago
"Heath appeals to Amin".
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| 1125.10 | There was one in the Wellesley (MA) paper over the weekend... | LJSRV2::KALIKOW | Pentium: Intel's Blew-Chip Special | Mon Jan 09 1995 03:36 | 10 |
| ... that reminded me of West Side Story -- "Hey honey, do they have a
gang problem in Wellesley?"
WELLESLEY DEATH SPURS CALL TO SEAL TRACKS
Turns out that there's been one too many person killed as they try to
cross the railroad tracks, and community activists, not gang-bangers,
are trying to alleviate the problem by limiting access to the right-
of-way... :-)
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