FLOPPY FRIDAY
Do you ever get the feeling the Bush administration is fighting the war on terrorism by
bobbing for apples? I do -- and not because it's Halloween. But never mind. It's also floppy
Friday, time to forget our troubles. Here's some entertaining word-play, aka bad puns, making the
rounds of the Web in various places like the Malapropria page of The Mailbox News or the
If you don't pay your exorcist, you get repossessed.
You feel stuck with your debt
when you can't budge it.
The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.
A backward poet writes inverse.
A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two
tired.
Those who jump off a bridge in Paris are in Seine.
When two egotists meet, it's
an I for an I.
A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.
A man needs a
mistress just to break the monogamy.
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
Shotgun
wedding: A case of wife or death.
In democracy your vote counts. In feudalism your count
votes.
She was engaged to a boyfriend with a wooden leg but broke it off.
Dancing
cheek-to-cheek is really a form of floor play.
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
Condoms should be used on every conceivable occasion.
What's the definition of a
will? (It's a dead giveaway.)
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
He
often broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
Every calendar's days are numbered.
A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
He had a photographic memory that was
never developed.
A plateau is a high form of flattery.
A midget fortune-teller who
escapes from prison is a small medium at large.
Once you've seen one shopping center,
you've seen a mall.
Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead-to-know basis.
Santa's
helpers are subordinate clauses.
Acupuncture is a jab well done.
With apologies to all surfers who've already seen these, and further apologies to all who can't stand puny humor.
Categories:
Sites to See
Air America Radio
AmericaBlog
American Leftist
Andante
Antiwar.com
ArkivMusic.com
Articulate
Arts & Letters Daily
because they are dead
Bill Reed
Blogcritics
Booknotes
Bright Lights Film Journal
Buck Fush
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Clive James
Consortium News
Cost of War in Iraq
Council on Foreign Relations
Crooks and Liars
TheCuttingFloor
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Democracy Now!
Devil Ducky
Doug Ireland
Editor's Cut
Ehrensteinland
Eschaton
Henry Kisor
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Inter Press Service News Agency
International Relations Center
Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
Jacketmagazine
James Wolcott
Jan Herman (Literary) Archive
Krugman's Blog:
Conscience of a Liberal
Lannan Foundation
Life During Wartime
Low Culture
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Museum of Television & Radio
Nat. Arts Journalism Program
National Security Archive
Noam Chomsky
NO!art
Onion Radio News
The Overgrown Path
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Rain Taxi
The Raw Story
RealityStudio.org
The Reeler
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Seeing Black
Studs Terkel
Summit Journal
TalkLeft
The Theater Times (Cris Gross)
The 3rd Page
ThugLit: Writing About Wrongs
Times Square Cam
The Tin Man
Truthdig
t r u t h o u t
Wading in the Velvet Sea
Walking Man
Wikigate
Wikipedia, free encyclopedia
Wm. Osborne & Abbie Conant
World O'Crap Man
AJ Blogs
AJBlogCentral | rssculture
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
Andrew Taylor on the business of arts & culture
rock culture approximately
Rebuilding Gulf Culture after Katrina
Douglas McLennan's blog
Art from the American Outback
John Rockwell on the arts
Jan Herman - arts, media & culture with 'tude
dance
Apollinaire Scherr talks about dance
Tobi Tobias on dance et al...
media
Jeff Weinstein's Cultural Mixology
Martha Bayles on Film...
music
Greg Sandow performs a book-in-progress
Howard Mandel's freelance Urban Improvisation
Focus on New Orleans. Jazz and Other Sounds
Exploring Orchestras w/ Henry Fogel
Kyle Gann on music after the fact
Doug Ramsey on Jazz and other matters...
Greg Sandow on the future of Classical Music
Norman Lebrecht on Shifting Sound Worlds
publishing
Jerome Weeks on Books
Scott McLemee on books, ideas & trash-culture ephemera
theatre
Elizabeth Zimmer on time-based art forms
visual
Public Art, Public Space
John Perreault's art diary
Lee Rosenbaum's Cultural Commentary
Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
