Linguistic Wizards Mugs

"I detect an accent — one that's down on its luck and has had too much to drink."

'So you want an advance on your writer's block?'

'His best qualities are circumventing questions and evading answers.'

Backfire

"My report to the board was perfect. They did not understand a word of it and now think I'm smarter than them."

"Your vocabulary is enlarged."

Tesseract of the D'Urbervilles.

'My manuscript is available for download on the internet. I'll email the link to you.'

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Shakespeare Quote

"A 'pregnant pause' is effective only if you've already said something."

A. Lincoln, President. The "of the people, by the people, for the people" part is great, Abe, but the "people who need people" section may be overkill.

'How many words per minute do you type?'

We pay the maximum minimum wage.

'My blog has been favourited over half a million times but still no book deal!'

Spell-Check Bee

'They decided to immure the ladrone in a drogue.'

Wordplay: Lemonade - Save the Lemon.

Danae's Prescient Auto-Biography: '...My prescient autobiography is a publisher's dream...no need for fact-checking!'

He knows a few words, but he doesn't stay on message.

"Honey, Clay Buchholz is about to cement a Cy Young!"

Congress today convened a special panel to study use of illegal performance enhancing drugs on the senior Scrabble tour. Members of Congress expressed outrage that such a national pastime could be sullied by fiber doping. Their anger led to an angry exchange with one witness. Hey Congress, here's a four-letter word … Turn off her mic.

"Are we their yet?"

"I don't do spells. I'm a wizard at deciphering rap lyrics."

"And she's an interesting conversationalist, too."

'Why do I always get a teaching assistant whose pronunciation is awful?'

We have skule clothes.

'Despite anosmia she fonded her penuche.'

At 4 years old most kids can say easy straightforward sentences.

"It's eagle before snake except after feather."

'Were there any new buzzwords created while I was out to lunch.'

"I'll have a vole, please Carol"

Author of thought for the day on commitment remains anonymous.

"I need some help to write my self-help book..."

"It's the first tell-all book by a former Administration insider written entirely in iambic pentameter."