Speech Virtuoso Gifts

Keep your remarks varied but within context...like listening to Pandora.

"You'll love this. It's swarthy yet munificent, didactic and gregarious with hints of dogma."

'Roget it's fantastic, superb, extraordinary...where on earth did you get the idea?'

Ninedency: A budding tendency

"It's a play on words."

"Your vocabulary is enlarged."

Thesaurus Company

'My client has no problem with 'richer' and 'in health'. Our points of contention are 'poorer' and 'in sickness'.'

"Hello, my name is Karl and I'm addicted to speaking to small groups of strangers."

"My nephew Jack here can say ‘I’m unemployed’ in seven languages."

"Whine and cheezed party."

'Either you do or you don't - there isn't any 'cooling-off' period!'

Wordplay: Nonstarter.

Dictionary. It's a cordless spell checker!

"Nobody listens to me complain quite like you do."

'Sometimes, from time to time, occasionally I wish I'd never bought that ruddy thesaurus!'

"Why do people think using big words is a bad thing?"

War Heros Variety Night (playing a tune on his medals).

Does "worldly goods" include intellectual property?

Olden Day Battle of the Bands (Bard vs Sonnet).

"Can you teach me to really bark? I only seem to be able to yap..."

"It's my conscience... It's all achy"

"Dad, is there a word that contains all the vowels?"

Bookworm group

'I'm a voice over artist.'

Sign on Roget's Thesaurus, Inc.: 'Absent Ingesting Comestibles'

"I don't like the tone of your voice. Mind if I tweak it a bit?"

'The chechako sparged rhamnose into his yerba.'

"Now this is a Francis Ford Coppola. We still haven't been here quite long enough to be drinkable ourselves."

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

Armchair quarterback/Armchair everything

Leonard Cohen

When English majors become waiters.

"...and are you, Jessica, committed to this bit?"

". . . and do you, John, give up your smug air of bemused detachment for the demands of marriage?"