Text Linguistics Enthusiast Mugs

Head of Acronym Development

'The meaning of communinication is the response we get'

"Whenever he shows up everything turns to crap!"

Man packing suitcase with French vocabulary

"We've decided that it will be better for his later development if we speak to him only in legalese."

'I've been called some mean things as a baby boomer, but 'Pig in the Python' really hurts.'

"Oh, look- French! Let's try it."

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

'Whoooa,MAN,check out this STORM! It's PELTING down!'

'Amscray,fuzzbrain - no carnivores allowed

"I know! I know! I K-n-o-w!. . . Um, what was the question?"

The Family Joules: Part 21

Wordplay: In The Bag.

My belief is if you're old enough to take texts, counter-texts, and meta-texts in Western Philosophy, you should be old enough to drink.

'Stick them up...'

Henry the amazing talking dog.

'This is the fun part...waiting to find out just what we've ordered.

'Mom and dad...if someone threw a rock at me, it would really be like killing two birds with one stone.' 'I told you if we had a child, he'd be a wise-quacker.'

'I made a hundred on the Spanish test. Gracias.'

Malaprop Man! Adventures. Malaprop Man! Where have you been? At a stupor her comet confection! Did many of your fellow heroes show up? We had a great turnabout! Backman and the Incredible Bulk were there! So was Caption Americ, the Flush, Wander Woman and Plasterman! Very impressive. Who was the most popular with the fans? I think I was the main distraction! I have no doubt at all about that!

Raphnrrf? Raphnrrf? Umpha? Frfee? Maamr? Pick.

Two vending machines for fisherman: 'Live Bait' next to 'Dead as a Doornail Bait'

'Alphabet soup? What's alphabet?'

His Hers Pers Vis Xyrs Hirs TBD

Say it with flowers - available in any language.

Turkey to human dictionary - 'Quiet!!! You don't realize what you're saying!'

'Do you always have to shout? Well? Do you? Huh?'

'In today's market hyperbole was up sharply. Similes and metaphors held relatively steady with euphemisms hitting another record low.'

'Diver caught scallops - is that a description of what happened or a compound adjective'

'Give it to me straight, Doc... is it pronounceable?'

'That's not what I meant by 'IV'.'

'To them, capital punishment means making them use proper capitalization.'

Signing the declaration of independence.

Shrewsbury - pronunciation

The Oxford Comma Coin