Word play

[SydneyGeek]

Australia has the Dag's Dictionary, same sort of idea. Two that I like from that are...

Sleep cr*apnoeia -- When you wake up to find that the brilliant idea you jotted down at 3 AM wasn't so brilliant after all
Oxymoron -- Someone who can't use a cutting torch

And then you get the names:

Soria Felova -- a clumsy Russian gymnast.

Any others?

Denis

 

[Andrew Fergus]

I saw this one recently:

osteopornosis : a degenerate disease


Andrew

 

[SydneyGeek]

and:

Reintarnation -- coming back as a hillbilly

Denis

 

[riaz]

Soria Felova -- a clumsy Russian gymnast.

Denis

Walter Wall - carpet specialist
Eileen Dover - accidental skydiver

 

[cornflakegirl]

On a tangent, Douglas Adams* wrote a very funny book called The Meaning of Liff which ascribes meanings to various British place names. Eg

Shoeburyness - The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom
Abinger - One who washes up everything except the frying pan, the cheese grater and the saucepan which the chocolate sauce has been made in

Love it!

*and someone else

 

[SydneyGeek]

One of my favourite books!

Scraptoft - That flap of hair that balding men grow so they can comb it over...
(this one's from memory, so not exact wording)

Denis

 

[SydneyGeek]

When someone's absconded, does that mean that they made off with the Devonshire tea?

Denis

 

[Expiry]

One I heard recently:

If a pig loses its 'oink', is it disgruntled?

 

[riaz]

One I heard recently:

If a pig loses its 'oink', is it disgruntled?

Has anyone ever heard of anyone ever being gruntled in the first place?

 

[SydneyGeek]

Not particularly...

Another thing that occurred to me once. You go for a drive through undulating countryside. Does that mean that the bumpy bits are undules?

Denis