{"id":40279,"date":"2022-08-02T04:27:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T18:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=40279"},"modified":"2022-08-02T06:20:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T20:20:24","slug":"loxophilia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=40279","title":{"rendered":"Lexophilia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although not in the dictionary, it is reported that &#8220;Lexophile&#8221; describes a person who loves sentences such as, &#8220;You can tune a piano, but you can&#8217;t tuna fish,&#8221; and, &#8220;To write with a broken pencil is pointless\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>An annual competition is held by the &#8216;New York Times&#8217; to see who can create the best original lexophile.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s submissions:<\/p>\n<p>I changed my iPod&#8217;s name to Titanic. It&#8217;s syncing now.<\/p>\n<p>England has no kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>Haunted French pancakes give me the crepes.<\/p>\n<p>This girl today said she recognized me from the Vegetarians Club, but I&#8217;d swear I&#8217;ve never met herbivore.<\/p>\n<p>I know a guy who&#8217;s addicted to drinking brake fluid, but he says he can stop any time.<\/p>\n<p>A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.<\/p>\n<p>When the smog lifts in Los Angeles, U.C.L.A.<\/p>\n<p>I got some batteries that were given out free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>A dentist and a manicurist married. They fought tooth and nail.<\/p>\n<p>A will is a dead giveaway.<\/p>\n<p>With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.<\/p>\n<p>Police were summoned to a daycare center where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.<\/p>\n<p>A bicycle can&#8217;t stand alone; it&#8217;s just two tired.<\/p>\n<p>The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine last week is now fully recovered.<\/p>\n<p>He had a photographic memory but it was never fully developed.<\/p>\n<p>When she saw her first strands of gray hair she thought she&#8217;d dye.<\/p>\n<p>Acupuncture is a jab well done. That&#8217;s the point of it.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t like my beard at first. Then it grew on me.<\/p>\n<p>Did you hear about the crossed-eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn&#8217;t control her pupils?<\/p>\n<p>When you get a bladder infection, urine trouble.<\/p>\n<p>When chemists die, they barium.<\/p>\n<p>I stayed up all night to see where the sun went, and then it dawned on me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m reading a book about anti-gravity. I just can&#8217;t put it down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although not in the dictionary, it is reported that &#8220;Lexophile&#8221; describes a person who loves sentences such as, &#8220;You can tune a piano, but you can&#8217;t tuna fish,&#8221; and, &#8220;To write with a broken pencil is pointless\u201d. An annual competition is held by the &#8216;New York Times&#8217; to see who can create the best original &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=40279\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lexophilia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-humourhumor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40284,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40279\/revisions\/40284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}