[HPFGU-OTChatter] "Tom Swifties"

[Doreen]

Oh ... I think I see a list in the making ... what do YOU think, Steve?

These are adorably funny and witty! Darn! I wish that I was not on my way to getting ready for work! By the time I get home tonite, all the good ones will have been taken!

Doreen said rushingly (is that a word) or how about retiringly, cuz I cant wait til I am retired and on a pension and can sit 24/7 in front of my pc... I plan to pack it up and take it to the Home with me too, when my time comes. My kids will know that it will be the easiest way to keep me happy.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim Flanagan 
  To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 2:42 PM
  Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] "Tom Swifties"


  Does anybody remember "Tom Swifties?"  These little one-liners were 
  popular, along with elephant jokes and Spoonerisms, back when I was 
  in junior high school. It shouldn't be necessary to explain how they 
  work -- just take a look at these examples from Harry Potter's 
  universe:

  "I'm over here, Hermione, under the invisibility cloak," whispered 
  Harry, transparently.

  "Meow!" said Cruikshanks, catagorically.

  "Do you like my new dress robes?" asked Fleur, figuratively.

  "You must put the lacewings in *before* the axolotl, Longbottom!" 
  Snape said explosively.

  "Avada, uh... how does that go again?" said Goyle, cursorily.

  "I've lost my finger!" cried Pettigrew, pointlessly. (with apologies 
  to Elizabeth Shaffer)

  "Allow me to introduce myself; I am Madam Maxime," she said, broadly.

  "Want to play a game of chess?" asked Ron, ponderously 
  ("pawnderously").

  "Welcome to the Knight Bus," said Stan, conductively.

  "Oh, no!  I've forgotten my colour-coded revisions!" said Hermione, 
  listlessly.

  "That @#$%! poltergeist!" Filch swore, peevishly.

  "Mine was sixteen inches, solid oak," stated Hagrid, erectly.

  "Someone's stolen all the games from the Common Room," cried Fred and 
  George, Cluelessly.

  "You must breathe in the medicated vapours as deeply as possible," 
  said Madam Pomfrey, inspirationally.

  "Please concentrate all your attention on this pocket watch..." 
  Professor Trelawney intoned, hypnotically.

  "Welcome to my humble stall," said Myrtle, commodiously.


  Can you think of others?

  -Jim Flanagan


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