Tom Swifites

[Pigwidgeon]

If it wasn't for me trying to clean my teeth while writing this I 
would have been ROFLMBO.


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Jim Flanagan" <jamesf at a...> wrote:
>                        Ministry of Magic
>              Bureau for the Defence of Magical Humour
>                          3 March, 2001
> 
> 
> Dear Ms. Crustum:
> 
> Thank you for you submission of 3 March.  However, The Department 
> must inform you that your "Tom Swiftie" was not written in proper 
> form. Please note that canonical "Swifties" *must* adhere to the 
> following formal structure:
> 
> "<statement>," <name> <said, asked, inquired, implored, etc.>, 
> <adverb>.
> 
> In your initial submission, '"The mirror in the Boy's dorm always 
> seems sad," Harry reflected.' lacked the obligatory adverb, and 
> should, accordingly, be rewritten thusly:
> 
> "The mirror in the Boy's dorm always seems sad," Harry said, 
> reflectively.
> 
> Failure to mend your ways in the very near future will result in 
> removal of the "W" key from your keyboard, and we all know how 
> traumatic *that* can be.
> 
>                              Yours Retentively, etc.
> 
>                              Anal P. Lardbhottom
>                              Department of Canonical Swifties
> 
> 
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Doreen" <nera at r...> wrote:
> > 
> >   ----- Original Message ----- 
> >   From: Morsus Crustum 
> >   To: HPFGU-OTChatter at y... 
> >   Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 10:35 PM
> >   Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Tom Swifites
> > 
> > 
> >   Hmm. Does this count?
> > 
> >   "The mirror in the Boy's dorm always seems sad," Harry 
reflected.
> > 
> > 
> >   Morsus Crustum
> >   It works for me. I am collecting all of the Tom Swifties onto 
one 
> big list. When I get them all done, what do I do with it? Or where 
do 
> I go to upload it or whatever?
> >   Doreen
> > 
> > 
> > 
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