Dispossession is one-tenth of the law.

(Thanks, Mike!)

The successful independent publishing house prides itself on an embarrassment of niches. 
(Thanks, Mike!)

"The fisheye lens allows for photographic expression that challenges conventional views of the world."
—Four-Thirds camera lens catalog (pdf)

In this age of advertising, must even calligraphic ink be pitched as "refreshing" and "moist"?

Did you hear about the orgy for fops?  It ended not with a bang, but a simper.

If a tree falls in the evening, but no one hears about it until the morning papers come out, is it pulp fiction?

(Inspired by literary rapscallion Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.)

Next election, I'm voting for Munchausen by proxy.

Q: How is a Mob meeting like a PowerPoint presentation?

A: Frames and bullets.

Ironically, the Segue Inc. annual report lacked smooth transitions.

Rocket scientists: they promise you the stars.

(Dedicated to Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.)

Sleepy Hollow: the legend of a wraith horse.

(Thanks, Mike!)

"The sun is a simile" is a metaphor, ironically.

A motto for rapper 50 Cent: "Be the change you want to be."

When glue sniffers imagine they have fanciful diseases, it's called "Munchausen's by Epoxy."  (Thanks, Mike!)

When, in the second century, the imperial physician Galen gave himself a pat on the back*, it wasn't self-congratulation**; it was science.

*Galen "gives himself a pat on the back in the first book of On Anatomical Procedures" —William Frank Richardson, in his translation of On the Fabric of the Human Body by Andreas Vesalius

**Patented self-congratulatory apparatus via Futility Closet

When UV rays combine with SUV rays . . .

The sultry grammarian ended her sentence with a proposition.

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

Q: What's the best candy for a minimalist film?

A: Dots.

(Inspired by Martha.)

Because of an elliptical style, the complications between John Venn and his inner circle often went uncharted.