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 True of False: Hash is funnier than croquette.
Clue: This is according to the book The Sense of Humor.
Answer: True. “Hash is immensely humorous, but a croquette is not. Yet, what is a croquette but hash that has come to a head?” (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: Max Eastman, The Sense of Humor (1921), p. 150.
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FULL (PROGRESSIVE)"Semicolon, or semi-lunar in shape." —Thomas Wright Moir Cameron, The Parasites of Man in Temperate Climates (1960)
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 Turtles or Hurdles?In each sentence, guess whether the blank traverses a "turtle" or a "hurdle."1. "What a sight [those slow, lumbering snails] had been! Something like a slow ___." — Patricia Highsmith, Eleven, 1989, p. 772. 2. "Interestingly, the animals would occasionally leap over the ___." —Christopher Peterson, et al., Learned Helplessness, 1995, p. 193. 3. "He jumped over the ___. Then he turned and ran across the roof as fast as he could." —Paul Andrew Witty, Reading for Interest, 1955, p .114 Answer: 1. hurdle, 2. hurdle, 3. turtle (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
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| The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine |
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~ Headlessness ~ 
Portrait from A Memoir of John Deakin Heaton.
“He, without eyes, surveying material and spiritual worlds.” —The Common School Journal
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 Is it true, as Momus
suggests, that there are "few tales which would not be improved by the
addition of the phrase 'suddenly, a shot rang out'"? Decide for
yourself as we alter the opening lines of . . . METAMORPHOSIS by Franz KafkaOne morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked. Suddenly, a shot rang out.
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
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I want to contract the word "don't" by leaving the appostrophe out. Do I have to put it back in in order to take it out?
Here's our solution:
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Is it true, as Momus
suggests, that there are "few tales which would not be improved by the
addition of the phrase 'suddenly, a shot rang out'"? Decide for
yourself as we alter the opening lines of . . .
THE RAZOR'S EDGE by W. Somerset Maugham
I have never begun a novel with more misgiving. Suddenly, a shot rings out.
[Thanks to June for the suggestion!]
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Which is funnier: comic actor W.C. Fields or the idea of W.C. Fields?
Clue: This is according to journalist Wilfrid Sheed.
Answer: the idea. “I have always felt that the idea of Fields is funnier than Fields himself; that even the face and voice he has taught us to remember are not quite the real Fields.” (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: Wilfrid Sheed, The Good Word and Other Words (1978), p. 191.
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FULL (FUTURE)"The craters of the moon. Semicolon." —W. W. Pasko, American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking (1894)
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
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