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Can you read these correctly the first time?.

1. The bandage was wound around the wound.

2. The farm was used to produce produce.

3. The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

4. We must polish the Polish furniture.

5. He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

7. Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present

the present.

8. A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

9. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10. I did not object to the object.

11. The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12. There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

13. They were too close to the door to close it.

14. The buck does funny things when the does are present.

15. A seamstress and a sewer fell into a sewer line.

16. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17. The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18. Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

19. I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

20. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?.

Let's face it, English is a strange and wonderful language.

Rick.

:devious: :devious:

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Here's some more items of disinterest for Our Bill to ponder;

There is no egg in eggplant, no ham in hamburger, neither pine or apple in pineapple, English muffins were not invented in England or french fries in France, sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which are not sweet, are meat.

Quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. Why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?.

As the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the the plural of booth, beeth?.

One goose, 2 geese. Why not 1 moose, 2 meese?. You can make amends but not one amend.

Here's a good question for you Bill;

If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?.

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?.

If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?.

Ship by truck and send cargo by ship??.

Have noses that run and feet that smell?.

Your barn can burn up as it burns down, you fill in a form by filling it out and an alarm goes off by going on.

One last question for tonight;

Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "Quick"????????????????????????.

Rick.

Hmmmmm, Pimpology huh???? well now, ........we all know what a pimp is don't we ???????????? Bill, .... shame be upon you.

Here's something else for you to consider.

There is a two letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two letter word, and that is, ....UP.

It's easy to understand UP, meaning towards the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?.

At a meeting, why does a topic come UP?.

Why do we speak UP and why are politicians UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?.

We call UP our friends, and we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen.

We lock UP the house and some people fix UP old cars.LOL :classic:

At other times the little word has real special meaning.

People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work Up an appetite, and think UP excuses.

To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.

And this word UP can be confusing.

A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.

We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP.

To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look UP the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk sized dictionary, it takes UP almost a quarter of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions.

If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you might wind UP with a hundred or more.

When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP.

When the sun comes out, we say it is clearing UP.

When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.

When it doesn't rain for a while, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but lets wrap it UP, for the time is UP, so, ..............

Time to shut UP .....!!!!!!

Rick.

:devious: :devious:

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