If a separate Tom Swifty thread is started, I got a million of 'em. I got on a kick many years ago and wrote quite a few.
Plus I remember some of the winning entries in the original Time magazine contest that started the whole thing.
“Do you enjoy listening to Gregorian chant?”
“Greg. Ian tends to sing flat.”
One from high school chemistry class:
NaCl H2O NaCl H2O
CCCCCCC
(Saline, saline over the seven Cs)
Ding! Winner!
But can someone help me out with this one?
Maybe it’s cos I’m from the UK, but this means nothing to me…
Did anyone do the one about not putting all their Basques in one exit yet?
From Wikipedia:
It’s amazing the things your brain remembers from school. People near my age probably have heard the slogan (“Tippecanoe and Tyler too”) even if we weren’t around when it was being used. It was in our History books but unlike lots of other stuff that was also in the History books, this stuck in my mind.
It’s a play on “Tippecanoe and Tyler, too” – the campaign slogan of the Whig party in the 1840 U.S. presidential election.
Tippecanoe was William Henry Harrison, the president who served the shortest term in U.S. history. John Tyler was his vice president, who assumed the presidency when Harrison fell ill shortly after his inauguration and died.
EDIT: Damn, beaten by one minute!
“Reinforced one minute later” from my point of view. 