Tom Swifties

“Let me tell you about my sleep last night,” said Tom dreamily.

The Gophers have collapsed the golfers clubhouse; Tom said underminingly

My doctor may have removed my brain!; Tom said absentmindedly

Mt Father met some of his shady friends in Dallas in 1963; Tom whispered conpiratorily

Lassie drop that bone! Tom barked!

I heard that Mr. Hammil may get to play Luke skywalker again in Star Wars episode 3 Tom re-marked.

“I don’t know what to do, I just ran out of toothpaste,” Tom said aimlessly.

“I love wine spritzers,” Tom said fizzily.

“I have a cabin cruiser and I’m taking it out on the Lake,” Tom said Superiorly.

“I thought you said it was an open book exam!” Tom said, testily.

“The Broadway stage has always been my highest ambition,” Tom said, dramatically.

“I remember what I did before I was ten years old,” Tom said benignly.

“Weird Al Yankovic is a good musician”, Tom said accordingly.

“That’s how I always throw,” Tom said underhandedly.

“I’m into analingus,” was Tom’s tongue-in-cheek remark.

“Oh, I just LOOOOVE horses!” Tom whinnied.

“I hate when the post office loses my mail and I have to mail it out again!” Tom said resentfully.

“Boy am I glad to be at the airport in LA again,” Tom said, relaxed.

“Stop banging my knee!” Tom yelled, reflexively.

“He’s a poor surgeon,” Tom said, cuttingly.

“I can’t seem to stop this horse,” Tom sighed woefully.

“That Johnson boy on the Diamondbacks is SO HOT!” exclaimed Tom randily.

“Schilling is hotter.” replied Huck curtly.

“Who’s up for Monopoly?” Tom asked gamely.

“I’m gonna sneak into their house and steal their television!” Tom broke in.

“Oh boy! I just love homosexual necrophilia!” said Tom in dead earnest.

[sub]I’m going to hell[/sub]

“At least I didn’t lose every game,” Tom said winsomely.

“What? I have to kill all the young cattle from this herd too?” complained Tom revealingly.

“Gimme two bratwursts,” said Tom, with relish.

“I love camping out,” said Tom intently.

“No, you can’t have any of my oysters,” said Tom shellfishly.

“I’m drowning off the Isle of Wight!” said Tom insolently.

“You’re as beautiful as the Venus de Milo,” said Tom disarmingly.

“I kill cookware,” Tom deadpanned.

“I hate the taste of this medicine,” Tom complained bitterly.

“The northern edge of Pennsylvania is spooky in some places,” Tom said in an eerie voice.

“I hate snake bites!” Tom said venomously.

“OH! OH! OOOH! AAAAAHHHHHHOOOOOOHHHHHHH!” she screamed cumpassionately

“I love Star Trek” Tom said enterprisingly.

“In which book did they start - I’ve read the first two and there aren’t any in them,” Voyager said swiftly.

“When installing a switch, be sure not to cross the wires”, said Tom shockingly.

“Wow, that’s the first 7-10 split I ever picked up”, Tom said sparingly

“You’re the devil in disguise!” Tom exclaimed hornily.

“I loved working with Honor Blackman,” said Sean Connery pushily.

Tom Swiftie, a play on words that follows an unvarying
pattern and relies for its humor on a punning relationship
between the way an adverb describes a speaker and at the
same time refers significantly to the import of the
speaker’s statement, as in “I know who turned off the
lights,” Tom hinted darkly.
[named after a narrative
mannerism characteristic of the Tom Swift American
series of adventure novels for boys]

In actual use, “Tom Swifty” seems to have a somewhat broader
meaning, and includes the form christened “croakers” by Roy
Bongartz, wherein a verb rather than an adverb supplies the pun
(e.g. “I’m dying”, he croaked).

“White zinfandel is for amateurs,” Tom whined.

“I’m missing my copy of my favorite board game,” Tom said cluelessly.

“Cecil Adams is my hero!” Tom said dopily. :wink:

“A fine example of modern painting,” Tom said abstractly.

“It depicts the insect that causes lime disease,” he added articulately.