“How many threads?” Tom replied.
:: that was staring at me in the face ::
“That guy we got in Congress can’t tell the truth to save his life!” Tom replied.
“Oh, it’s OK, it’s spurting only from my carotid,” said Tom, sanguinely.
Took me a moment.
Me too!
“Mickey, I’m sure your hitting will get even better than it is now if we bat Maris after you in the lineup” said Casey Stengel, giving him a left-handed complement.
“I’d better add $100 to that widget I’m tracking on eBay,” said Tom, morbidly.
I’ll try to do better 
“That nice man has no car and no way to ride the bus” said Tom, intransigently.
“And he has no land to build a new house on, either” Tom added, intractably.
“That does it! I have to get myself a new dummy” said the ventriloquist figuratively.
“I can’t remember who played Colonel Mustard in the movie version of Clue,” Martin mulled.
“Screw the guy whose band I played in prior to joining The Beatles!” said Ringo uproariously.
“I know exactly what the surroundings should look like” said the set designer, making a scene.
“Whole note, half note, quarter note, eighth note” said Tom in measured tones.
“But nobody loves a sixteenth note”, Tom said with a quaver.
:: hey, stick to adverbs. Otherwise different game, no? ::
I see no advantage to placing this unnecessary restriction on the game, unless you can cite some sort of official and widely recognized rulebook for Tom Swifties. No such restriction was placed by the OP.
We ought to be here to have a laugh and appreciate others’ creativity, no?
Of course. Just askin’ man. We gots lots of good pun threads to go around.
“We’ve always entertained a fantasy about starring in a Mack Sennet comedy” Tom said piously.
“Please, have some liqueur,” Tom said, cordially.