Wordy humour

Do you get twitchy when you see the ’10 items or less’ sign in a supermarket?

The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the winners:

Of course, Dan Quayle is wrong. The right way to spell POTATO is…. GHOUGHPHTHEIGHTTEEAU GH stands for P as in Hiccough OUGH stands for O as in Dough PHTH stands for T as in Pthisis EIGH stands for A as in Neighbour TTE stands for T as in Gazette EAU stands Read more…

Writing taglines isn’t as easy you might think, as shown in this 2013 sketch by Mitchell & Webb.

Warning: Some of these are quite rude (but that’s part of the fun of mis-hearing them):

Names for a typical ordinary /unknown or unidentified man around the world: Joe Bloggs, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus (UK English) Joe Schmoe, Joe Blow, John Doe, Joe Sixpack (US English) Joe Meatball (The Simpsons) John Citizen, Fred Nurk, The Man on the Bondi Tram (Australian) Johnny Canuck (Canadian) Read more…