Wordy humour

AA letters written by Bill Bailey as performed on 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

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):