MALAPROPISMS
Sea King,
type of helicopter.
Seeking,
looking for.
Two string towels.
Two strong trowels.
Senile dimensions.
NAMES
Sir Geo Leone,
Sergio Leone.
Stan Stead,
airport worker.
Sue Nami,
oceanographer.
Sue Mou,
lady wrestler.
ODDS
The "Santa Clause" (legal term) payable 25th December.
Go to the salt seller and buy some salt for the salt cellar.
A country seat is not a chair in a park.
Secretion,
hiding place.
Serology,
study of English gentry.
Seven days without prayer makes one weak (week) church notice board.
SINKS,
single income no kids.
WIMPEY,
large road making company in UK
‘We Employ More Paddies Every Year’.
South Africa,
geographical place rather than name of country.
Spokesperson,
is not a repairer of bicycle wheels.
Square meal,
possibly from square hard-tack ships biscuits.
Why does one always "go straight" to the police?
Are there no bends or turns on the way?
Stress,
strain.
Distress,
is not to unstress. But distress could be.
That isn't what I saw,
But what I did see
Was a man who's hand was sore,
Because, when he was by the sea
Making a seat for a sea-saw with a chain saw,
He saw that he could use the bits, you see,
to make a jig-saw. LT.1992.
What are the swashes that swashbucklers buckle on?
A safe combination 12x37214.
A safe combination is not water and electricity.
Silents,
early movies.
Silence,
‘of the lambs’. (movie)
A "steel" erector.
SPOONERISMS
From William Spooner, warden, New College, Oxford.
Sew these ladies into their sheets.
Tons of soil,
sons of toil.
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