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Fun-with-words.comURL: http://www.fun-with-words.com/ ODP description: Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay. Page title: Fun With Words > The Wordplay Web Site Page description: Wordplay, Word Puzzles, and Word Games ![]() |
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Keepers of ListsURL: http://www.keepersoflists.org/ ODP description: A large archive of amusing lists. Lists can be created, added to and voted on by the public. Page title: Keepers of Lists - The Keepers Welcome You ![]() |
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The Collective Noun PageURL: http://www.ojohaven.com/collectives/ ODP description: Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'. Page description: The Collective Noun Homepage ![]() |
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Funnyname.comURL: http://www.funnyname.com/ ODP description: A collection of amusing, interesting, strange, and occasionally rude names from the phone book. Page title: The Funny Name Server Page description: Thousands of funny, strange, and rude names of real people and businesses from the phone book ![]() |
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The Mother of All Excuses PlaceURL: http://madtbone.tripod.com/ ODP description: Over 900 excuses to not go to work or school, police and accidents, breaking dates, doctor, missing church, diet, and taxes. ![]() |
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Vocab VitaminsURL: http://www.vocabvitamins.com/ ODP description: Introduces an uncommon word or phrase each day, along with a definition. Includes archives, and a daily email service. Page title: Vocab Vitamins - Vocabulary supplements, including the word of the day mailing list, MyWordaDay, packed with great words for writers, speakers, test preppers, the verbally inclined -- and their admirers. Page description: Simple and thoughtful tools to expand your vocabulary for effective communication in the English language. For writers, readers, those with an urgent need for test preparation (SAT, GRE, and any exam with a verbal component), and everyday people with a penchant for delivering the full range of their thoughts to the world around them. ![]() |
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Gadzillion Things to Think AboutURL: http://www.gadzillionthings.net/ ODP description: 10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions. Page title: Gadzillion Things To Think About Page description: Real life humor questions to encourage the whole family to THINK and be CREATIVE in a FUN way ![]() |
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Answers to Rhetorical QuestionsURL: http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/gradgrind.html ODP description: Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects. Page title: Literal Answers to Rhetorical Questions ![]() |
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Faulkner or Machine Translation?URL: http://reverent.org/sounds_like_faulkner.html ODP description: A quiz to determine whether literary passages are the Faulkner originals or ones machine-translated from German into English. Page title: Machine translation or Faulkner? ![]() |
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Loquacious LipogramsURL: http://phrontistery.info/lipogram.html ODP description: Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter. Page title: A Loquacious Location of Lipograms Page description: Lipograms: words that don't contain a symbol: a linguistic oddity for linguistic oddballs ![]() |
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Dislexicon Word GeneratorURL: http://www.robobunny.com/cgi-bin/dislexicon/dlc ODP description: Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them. Page title: Dislexicon: The English Language Extender ![]() |
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National Public RadioURL: http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle/ ODP description: New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge. Page title: NPR : Sunday Puzzle ![]() |
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Sayings and RhetoricURL: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8797/JOKES/sayings.html ODP description: Mind-wanderings and rhetorical questions. Page title: Jokes, funnies, sayings, one liners, comedy, humor, laughs, books, best-sellers Page description: Pick a few funnies and chuckles to send to your e-mail friends. ![]() |
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Word SkitURL: http://www.wordskit.com/ ODP description: Linguistic contortions, weird and wonderful words, plus quotations. Page title: WordSkit - Quotations, Linguistic Eccentricities & Heenan's Universal Dictionary ![]() |
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Funny Names SiteURL: http://users.breathe.com/ionabigyot/ ODP description: Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats. Page title: The Funny Names Site-silly made up names to make you smile Page description: funny names,silly,made up names for emails,signing up,logging in,testing databases but mainly to make you smile. ![]() |
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Stupid QuestionsURL: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/9006/stupid.html ODP description: Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions. ![]() |
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PhobiasURL: http://www.geocities.com/nallen20/FunnyPhobias.txt ODP description: Article lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia-- fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth. ![]() |
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LazrChet's Rhetorical QuestionsURL: http://users.owt.com/lazrchet/humor/rhetoric.htm ODP description: Questions designed to open one's mind, even if no answer is expected. Page title: LazrChet's Humor: Rhetorical Questions ![]() |
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Piece of Pi MadLibsURL: http://madlibs.freeservers.com/ ODP description: Site featuring a collection of madlibs. ![]() |
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Before and AfterURL: http://www.bridge.net/~labush/lalmwk20.htm ODP description: The object is to fill in the blanks. Example: "____ day ____" becomes "Sun day light", that is, "Sunday" and "Daylight". ![]() |
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