Word Play

[Midnightmom]

The English language can be so much fun (sometimes)! 

If you have any examples, post them here.

 

I'll start. This "brain teaser" meme is a grammar lesson, a spelling lesson, and a science lesson all in one!!!  

I'll bet it tastes good too! 

 

Edited January 6, 2023 by Midnightmom

[Jeepers]

Octopi. 

Octo Pie.

Eight Pies.  

Ate Pies. 

 

Ignore me. I have Covid...

[Mt_Rider]

Jeeeepers!  I started laughing and then coughing!  The funniest part of all that was "ignore me. I have Covid... "      Now we know our Jeepers is feeling a bit more like herself!   

 

 ....really need to quit trying to catch up on MrsS ..... oh no.  IT'S 1:30 am already.  It was midnight just a few MrsS threads ago....    

 

MtRider     ....after I read 3 more threads.... really! 

[Littlesister]

Yep, I do believe Jeepers is starting to feel a bit better.

 

What has eight arms, three hearts, uses camouflage, and has a very confusing plural form?

The octopus. In plural form it is octopodes.  It's Latin.

 

 

[Mt_Rider]

Three hearts?  No wonder they made "horror" movies of "skin divers" running into rogue octopodes. 

 

MtRider  ...great trivia question.   

[Midnightmom]

Some more fun with words and phrases that I know you will all enjoy!    

 

 

 

[Jeepers]

That last one cracked me up. 

[Midnightmom]

Betcha' can't not "sing" this one!

 

 

Somebody wrote a "serious" answer in the post I "stole" this from:

• The alligator's head is shaped like an "A" and the crockodile's head is shaped like a "C."

 

But, if you think about it, that only helps you to identify one from the other, but does not answer the question. So, them trying to "show off" failed............... miserably!!! 

[Littlesister]

Yep,  See you later alligator.  After while crocodile.  And don't bite me.  

[euphrasyne]

Don't forget Gharls, Caimans, and we even have 2 Tomistoma at the aquarium here.  

Tomistoma | Animals at the Virginia Aquarium

[Mt_Rider]

Wow...interesting, Euphrasyne.  Had no idea there were OTHER long biting things in the waters.

 

MtRider     ...lotta dental fixtures in those guys. 

[Jeepers]

Someone telling one of those critters to "bite your tongue" could have bad consequences.  

Dental bill must be pretty high too. Hope their kids don't need braces.  $$$

[euphrasyne]

Alligator is legal to hunt in MS.   When I lived in Vicksburg, we had a 5pm traffic back up everyday by the MS river bridge because 'Bob' would lay in the road begging for idiots to feed him.  You'd be driving around and the traffic report would come on the radio 'Bob's in the road again.  Please do not feed the ALLIGATORS people.   If you stop feeding him, he will stop blocking traffic.  

[Mt_Rider]

To me that would be so alien and scary.  But then our mountains have some scary beasts too.  Kinda funny about Bob tho..

 

MtRider 

[Jeepers]

In the 50's - 60's we lived in a trailer park in Florida. At one end there was a huge pond. A small-ish alligator lived there. I can imagine someone let it loose as it got too big for a pet. Back then you could buy the babies as a souvenir. Also stuffed ones.   Even though we knew it was there, we kids would still play there. Why the alligator wasn't removed or why the pond wasn't fenced in is a mystery to me. I guess no one thought of that. Or why we continued to play there is a mystery too. I suppose since no one was eaten, it was considered safe. 

 

We also used to play in a little stream there that had nice clay deposits. We really liked playing with that. It wasn't a babbling brook. More like a half dried up trickling ditch. It's a wonder we all didn't come down with the polio. But since no one did and it was clean enough for tadpoles....

 

It was sure a different time back then.  

[Midnightmom]

I don't think I could've "written" this in "Danish" either!!!

Well, maybe I could have written it, but it would not have survived the time necessary to take the picture!!! 

 

[Midnightmom]

I have to stop and think about the spelling of this word all of the time!  You???

 

         

 

[Jeepers]

Dessert.

[Midnightmom]

9 hours ago, Jeepers said:

Dessert

 

I was talking about the "island." 

Painted a rock a few years ago for a contest within a FB group ................... 

 

[Jeepers]

Dessert Island vs Desert Island.  Spelling.

Notice all of the desserts on the island. 

The cartoonist mistook desert for dessert. 

 

[Midnightmom]

Compund words can be so much fun!

 

[Midnightmom]

Latest addition to the "collection"

 

If you actually did this, how would you describe your "skills" on the resume??? 

 

[Jeepers]

When I bought the Indy house there was a sign on the fence around the garden area that said, "Plant Manager Wanted."  

 

 

 

 

 

[Littlesister]

Plant manager works for me.  I think we all here would fit that category. 

 

Love the cat fishing. That brings a whole new meaning to catfish. 

[Midnightmom]

My MIL used to eat the HUGE ones - the kind where you could only fit one into a bowl! Can't remember if they were "frosted" or not though. I could never eat any variety of these as a cereal in milk cause they got tooooooooo mushy, BUT, I love the mini variety out of the box with just a little bit of peanut butter spread on them. Yum!