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Fun Friday

24 Feb

One of the first things I do each morning is scan the two hundred or so blogs on my Google Reader. Often, on the days I post, I decide to change my content based on something on one of these blogs. Today is such a day.

Rachelle Gardner, one of the best bloggers and agents out there, had a post I adored. Perhaps it resonated with me because I recently completed the words to fuel the first year of the “word of the day” feature at the soon to be launched new and improved Killer Nashville website. Who knows?

Her post was centered around the word “paraprosdokian.” She kindly shared the website English Forums with me so I could make my own list of favorites.

First a definition: A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech where the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part.

Here are my top 25 (in no particular order):

  1. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
  2. Light travels faster than sound. That’s why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
  3. When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember the Fire Department usually uses water.
  4. I used to be indecisive. Now I’m not sure.
  5. Some Cause happiness wherever they go. Others whenever they go.
  6. Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make misery easier to live with.
  7. A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip
  8. Hospitality: making your guests feel like they’re home, even if you wish they were
  9. I didn’t say it was your fault; I said I was blaming you.
  10. Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?
  11. Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.
  12. The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!
  13. Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.
  14. How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?
  15. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.
  16. Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
  17. I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather, not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.
  18. The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it’s still on my list.
  19. If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.
  20. We never really grow up; we only learn how to act in public.
  21. War does not determine who is right–only who is left.
  22. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  23. The evening news is where they begin with “Good Evening” and then proceed to tell you why it isn’t
  24. I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way, so I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
  25. Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
What are your favorites? Do you know others?
Have a great weekend.
~ Kay

 
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