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Category: Humor
Type: List
Description: Tom Swifties
Subject: Tom Swifties, part 1

I love these, and I ask my students to try to come up with new ones for me.
Here are some from a book, _Get Thee to a Punnery_ (borrowed from a friend in
another time and place, and I've no idea of how to get one for myself.)  The
section begins,

"During the early part of this century, boys and girls grew up devouring the
adventures of Tom Swift, a sterling young hero created by Edward Stratemeyer.
...Tom and his friends and enemies never just said something: they always said
it *excitedly* or *sadly* or *hurriedly*.  Tom Swift and his wonderful electric
aeroplane have been mothballed, but the adverbial pun game known as Tom
Swifties still flies.  The object is to match the adverb with the quotation to produce,
in each case, a high-flying pun:"

"I love these pancakes," said Tom flippantly.
"My pants are wrinkled," said Tom ironically.
"Oh, I've dropped my toothpaste," said Tom crestfallenly.
"I've run out of laundry detergent," said Tom cheerlessly.
"I hate pineapples," said Tom dolefully.
"I'll take the prisoner downstairs," said Tom condescendingly.