"My mother is German," muttered Til.
"What is the Unix command for stream editing?" said Tom.
"I am going to Egypt," Tom said senilely.
"Guess what my favorite publishing house is," Tom said academically.
"Lets go see the movie Aladdin" said Tom genially.
"I like black holes" said Tom singularly.
"I live in an apartment," said Tom flatly
"You, too, can win a Starship!", said Tom, enterprisingly.
"Brunettes have less pun", said Tom punishingly.
"Who said I'm anemic?" Tom asked ironically.
"To highlight what I want to say.....", Tom continued, boldly.
"OK, OK, I do have a split personality," Tom said, beside himself.
"I don't think I'll be at work tomorrow", Tom said absently.
"I just passed my electrocardiogram!" Tom said wholeheartedly.
"It seems I always have to renew my subscriptions, " Tom said periodically.
"Lets go camping in the woods" said Tom intensely.
"I HATE adverbs!" Tom said.

``I just love the Tom Swifties in your homepage. I humbly offer a few more as contributions.'' yielded Michael Niv:

"I'm highly educated! I'm highly educated!", droned Tom chronically.
"I make a UNIX clone for PC's", announced Linus freely.
"Sit on a potato pan, Otis.", said Otto palindromically.
"You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish.", uttered Veronica randomly.


Here's The Canonical Collection of Tom Swifties. And there are some other sources:

Wutka's 101 Tom Swifties
Another Tom Swiftie Compilation
More Tom Swifties


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