Top O' the Mornin'

By Terry Maddox
St. Tammany News
Published on Friday, August 1, 2008 8:42 AM CDT



So, if someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?

Here are some regular words, with some clever definitions:

• Arbitrator: A cook who leaves Arby’s to work at McDonald’s.

• Avoidable: What a bullfighter tries to do.

• Bernadette: The act of torching a mortgage.

• Burglarize: What a crook sees with.

• Control: A short, ugly inmate.

• Counterfeiters: Workers who put together kitchen cabinets.

• Eclipse: What an English barber does for a living.

• Eyedropper: A clumsy ophthalmologist.

• Heroes: What a guy in a boat does.

• Left Bank: What the robber did when his bag was full of loot.

• Misty: How golfers create divots.

• Paradox: Two physicians.

• Parasites: What you see from the top of the Eiffel Tower.

• Relief: What trees do in the spring.

• Rubberneck: What you do to relax your wife.

• Selfish: What the owner of a seafood market does.

• Sudafed: Brought litigation against a government official.

• Subdued: Like a guy, like works on one of those, like, submarines, man!

Hear about the local hardware store owner who is said to have a cure for arthritis? One day, locals saw a little old lady bent over on her walking cane, enter the store for a visit. A little while later she came out walking almost perfectly straight, with her head held high.

The crowd cheered, “It’s a miracle! What did he do?”

“He sold me a longer cane,” she replied.

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

— Mark Twain

Terry Maddox is publisher of St. Tammany News.


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