Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 24 Feb 12 - 03:09 PM

"Mirror? or rim?" he reflected.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 25 Feb 12 - 05:41 AM

That little devil didn't tell the truth, Tom implied

It's a lost cause, said Jude obscurely


I've acquired the ability to determine the sex of newborn chicks, he engendered

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 25 Feb 12 - 06:28 AM

Moses, take a letter! Dictated the deity

I've just made a man, he said adamantly

I'm going to make a woman too, he said, eventually

Have an apple, it's one of your 5 a day, said the asp exasperatingly

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 26 Feb 12 - 06:47 AM

Where did you find the camping stuff?
It was in the paper, he said inadvertently

I, Robot, Sonny said mechanically

I am your father, which aren't in heaven,
said Darth Vader paternalistically

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: meself
Date: 26 Feb 12 - 02:14 PM

You seemed to like that apple, Eve insinuated.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 26 Feb 12 - 03:20 PM

"Una had a relationship with Edmund", he said, unaffected.

"My sister in law squeals and wriggles if I gently brush her toes with a feather", said Albert relativistically.

"Either play some music or go to the Devil" he importuned.

"Get going, old bike!" urged Tom, procedurally.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: meself
Date: 26 Feb 12 - 03:43 PM

"We left a tip", said Tom, gratuitously.

"And I left Calvin a gratuity," Mary said, typically.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: meself
Date: 26 Feb 12 - 04:28 PM

"It's more than just a cold," said the Spaniard influentially.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: meself
Date: 26 Feb 12 - 04:29 PM

"Abraham, how about a sacrifice?" said God, sunnily.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 28 Feb 12 - 03:02 AM

We've just got an automated cleaning lady, Tom said charismatically

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Michael
Date: 28 Feb 12 - 05:30 AM

"Give us a call about the brass concert", said Tom euphoniously.

"The card in my mobile phone is rubbish", said Tom symbolically.

"You sang it differently this time", said Cecil sharply.

"Do you think four minutes and thirty three seconds might be a bit too long?" Asked John cagily.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 28 Feb 12 - 12:45 PM

The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Well it's an old Karr, he continued

These hot cross buns are cold, he said crossly

I don't care a fig, said Adam figuratively

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 28 Feb 12 - 01:10 PM

"Your mobile phone card is a bit sad", agreed Mary sympathetically.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Michael
Date: 28 Feb 12 - 01:33 PM

"I'll buy you a new bra", said Tom sportively

"This Elizabethan collar is making me sore", said Tom roughly.

"I'm going to marry a footballer",said Victoria waggishly.

"One who plays for Tottenham?" I asked spuriously.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 28 Feb 12 - 04:21 PM

"I thought Clapton's act was hopeless" she cried hysterically.
"He's better with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker," he screamed.

"The paintwork on my car has lost all its gloss" said Tom charismatically.

"And there I saw thousands of amphibians... it looked like one of them was making a speech!" he said neutrally.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 09:18 AM

We've had a power cut, has anyone got a lantern? Tom asked tortuously

I've got laryngitis, he croaked

You know that was the last thing on my mind,
Tom Paxton sang ultimately

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 02:07 PM

"I wish I had a motorized bicycle," Tom moped.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 29 Feb 12 - 02:21 PM

"I'd rather save for a Vincent", foreshadowed Mary blackly.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 01 Mar 12 - 10:50 AM

I've missed my flight, he said plaintively

Which kind of aircraft?

I was going by Boeing, he said with a spring in his step


Ah, Spring! Time for some gardening, he said earthily

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Genie
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 02:53 PM

Too many to mention separately, but some of these are laugh-out-loud funny!
(And some of you are clearly deranged.) ; )




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"I have the ability to foresee events that are yet to come," the oracle professed sibilantly.

"That was in the past. We need to look to the future," she advised, tensely.


"Oh, where, oh where can my tuning fork be?" she sang pitchily.


"I'm proud my name is Gingrich," the candidate averred, though sounding neutral.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Genie
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 02:56 PM

"You're adding a fourth Golden Girl instead of just us three?" Betty, Bea and Estelle asked ruefully.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 03:03 PM

pitchily?

I didn't know it was allowable to make up your own words, Mr Happy commented unknowingly

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 03:56 PM

"It's absolutely imperative!" incanted Immanuel categorically.

"It is de definitive statement of my belief" he decreed.

"I always make money when I sell my writings", she said, never at a loss for words.

"This cave painting is highly symbolic, it's almost writing" said the archaeologist prescriptively.

"But this Cretan script is neither frpm the Minoan period nor the Mycaenian", replied Tom non- linearly.

"I'm having a coronary!" he gasped heartily.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Genie
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 12:20 AM

Happy, "pitchy" is a word used ubiquitously on singing competition shows and by a lot of vocal coaches. They use it to mean the singer's vocals were not consistently pitch-perfect, i.e., their pitch tended to waver.    So the adverbial form would be "pitchily."

It may be slang, but it seems to be pretty common in usage these days.   (Actually, the word "pitchy" has been in the dictionary for a long time as an adjective referring to the substance pitch - e.g. meaning resembling, full of, or smeared with pitch. Or it can mean dark, as in pitch black.)

I'm betting there are other adverbs that have been contributed in this thread that would also count as slang or neologisms.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: meself
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 01:04 AM

"'Pitchy'?" he questioned genially.

"It's a word", she/he replied, too happy altogether.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: meself
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 01:17 AM

"I better put this on; I'm spilling booze all down my front," he said imbibiously.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Michael
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 08:20 AM

"Be a brave chicken", said Tom encouraging.

"Oh come on chicken, I'll take you out for dinner", said Tom entreatingly.

"It'll be fun" he enthused enjoyably.

"Too late now, I'm taking the other 144" he said engrossed.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: DMcG
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 09:11 AM

My daughter has just done one completely unintentionally, when she said that someone denying being in a car accident was unabashed.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 12:58 PM

"Pitchy: like or characteristic of pitch; smeared with pitch; abounding in pitch; black", he adjudged in Chambers.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 03:42 PM

"You've got something in your eye" beamed Tom, remotely.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Genie
Date: 03 Mar 12 - 07:25 PM

Good one, DMcG.

Paul, you're right that that's the older usage of the term "pitchy," but that definition doesn't work for the Tom Swifty I posted.


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"I guess I'll have to play cards by myself," Niles sighed solitarily.''

"Great hips!" Theodore exclaimed rosily as he sipped his herbal tea.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 04 Mar 12 - 09:40 AM

It wouldn't worry me either way Genie- the more inappropriate the verb or adverb, the better!

"I'm a specialist in spiders' teeth" said Tom incidentally.
"And I'm a vet specialising in spiders" replied Mary insecurely.

"This engine has a chimney at each end" said Tom fairly. "But this one has a truck for fuel and water behind it" replied Mary tenderly.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 04 Mar 12 - 10:54 AM

I heard that soldiers in India used their sun hats as urinals,
Tom informed us pithily

I'm having problems unfastening your bra, he said, groping for words

So you're an expert in dog training? I am! She barked

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 04 Mar 12 - 02:03 PM

I couldn't give a hoot! the ornithologist said owlishly

Every time I open my mouth, some fool speaks,
said the teacher unthinkingly

Here's a painting I did in Truro,
it's a Cornish pastiche, said Tom artfully

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Genie
Date: 05 Mar 12 - 05:38 AM

"I need to buy a cedar chest," Marie said, in a truncated statement.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Genie
Date: 05 Mar 12 - 05:41 AM

"Great moustache, Salvador!" exclaimed Celia surrealistically!


"Jane and I have been lovers for years," George intimated.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Michael
Date: 05 Mar 12 - 10:40 AM

"I would guess there are around 300 Tory MPs" he said conservatively.

"And a handful of them others in the coalition", he added, liberally.

"What about the socialists?" I asked to labour the point.

"Any UKIP?" Tom asked sleepily.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: meself
Date: 05 Mar 12 - 10:56 AM

"I'll take a quarter-bushel of those apples," he said peckishly.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: meself
Date: 05 Mar 12 - 10:57 AM

"I want you to get rid of that old horse," she nagged.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Michael
Date: 05 Mar 12 - 04:35 PM

"I most certainly will not while I can still ride him bareback", he replied with unbridled passion.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Michael
Date: 05 Mar 12 - 05:02 PM

"Did you hear the chickens sing last night?" Tom enquired.

"No, but I heard them at prayer", I replied enchanted.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 06 Mar 12 - 12:27 PM

I've forgotten the magic word to loosen the ropes,
groaned the escapologist, spellbound

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Genie
Date: 06 Mar 12 - 08:02 PM

"Bee bee bop'm da da shoo bee doot'n wah wah bah bay," warbled Ella scatalogically.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Michael
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 06:28 AM

"Et tu?" Asked Caesar brutalized.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Michael
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 10:11 AM

"I see we are only posting one at a time now" he said rationally.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: meself
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 10:56 AM

"I just saw the twenty-fourth letter of the alphabet!" he said excitedly.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Michael
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 03:39 PM

"And I know where to find the next one" he added wisely.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 02:04 AM

"Captain, I wish you wouldn't sink your ship quite so frequently" said the Admiral recklessly.

"I slept with that Edwina Currie" said tom dictatorially.

"Catherine is from India" he said delicately.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Michael
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 06:17 AM

"Catherine likes cold meats, cheeses and of course pakoras and samosas." he added delicately too.

Subject: RE: Ever play 'Tom Swifty'?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 12:15 PM

How dare you say I'm puerile! He shrieked childishly

Bah! Tom bleated sheepishly

Are there any vacancies for a baritone in the singing group?
She enquired