Words Gone Wild Quotes

“Whom”
― Jim Bernhard, Words Gone Wild: Puns, Puzzles, Poesy, Palaver, Persiflage, and Poppycock

“blithely”
― Jim Bernhard, Words Gone Wild: Puns, Puzzles, Poesy, Palaver, Persiflage, and Poppycock

“Wit has truth in it; wise cracking is simply calisthenics with words.” —Dorothy Parker For”
― Jim Bernhard, Words Gone Wild: Puns, Puzzles, Poesy, Palaver, Persiflage, and Poppycock

“. Even though nowadays you can say the words any way you like, some of them may at least give you pause: In the halcyon days of internecine tergiversation, a concupiscent chargé d'affaires at the Tanzanian consulate had the onerous assignment of arranging assignations amongst Zbigniew Brzezinski, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Deng Xiao Peng, Angela Merkel, and Dmitri Medvedev. “What a concatenation of blackguards,” expatiated this amanuensis, who was a bona fide dilettante. “It's a veritable farrago of inextricable idiosyncrasies. They will discuss laissez-faire, hypotenuses, synapses, kamikazes, Clio, Melpomene, Mnemosyne, and other such viragoes, before arriving, apocalyptically, at the dénouement. A priori, it is de rigueur that I not err, though embarrassed and harassed vituperatively by such vagaries.” Grasping”
― Jim Bernhard, Words Gone Wild: Puns, Puzzles, Poesy, Palaver, Persiflage, and Poppycock

“The old man with the flaccid face and dour expression grimaced when asked if he were conversant with zoology, mineralogy, or the culinary arts. ‘Not to be secretive,’ he said, ‘I may tell you that I'd given precedence to the study of genealogy. But, since my father's demise, it has been my vagary to remain incognito because of an inexplicable, lamentable, and irreparable family schism. It resulted from a heinous crime, committed at our domicile by an impious scoundrel. To err is human… but his affair was so grievous that only my inherent acumen and consummate tact saved me.”
― Jim Bernhard, Words Gone Wild: Puns, Puzzles, Poesy, Palaver, Persiflage, and Poppycock

“irregular verbs.”
― Jim Bernhard, Words Gone Wild: Puns, Puzzles, Poesy, Palaver, Persiflage, and Poppycock

“cul de sac.”
― Jim Bernhard, Words Gone Wild: Puns, Puzzles, Poesy, Palaver, Persiflage, and Poppycock

“Torquemada,”
― Jim Bernhard, Words Gone Wild: Puns, Puzzles, Poesy, Palaver, Persiflage, and Poppycock

“treacle”
― Jim Bernhard, Words Gone Wild: Puns, Puzzles, Poesy, Palaver, Persiflage, and Poppycock