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"Oh my God! There's an axe in my head."
http://yamara.com/junk/xl970512.html
How to say this phrase in various languages.
A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words.html
Includes book of word records, palindromic words, pangrams, most beautiful and ugly words, Scrabble words, and Bible word trivia.
Answers to Rhetorical Questions
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/gradgrind.html
Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects.
Before and After
http://www.bridge.net/~labush/lalmwk20.htm
The object is to fill in the blanks. Example: '____ day ____' becomes 'Sun day light', that is, 'Sunday' and 'Daylight'.
Bovilexics.com
Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.
Corsinet.com
Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes.
Dislexicon Word Generator
http://www.robobunny.com/cgi-bin/dislexicon/dlc
Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.
Divinest-Sense.com: Tom Swifties
http://www.without-feathers.com/bits/fun-and-games/reads/tom-swifties.php
Definition of this style of play on words, a collection of original and previously-known examples, and links to other collections.
Euler's Day Off
Rearrange a five-by-five grid of letters to form words in crossword fashion. There is a daily puzzle with no registration.
Family Travel Games
http://www.familytravelgames.com
A book of family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy to challenging. No additional implements needed.
Faulkner or Machine Translation?
http://reverent.org/sounds_like_faulkner.html
A quiz to determine whether literary passages are the Faulkner originals or ones machine-translated from German into English.
Fun With Words
Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.
Fun-with-words.com
http://www.fun-with-words.com/
Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.
Funny Names Site
http://users.breathe.com/ionabigyot/
Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats.
Funnyname.com
A collection of amusing, interesting, strange, and occasionally rude names from the phone book.
Gadzillion Things to Think About
http://www.gadzillionthings.net/
10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions.
Humour Articles
http://www.geocities.com/vasudevanvrv/articles.htm
Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams.
Keepers of Lists
http://www.keepersoflists.org/
A large archive of amusing lists. Lists can be created, added to and voted on by the public.
Language Fun
http://home.planet.nl/~blade068/languagefun
Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances.
LazrChet's Rhetorical Questions
http://users.owt.com/lazrchet/humor/rhetoric.htm
Questions designed to open one's mind, even if no answer is expected.
Loquacious Lipograms
http://phrontistery.info/lipogram.html
Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.
Lost in Translation
See what happens when an English phrase is translated by computer back and forth between 5 different languages. Confusion results.
Ms-Sam-Antics
Oxymora, famous last words and Confucius Says are just some of the wordplay included.
National Public Radio
http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle/
New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge.