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Topia!: Recreation: Humor: Wordplay (202)
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Words and Stuff - A occasional column on words and word play. Fun-with-words.com - Dedicated to amusing quirks, peculiarities, and oddities of the English language. Stink Pink - Questions have answers with two rhyming words. Piece of Pi MadLibs - Site featuring a collection of madlibs. The Collective Noun Page - Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'. Mockok.com - A large collection of palindromes, focusing on palindromic single sentences. Currently over 2,000 archived. The Palindromist Magazine - An offline journal for people who write and enjoy palindromes. Phobias - Article lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia-- fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth. Janet's Wordplay Site - Child-oriented articles, puzzles, and quizzes about having fun with words. Smurf the Web - The WebSmurfer will translate any web page into Smurf jargon. Wireless Power Word Game - Challenging word jumbles posted every week. AwayMessages.com - Away messages for you to use on such services as AOL, AIM, and ICQ. Acronym Finder - Searchable database of primarily computer, technology and military acronyms and abbreviations. Includes the Acronym Finder Random Systematic Buzz Phrase Projector Acronym Generator (AFRSBPPAG). Dislexicon Word Generator - Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them. Wordage: The Game of Words - Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths. Wordies on the Web - Translate these arrangements of letters, numbers and/or symbols into a familiar phrase, saying or cliché. SadMan Software: Wordplay - Software for the word-puzzle enthusiast. "Oh my God! There's an axe in my head." - How to say this phrase in various languages. The Atlantic Online: Lost in Translation - Article explores the then-available online translation programs and their strengths and shortcomings. Some humorous examples of mistranslated phrases. Unwords.com - A collection of made-up words and definitons created by everyday people, out of necessity or for humor. The Devil's Dictionary Random Definitions - Quotes from Ambrose Bierce's satirical definition selected at random. Complete text also available. Humour Articles - Collection of various forms of wordplay compiled from media and the web. Why Ask Why, Computers' Daft Definitions and Deft Definitions Collection included. The Devil's Dictionary 2000 - Humorous and satirical word definitions with an up-to-date spin. Jim Kalb's Palindrome Connection - A collection of palindromes, phrases that spell the same forwards as backwards, with links to relevant resources on the web and elsewhere. Sources of the word YAHOO - Claims that Jonathan Swift used various words that look or sound like "Yahoo", including Chinese, Greek, and Russian. Confuzzled Dictionary - This is an online dictionary of strange and bizarre words. Feel free to browse or add your own. Language Fun - Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances. Dictionary Of Wordplay - A collection of puns, tomswiftys, doofinisms, jokes, tongue-twisters, double entendres, homonyms, and homophones. Funny Names Site - Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats to make you smile. Dead Name Game - The object is to slightly alter the name of a deceased celebrity to reflect their passing. Accepts submissions. Text Messages - A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages. Beggar's Opera and its Sanskrit Wordplay - Offers linguistical evidence that John Gay's classic contains wordplay based on the ancient Hindu language. Cryptic Quoter - Functional online cryptogram machine and solver. Cryptagram - Cryptagram is the Windows version of CryptoQuote and WordSearch. Opundo - Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, sdounops and other humour. The Word Spy - Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries. Dave's Fun Words - Categorized list of words which are fun to say. Fun With Words - Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia. Words Ending in -gry - Guess the three English words ending in -gry. The first two are given, but the third? Phrasalogistics - The way in which words and phrases are combined to have a new meaning. Loquacious Lipograms - Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter. The Hooter List - Joe Bob Briggs offers a list of synonyms for the female breast. Gadzillion Things to Think About - 10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions. Kael's Rhetorical Questions - Questions which may never have an answer. LazrChet's Rhetorical Questions - Example: What's another word for thesaurus? Answers to Rhetorical Questions - This time, somebody has the answers to the questions.... Stupid Questions - Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions. Why Ask Why? - A series of rhetorical questions about life. Scorpio Tales - Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English. WordBall - The viewer competes against a computer in a baseball-like word-game. Name Wordplay - Example: If Yoko Ono married Sonny Bono, she'd be Yoko Ono Bono. Sanskrit Humor - Wordplay in, about or involving Sanskrit. Obfuscations of Celebrated Oracular Utterings - Rewords familiar phrases, idioms, and aphorisms with grandiose, academic words and descriptions. Fictionary Dictionary - Online edition of the popular parlor game for word lovers. Improve your vocabulary while making up phony definitions for obscure words. Condit's Linguistical Dilemma - Shows how the Latin word, "condit", typifies the political woes of Gary Condit in the Chandra Levy matter. Lost in Translation - See what happens when an English phrase is translated by computer back and forth between 5 different languages. Confusion results. The Tate Family Members - Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name. Untruisms and One-Trick Words - Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can only be used within a cliche'. Word-Jumble.com - Unscramble mixed-up letters dealing with sports, books, music and miscellaneous. Click on the scrambles to find their answers. Odford English Dictionary - A collection of humorous new meanings of words in the English language. Visitors can submit their own entries. Ms-Sam-Antics - Daffynitions, puns, haiku and word play. Accepts contributions. Word Games Software - Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows. Mad Ape Den - Articles and messageboards on a variety of topics with all words over three letters off-limits. Bovilexics.com - Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts. Vocab Vitamins - A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it. Word Soup Without Vowels - A 12x13 diagram contains various letters in it--without vowels. Find as many words in the diagram and e-mail in your answers. Also Spanish-oriented. Name That Porno - Take the title of a standard movie and rename it with a porno theme. Submissions accepted. Travel Games - Family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy to challenging. No additional implements needed.
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