Go to this Word A Day Revisited Index
so you can see more of Mickey Bach's cartoons.

Here are several examples of wordplays for your pleasure.

• Irene changed her iPod's name to Titanic because it's syncing now.
• When chemists die, others barium.
• Jokes about German sausage are the wurst.
• Adam knows a guy who's addicted to brake fluid. He says he can stop any time.
• How does Moses make his tea? Hebrews it.
• Jane stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on her.
• This girl said she recognized Jim from the vegetarian club, but he said that he never met herbivore.
• Lisa is reading a book about anti-gravity and she just can't put it down.
• Tom did a theatrical performance about puns. It was a play on words.
• The doctor wrote in his medical report that Mike had type A blood, but it really was a type O mistake.
• The students are going on a class trip to the Coca-Cola factory and they hope there's no pop quiz.
• Sam didn't like his beard at first, then it grew on him.
• Did you hear about the cross-eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn't control her pupils?
• The nurse told Henry, "When you get a bladder infection, urine trouble."
• Sam's pencils keep breaking every time he tries to sharpen them; so, he has quit doing it anymore because broken pencils are pointless.
• Irene tried to catch some fog, but she mist.
• What do you call a dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary? A thesaurus.
• England has no kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool.
• Mark used to be a banker, but then he lost interest.
• Paul dropped out of communism class because of lousy Marx.
• All the toilets in New York's police stations have been stolen and so now the police have nothing to go on.
• Elizabeth got a job at a bakery because she kneaded dough.
• Haunted French pancakes give Liza the crêpes.
• Velcro — what a rip off!
• A cartoonist was found dead in his home. Details are sketchy.
• Venison for dinner again? Oh deer!
• The earthquake in Washington obviously was the government's fault.
• Ann was told that her father's will was a dead giveaway.