Sublime

it was only Melissa who ate the granola and he was thinking very hard about which granola to buy, the orange and cranberry or the coconut and tropical fruit.

Mary, Queen of Scots, who is said to have had a team of ‘cadets’ lift up her long skirts whenever she prepared to tee off. Still, even she ran into a spot of bother herself, when her political enemies accused her of blatant heartlessness for playing a game of golf just hours after the murder of her second husband Lord Darnley.

malapropisms and spoonerisms

Susan Cornelia Clarke Warren,

(from the Latin butyrum for “butter”),

Richard Whiteley (‘Did the inventor of the door knocker win the no-bell prize?’)

WordNet—a specialized online thesaurus that is often used in AI research—lists

(And yet here I must confess that I am aware of two good double entendres that have made it into our dictionaries and have stayed there. The first is in a paperback dictionary at the entry for “tract” and references a boob joke from Monty Python and the Holy Grail: . The second is in our middle-school dictionary, at the entry for “cut.” It reads ,

‘How was he rubbish?’ I can’t help asking.