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Does poetic license permit me to be poetically licentious?
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2015/04/14 - 2:18am

Seems so.

Do any similar sentences come to mind that use modified word pairs?

Ron Draney
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2015/04/14 - 3:25am

What good is being an executive if you never get to execute anybody?

Do leprechauns live in a leprecolony? (That one works better spoken than it does in print.)

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2015/04/14 - 12:41pm

Do infants enjoy infantry as much as (some) adults enjoy adultery?

Ron Draney
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2015/04/14 - 3:14pm

One I remembered after posting before, from the final season of Head of the Class, where Billy Connolly replaced Howard Hessman. After Billy is introduced to an attractive woman he'll be working with, he leeringly observes "Vice Principal, eh? How'd you like to be one of my principal vices?"

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2015/04/19 - 5:00pm

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy."

                                     — Tom Waits

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