Heard they might be planning to trim back the silver and gold content of the medallion alloys for the next Olympics. All I can say is:
Don't meddle with the medal metal!
the set-up line above is an untruth, but then again you never know!
Any more triple-homophonic sentences out there?
You can test your mettle by opposing the attempts to meddle with the medal metal.
Karat caret? Care it? Not I.
I vote for Dr. Bill. The Brits (and colonies)'re gonna have a hard time pronouncing 'medal' as 'metal.' (or 'mettle', for that matter)
Aw, Faldage...why'd'ja have to leap to the fore with four for?
belm, if you're around:
in school we learned something about a green worm moving toward a green glass, and it sounded like "Une vare vare vas vare un vare vare"[sic]
Can you write that out in french??
Un ver vert va vers un verre vert.
Can you bear to bare your arm for a needle, or will you just take a Bayer aspirin?
With full credit to my word-hero, Douglas Hofstaeder, here's a meaningful sentence:
Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
...and then there's always
Tom where Tim had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the Professor.
which does make sense if punctuated properly. Similarly with
That that is is that that is not is not that that is is not that that is not that that is not is not that that is is not that so?
Not very deep thinking, either of them, but there it is.
I'll walk down the aisle on my favorite isle!
Ha, allo baronia, I see Bean, Rouspeteur and I now have a fourth countryman on Board.
Très bien the translation. Did you take French in school?
Ha, allo baronia
A ringing welcome -- or more specifically, a [bel][belle][bell]-ringing welcome
Cornelius the Hound - Concur fer short liked ta see the sea of Cee. Himself and his peer, Pierre, sat on the pier - the pair of them chewen a pear (pared) and a currant concurrently - watchen the current and counten their currency wonderen if they had enough mony fer the current issue of "How ta Beat the To or Too Sindrum in Three Easy Lessons"
>The Brits (and colonies)'re gonna have a hard time pronouncing 'medal' as 'metal.' (or 'mettle', for that matter)
Thanks Anna, saves me pointing out that there are no homophones to my ears!
a) medal - pronounced - med-al or med-ul
b) metal - promounced - met-al or met-ul
c) mettle - pronounced - mett-ul (only subtly different to b)
How about judges that meddle?
Quoth jo, regarding W'ON's intitial post,
>The Brits (and colonies)'re gonna have a hard time pronouncing 'medal' as 'metal.' (or 'mettle', for that matter)
Elvis Presley said it: Don't meddle withthe property of the US male.
actually tamper, I know, but anything for a pun.
Has anyone else noticed the unique aroma of money? There's a fresh smell to new currency, and a sharp metallic smell of a heaping handful of coins.
Do you too sense the two scents clinging to cents and bills? (Are you sense-a-ble?)
>How about judges that meddle?
Yep, that would work for me - med-ul
Relying on established procedures, presidents give precedence to precedents.
Who knew the zoo had a new gnu?
Did you take French in school?
Yes. And now I take it everywhere I go!
Who told Hugh to hew the tree of golden hue?
As the illiterate ram said, when the flock of sheep shied away from him,
"Stop! I could use youse ewes!"
Don Juan prays for praise as he preys on the gals. (Well, that's probably not true, but it works)
The rays of sun were so strong, they managed to raze the building that my father did raise so many years ago!
About the dyslexic
Did you see where she spelt sea with a cee?
and what a horror story
The bear ate the contents of the bier, leaving bare
(actually, even i hear slight difference between bear and bier-- but curiously, they share a root!)