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The previous thread has trespassed into forbidden territory, so here is a restart:
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Not "I'm in the choir!" Tom said bass-ly?
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"Ah! *That brother!" Tom said arcanely.
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Ooooh, good one Coffeebean
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"I like cheese", Tom said meekly.
CAUTION: these are rude
"You arouse me", said Tom, longingly.
"I'm coming", Tom ejaculated.
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The inmate is escaping down the fire escape! Tom said condescendingly.
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"I might as well accept it, I just love Greek drama," he said philosophically.
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"You always fail to score at tennis." he said, lovingly.
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I am not a witch! Thomasina said charmingly.
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"I might as well accept it, I just love geek drama," he said bitingly.
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"What shall I do with this sow's ear?" he enquired silkily.
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"I might as well accept it, I just love geek drama," he said bitingly ~ etaoin
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"I used to live here," Tom said forebodingly.
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His heartrate increased and his throat tightened as he saw her emerge from the dense fog. "Hello, my love", he said thickly. 
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A group of friends were sorting out a box of letters which had become scrambled. Tom was in charge.
“If we tackle the job alphabetically we’ll soon find the first three letters,” Tom see-sawed ably.
“The fourth letter is repeated,” he declared deedily.
“Finding the fifth shouldn’t be difficult,” Tom said easily.
“Goodness! The sixth letter is big enough to crawl into!” said Tom ineffably.
“Bother, I’ve – er - dropped the eighth one,” ‘e said ‘altingly.
“The ninth letter looks well,” he observed seeingly.
“The tenth one looks like a bird,” jeered Tom jadedly.
“Eleventh - better after fifteenth,” he agreed abbreviatedly.
Picking up the twelfth, “We’ll probably go here,” grinned Tom devilishly.
“Thirteen – this is unlucky for some,” he mourned emphatically.
“If we can find enough of the fourteenth letter, we could use it to separate the others,“ Tom typed enthusiastically
“The fifteenth letter looks good when it brackets the twentieth,” owned Tom otiosely
“Isn’t the sixteenth one absolutely souper?” he posed peaceably.
“Would any of you wish to stand in line for the seventeenth?” he questioned quizzically.
“The eighteenth letter, is plural,” Tom rolled out artfully.
“The nineteenth is essential,” Tom squeaked sibilantly.
“Anyone for the twentieth?” he poured out the question, leafily.
The twenty-first was missing: “This is no use,” Tom uttered ululatingly.
Tom brandished the twenty-second above his head. “Long live the difference,” he voiced Frenchly
“The twenty-third is twice as bad as the twenty-first,” Tom wailed world-wearlily. or was it Word-windedly?
“This shows the place of the twenty-fourth letter,” he exclaimed markedly.
“We’ll keep quiet about the last two,” Tom mouthed, wisely and keeping his tongue still.
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RhubyC - someone give a me hat, that I may doff it!
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Rhuby - I AM impressed! Can't help but wonder how long it took you - and were you at work when you did it? 
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In reply to:
"I might as well accept it, I just love Greek drama," he said philosophically.
EDIT: Was that too subtle?
Poor wofa had to Aeschylus "ask all us" a second time!
Wofa, it was not too subtle! Just a tragedy we didn't acknowledge the way Euripides puns out.
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Conversation with a Greek tailor (I'm sure the copyright has _long_ since run out on these) :
"Can Eumenides pants?"
"Sure. Did Euripides?"
"Unfortunately. Alcibiades, so I'll have something to wear in the meantime..."
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Can't help but wonder how long it took you - and were you at work when you did it?
Many thanks, Nancyk - and sjm and Zed - for your kind words. As to the above query: about 25 minutes, and yes. 
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"Okay, I suppose you did have it harder than me," admitted Goldy forbearingly.
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"I've taken up knitting" Tom intoned in a pearly(purly) voice.
"I like baseball, basketball, hockey and soccer" Tom noted sportily.
"I don't like classical fairly tales" claimed Tom grimmly.
"Wool embroidery is a waste of time" Tom declaired cruelly.
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"There'll be no nuclear plant in MY neighborhood!" said Tom reactively.
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"It was a really great party" Tom admitted bashfully.
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I love to sing high notes, Tom sang shatteringly
Gregorian music is my favorite, Tom chanted in a sing-song.
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"I never wear fancy woollens," said Tom in a crotchety voice
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"I just can't stop eating these North African dates," said Tom moorishly.
"Ughh! That was a Seville Orange!" Tom complained bitterly.
"The answer's a lemon," Tom said sourly.
"Would you like an olive?" he enquired oilily.
"I can shoot an apple off the top of your head," Tom boasted tellingly.
"That's a nice pear you've got," he told her, double-entendredly.
"Over here, we call them 'marrows', not 'squash,'" Tom replied crushingly.
- and a sweetener to finish with:-
"Oooh! look! some one's given me some sugary Turkish sweets!" Tom exclaimed delightedly.
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Re:"Would you like an olive?" he enquired oilily.
"Yes, please" Tom replied unctuously.
sweet kisses to you, dear commando, i couldn't figure out how to use unctuously, till you provided the opening!
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Would you like an olive?" he enquired oilily.
Yes, please" Tom replied unctuously.
"I'll take mine with a lemon twist," his companion said acidly.
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"Martini's? I like mine very dry." Tom said brutishly.
"I like my scotch on the rocks" Tom commented icily.
"Just a splash of mixer" Tom requested gingerly.
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"I'm on the wagon," said Tom drily.
“I don’t go to parties,” said Tom unabashedly.
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"I'll bet we could sail in right past the Harbor Police", said Tom craftily.
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"The prisoner is going down the stairs," said Tom condescendingly.
"The prisoner is going to work on stencils today," said Tom contemplatingly.
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"The prisoner may not stand," said Tom conceitedly.
"But," said Tom contestingly, "The prisoner is taking an exam right now."
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not stand," said Tom conceitedlygood one! welcome, Tross! 
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"The prisoner will go to the island off Greece," said Tom concretely.
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"The prisoner will go to the island off Greece," said Tom concretely.
wasn't that Shakespeare that said that? or was it Bacon...
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So which is the Swifty?
Help, I'm hyperventilating, said Tom breathlessly
Oh, I'm hyperventilating, said Tammy breathily
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"Come under this arbor with me, i have a secret to tell you" Tom said sub rosa.
"Let's walk down the primrose path" said Tom in floraly tones.
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"I bought this painting at an auction," said Tom morbidly.
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"Hey, what a coincidence... I bought this statue at the auction," said Tom forbiddingly.
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"well, the auction is over" he said, bidding them goodnight.
there's one of them double letter thingys...
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"I can't drive if the car's got a gear-stick", he said automatically.
"I used to be a delivery driver," he said, truculently.
"Bother, the car has picked up a puncture," he said, tiredly
(I have a feeling that one's already been done - if so, sorry!)
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"I'm without wheels" Tom said flatly.
as indeed i am, my little madza having up and died on me
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my little mazda having up and died on me
That mazda bin a great inconvenience for you, helen.
Which reminds me:
"Just a second, I'm in the bathroom - I'll be out right away," said Tom, inconveniently.
In case some of you USns don't get that, I should explain that the public urinals in England are called "conveniences"
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"I spend much of my time in the bathroom," said Tom, lavishly.
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Help, I'm hyperventilating, said Tom breathlessly
Oh, I'm hyperventilating, said Tammy breathily
so which is the swifty?
I'm seriously asking, sorry for being unbelievably dim. Is it when it is the opposite of the meaning, the same as the meaning, or is it just when it has something vaguely to do with it? or what?
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I think if you can make any connection at all, it's a swifty.
he said electrically, relationship-wise.
is there a pro-nection?
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I f I understand the system aright, dody, it is the first of the two you offer, although the second one is pretty near - you'd get away with it in present company
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...but the most elegant ones somehow connect the adverb with the quotation, often in more than one way:
"I really don't care that there's a flower missing from my bouquet," said Tom lackadaisically.
"I'm certain I've done everything required to kill that vampire," said Tom painstakingly.
"Take that low-life petty crook downstairs," said the Judge condescendingly.
"I wish I hadn't lost my lawsuit," he sighed plaintively.
to adapt some recent examples.
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"That plank of wood is very smooth now" Tom said plainly.
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Catch me, J.D. said wryly.
... although the spelling bot refuses my adverb!
Hey! playing with that bot[botanical] could be another interesting word game. Its suggestions to perfectly admissible words are quite outworldly[oval], I notice wryly[Wu]. Etc...[etch]
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another interesting word game
Indeed. I could imagine a form of steganography. The message would seem to make no sense despite consisting of nothing but legitimate English words. Feed it to Ænigma and, poof! out comes clear text.
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That boat is leaving, Tom said sternly.
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Catch me, J.D. said wryly.
Bravo!!
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Let me try to improve my last one:
Noah, Noah don't leave me, said the unicorn, sternly.
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Thank you for your support. So here comes a new one :
You're dead, said Al, stiffly.
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“By my reckoning, you deserved that award”, added Tom diplomatically.
“Would the witness claim to have plumbed the depths?” lead Tom divertingly.
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“Your doll-collecting interest is beyond my ken,” said Tom barbily.
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"you've been hammering away on that one", he said constructively.
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"Isn't it a shame what they did to my statue," said Saddam, downcast.
(or maybe that should be
"I'll never be happy throwing pillows at people again," Tom said, downcast.)
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"I don't care if he's in a hurry -- I'm not changing lanes," said Tom impassively.
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"Why did he change doctors?" she asked impatiently.
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