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`Swifties' Are Back, Tom Said Pungently
From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19940721
Author:Rob Kyff
`Jaws was a great movie," Tom said superficially.
"I hear a clock in this tomb," Tom said cryptically.
"We're having scaloppine again today," Tom said revealingly.
Many of you will recognize these punny sentences as "Tom Swifties. They're based on the writing style in the Tom Swift books, a series of adventure novels for young adults written by Edward Stratemeyer in the early 1900s.
In Stratemeyer's formulaic dialogues, Tom and his friends always said something "quickly" or "wisely" or "angrily," and soon wags were concocting humorous "Tom Swifties" of their own.
With some help ...
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