A pigeon flew at me and made me duck.
I was excited by the bow and arrow, but I no longer get that quiver.
I wanted to write an alphabet in a boat, but I floundered at sea.
I got a dog and wanted us to have pet Latin names — he was going to be Canus, but my friend said “You can’t be Sirius.”
I like eating hot food in winter — last time, I thought it was chili.
They told us they were bison but I think we were buffaloed.
I asked the baker where the sun rose — he said “Look yeast.”
He built his novel from the ground up, and then missed a story.
I trapped a skunk in my house but he got me – it was instinct.
I like to read the comics at breakfast — they’re serial.
I can never get away from cats — they keep dogging me.
I wanted to play solo water polo but the pool was teeming.
My bird dog wanted to go hunting — I quailed.
My friend is so good at billiards he wears a fin — he’s a shark.
The spy told me about the growth on his face—I said, you’ve got a problem, that’s a mole.
He told me it was a good spot to sit and fish so I perched.
I helped the fisherman load his catch into his cart. When it got stuck, he said, “Put more mussel into it.”
When I asked the raptor expert which bird was the biggest, he replied, ”Well, all things being eagle …”
When the inventor was asked what was the heart of his paper engine, he replied, the manifold.
The door is ajar.