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Challenge: Can you take a cliche phrase and change one word to make it funny or ridiculous?

Example: 'More fun than a barrel of monkeys.' becomes 'More fun than a barrel of pickles.'.

Posted - November 8, 2021
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  • 13395
    Time heals all goons

    A prune is the best medicine

    Another day another noodle

    To thine own self be glue
      November 8, 2021 10:31 AM MST
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  • 44649
      November 8, 2021 1:17 PM MST
    4

  • 10662
    Don't smile over spilt milk.

    The pasta's on the wall

    Ignorance is required

    All for one and beer for all

    Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and sleepy.

      November 8, 2021 12:36 PM MST
    5

  • 44649
      November 8, 2021 1:20 PM MST
    6

  • 13277
    Time wounds all heels

    Support the right to arm bears

    And BTW, your example is backwards. A barrel of monkeys is much funnier than a barrel of pickles, which is mostly full of brine.
      November 8, 2021 12:47 PM MST
    4

  • 44649
    I will have to research the pickle/brine ratio. That should keep me busy for a few minutes.
      November 8, 2021 1:19 PM MST
    5

  • 16826
    Find a penny, pick it up and all the day you'll have a penny.
      November 8, 2021 2:59 PM MST
    6

  • 53524

     

    Time flies when you’re having fun. 
    Time flies when you’re having none.
    Time flies when you’re having some.
    Time flaws when you’re having fun.


    Time and tide wait for no man.
    Time and buses wait for no man.
    Time and again, wait for no man.
    Time and tide wait on no man.

    Be kind, rewind.
    Be kind, remind.
    Be kind, reward.
    Be kind, recline.

    If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.
    If you can’t pay something nice, don’t pay anything at all.
    If you can’t say something twice, don’t say anything at all, if you can’t say something twice, don’t say anything at all.
    If you can’t say something nice, then say anything at all.

    ~

      November 8, 2021 7:11 PM MST
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  • 53524

     

      An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
    An app a day keeps the doctor away.
    An apple a day keeps the doctor hungry.

      November 8, 2021 7:15 PM MST
    6

  • 23641

    The sun will come out gay.
      November 8, 2021 8:04 PM MST
    7

  • 11087
    People who live in glass houses should get dressed in the basement. 
      November 9, 2021 7:02 PM MST
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  • 53524

     

      Foul, foul, foul! This is a glaring and flagrant disregard for the rules! I struggled and struggled to keep to changing just one word of original expressions, heck, I could have come up with dozens of entries by changing several words!  Grrrrrrr. 


      November 9, 2021 9:10 PM MST
    6

  • 11087
    What can I say? I'm a rebel. 
      November 10, 2021 2:45 AM MST
    5

  • 53524

     

      Yet you won’t throw down with Randy D?


      Some rebel! I demand an investigation! Grrrrrrrr. 

    ~

      November 10, 2021 6:20 AM MST
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  • 6023
    Decades ago, I had a friend who insisted the phrase was "More fun than a barrel of money".

    I have to admit, that does seem more fun than a bunch of monkeys who are angry from being couped up in a barrel.
      November 10, 2021 10:28 AM MST
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  • 53524
    (couped cooped)

      May 29, 2023 6:43 PM MDT
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  • 23641


    Read between the pines.


    EDIT: I just realized I find it neither funny nor ridiculous; I like the idea. Oh, well.  :)


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    This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at May 29, 2023 6:44 PM MDT
      May 29, 2023 12:37 PM MDT
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  • 2132
    Quick! It takes one to know done!
      May 29, 2023 12:43 PM MDT
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  • 10052
    A penny saved is a penny burned. 
      May 29, 2023 4:38 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    People who live in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones.
      May 29, 2023 4:54 PM MDT
    4