“First of all, let me point out that proxy is
the only word spelled that way.”
“My wife uttered the word proxy in her sleep
not long ago. The next day she said she had a nightmare.”
“There is nothing funny ha ha about proxy—unless,
of course, you say it 20 times really fast.”
“Did you know that proxy is an old Eskimo
word which they never use.”
“So what impact has proxy had on the world?
It has made the dictionary just a wee bit bigger.”
“The first word I ever spoke was proxy.
I was a senior in high school.”
“Actually, my dog can say proxy.
He says it whenever he has to go outside.”
“Growing up, I first came across the word proxy
in the Bible. It was written in the margin in pencil, verse…”
“We all know what proxy means.
Unfortunately we all can’t agree.”
“In fact, proxy is not really very funny
unless you misspell it.”
“Today proxy is so controversial that
people can’t even agree how to misspell it.”
“In the Garden of Eden, Eve was going to name one of the animals
proxy, but Adam said…
…‘No, save it for something that’s not so obvious.’”
…‘No, save it for something we can’t eat.’”
…‘No, wait until something really hairy comes along.’”
…‘I’m already using that word for some imponderable notion I have.‘”
“It’s an old Indian word. They use to say, don‘t
step in the proxy.”
“A friend tells me that the word proxy
comes from the Pig Latin ‘roxypa.‘”
“The first word actually heard coming from space was
proxy followed by ‘nanoo-nanoo.’”
“If you rearrange the letters in proxy,
you get ‘rypox’ (or whatever), which, as you know, …
…is nonsense.”
…makes as much sense as proxy.”
…is a misspelling of proxy.”
…is curious but hardly relevant.”
“I looked up proxy in the dictionary and it said…
…any idiot knows what proxy means.”
…there is no such word.”
…it comes from the Greek, which is why I don’t understand it.”
…it was short for ‘proxyapia.’ I looked up ‘proxyapia’and it wasn’t there.”
…see ‘proxyapia.’ I looked up ‘proxyapia’ and it said see ‘proxy.’”
o you are giving a speech and you want
to make a joke with a certain word and you can’t find it here (words that aren’t
funny, like dolphin, education, honor, and computer.) What do you do? Well,
there are several ways to make fun of any word… hence, any word is funny
(of course discretion demands that some words like cancer, lynching and genocide
not be used in jest.) Let’s suppose the word you want to have some fun with
is proxy (in the following sentences, substitute