Puzzle Description:

...I want to be in it. Paraprosdokians are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part frequently humorous.

#1: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Apr 19, 2013

Great puzzle. I didn't know there was a name for these things. What a mouthful. Fun solve.

Ditto Norma + Thanks!

me too!

Very cool image Travis. I had the good fortune of being in a friends will. He named me executor and left all of his estate to me. It wasn't a huge sum of money but he had some cool things as well. He had pre-arranged his funeral,so I didn't have a lot to look after. This was a man that I worked with for several years and when he retired I looked after him,helped him move to an apartment,took him to his doctors appointments and did his grocery shopping for him. I didn't do these things with the hopes of anything,I just did it cause he was a good friend. Sometimes it pays to be nice to people.:)

I was expecting: Where there's a will, there's a long-lost relative ready to contest it.

thanks all :)
norma and jota,didn't know about a name either until the other day when a friend e-mailed me :)
aldege, sorry about your friend..that's what friends do is help each other when needed :)
kurt and john, haha :)

I make these all the time; often it's unplanned, because I tend to interpret things literally, so I'll read an ambiguous statement in the way it *wasn't* intended.

(Paraprosdokians, not wills)

kristen (lol) :)

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