“Tom Swifties” are described in GAMES magazine as “lines of dialogue ending with a whimsically appropriate adverb”.
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GAMES and Games World of Puzzles have published seven original collections by me, in which the speaker is not Tom Swift, but:
1. a criminal, in “Crime Swifties”, December 2003, for example:
“Sure, I have a history of driving to endanger, Your Honor, but I’ve never had an accident,” the defendant said, r___lessly.
(see answers below)
2. an animal, in “Animal Swifties”, March 2004:
“All I ever do is work, work, work!” said the bee, d___ingly.
3. a sports figure, in “Sports Swifties”, May 2004:
“It’s a ground rule double, you moron! Go back to second!” said the umpire to the runner, de___ingly.
4. a mechanic, in “Swifty’s Garage”, August 2004:
“Sorry about the misunderstanding, but your car is at the junkyard, turned into a cube of scrap metal,” Swifty said, c____ingly.
5. a politician, in “Political Swifties”, November 2004:
“It’s like the issue of what to have for breakfast – yesterday it was pancakes, today it was an Eggo,” the candidate responded, w_____ingly.
6. a worker, in “Swifty on the Job”, March 2006:
“Didn’t it ever occur to you to use a chemical drain cleaner?” the plumber asked, c______ally.
and 7. another “Swifty on the Job”, July 2007:
“Did it snow in here? No, that’s just the paint I scraped off the ceiling,” the painter said, f___ily.
1 RECKLESSLY 2 DRONINGLY 3 DEBASINGLY 4 CRUSHINGLY 5 WAFFLINGLY 6 CAUSTICALLY 7 FLAKILY
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