Croaks

[nq:1]A word game. It may have other names, but I know it as "Croaks" takes its name from this ... you going: "I'm coming," he **********. "There's no gold here. I'm going to look elsewhere," the prospector exclaimed. Your turn...[/nq]
Best known as Tom Swiftys after the stories about Tom Swift. 'I'm going camping' exclaimed Tom intently.
Google on 'Tom Swift' and I guarantee you'll turn u

[nq:2]A word game. It may have other names, but I ... I'm going to look elsewhere," the prospector exclaimed. Your turn...[/nq]
[nq:1]Best known as Tom Swiftys after the stories about Tom Swift. 'I'm going camping' exclaimed Tom intently.[/nq]
Croaks are not quite the same as Tom Swiftys.
Swiftys depend on the adverb ("intently" in your example).

Croaks depend on the verb (in

[nq:1]A word game. It may have other names, but I know it as "Croaks" takes its name from this ... you going: "I'm coming," he **********. "There's no gold here. I'm going to look elsewhere," the prospector exclaimed. Your turn...[/nq]
"Let us go home," she said crisply.
I first saw this game played some 40 years ago as an ongoing thing by one of the greatest Bay Area columnists, Herb Caen

[nq:2]Best known as Tom Swiftys after the stories about Tom Swift. 'I'm going camping' exclaimed Tom intently.[/nq]
[nq:1]Croaks are not quite the same as Tom Swiftys. Swiftys depend on the adverb ("intently" in your example). Croaks depend on the verb (in fact, there is no adverb in a croak).[/nq]
I consider this to be a friendly exercise in hair-splitting (he said sharply).
One way (

[nq:2]"There's no gold here. I'm going to look elsewhere," the prospector exclaimed. Your turn...[/nq]
[nq:1]"Let us go home," she said crisply.[/nq]
NO WIRE HANGERS. EVER!!
(And no adverbs in Croaks only in Swifties)

[nq:1]"Let us go home," she said crisply. I first saw this game played some 40 years ago as an ongoing ... first golf bell. You can take them from there. -YJ PS: Skitt from Hayward probably remembers some of this.[/nq]
No. I remember Herb Caen, but not that game. I don't think it was in the San Jose Mercury Herald.

Skitt (in Hayward, California)
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[nq:2]"Let us go home," she said crisply.[/nq]
[nq:1]NO WIRE HANGERS. EVER!![/nq]
Huh? Could you please explain - I'm totally ignorant of what you're referring to. And shouting it, no less.
-YJ

[nq:1]A word game. It may have other names, but I know it as "Croaks" takes its name from this sentence: "I'm dying," he croaked.[/nq]
The rest of us know these as "Tom Swifties", from the juvenile book series in which no character is ever ever reported to have said anything without there being an adverb to describe how he said it.

"I'll have a martini," said Tom dryly.

Stefa

[nq:2]"Let us go home," she said crisply. I first saw ... -YJ PS: Skitt from Hayward probably remembers some of this.[/nq]
[nq:1]No. I remember Herb Caen, but not that game. I don't think it was in the San Jose Mercury Herald.[/nq]
Skitt, he was in the Chronicle - SF type newspaper.

-YJ

[nq:2]No. I remember Herb Caen, but not that game. I don't think it was in the San Jose Mercury Herald.[/nq]
[nq:1]Skitt, he was in the Chronicle - SF type newspaper.[/nq]
Right, and we didn't subscribe to that one. That is what I was trying to imply. I lived in San Jose and Santa Clara then.

Skitt (in Hayward, California)
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