A rather brilliant one: "This poem peaks my curiosity." Before you throw a fit of pique, bear in mind that the word "peaks" makes perfect sense in this case.

A victim of an unwanted sexual advance, discussing how his male antagonist lured him to his home: "He was very good about me spilling my heart on my sleeve."

A female tech prodigy to a manager trying to get her to speed up her coding on the television show Blindspot: "Rome wasn't burned in a day."

Fox News Report: "The Internet has been ripe with protest." Make no ripples with rifles.

Found in a query form a budding novelist: "The advice sounded like it came right out of a fortunate cookie." Unlucky cookies give bad advice.

A sportscaster describing a problem he suffered when playing minor league baseball in Connecticut: "I couldn't choose between the Yankees and the Red Sox because I didn't have a pony in that fight."

Sportswriter Ron Sirak passed along this remark from an official discussing some new rules of golf: "I will explain this in a way the lame man can understand." What women say when they perform the feminine version of "mansplaining".

An ex-convict talking to a Cape Cod Times reporter about his effort to go straight: "Going back to prison is always on the tip of my mind."

Audrey on Twin Peaks: "Laura had a sweet tooth for nose candy."

Tim Traub said, "Silence rained...." And we all got wet.