Rob’s Megaphone

A bicycle can’t stand alone; it is two tired.                                                                        
A will is a dead giveaway.
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
A backward poet writes inverse.
In a democracy it’s your vote that counts; in feudalism, it’s your Count that votes.
A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.
If you don’t pay your exorcist you can [...]

If uplift is the same as lift up, why are upset and set up opposite in meaning?
 
Why are pertinent and impertinent, canny and uncanny, and famous and infamous neither opposites nor the same?
 
How can raise and raze and reckless and wreckless be opposites when each pair contains the same sound?
 
Why does six, seven, eight, and [...]