At Self Help Radio, we love synonyms. Sure, they're not as clever as homonyms, or as brainy as antonyms, but there's a peace & satisfaction to redundancy that it's easy to be drawn to. Did you know the two funniest sketches in the world of comedy derive a great deal of their humor from synonyms? Those are, first, the world-famous Monty Python Dead Parrot sketch:
& then there's the Cheese Shop sketch (which I love more than the Dead Parrot sketch) (it's true!):
Sometimes on Self Help Radio I indulge myself (& maybe you) with synonyms. But I don't know if I'll have time tomorrow to go on about synonyms for the word maybe. So, thanks to thesaurus.com, here are the synonyms for maybe:
perchance. perhaps. possibly. peradventure. probably. potentially. conceivable. conceivably. credible. feasible. imaginably. as it may be. can be. could be. it could be. for all one knows. at all.
Most certainly you can think of a funny sketch where someone needs to know something but the person he or she turns to for the information can't be nailed down to a concrete response. & out come the synonyms!
Now I wish I had written something like that for the show. Maybe I still can. But. Maybe I can't.
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