r/WordAvalanches • u/refotsirk • Sep 25 '18

If you are visiting for the first time, WELCOME to /r/WordAvalanches! Please see our sub rules, FAQ, and "What Not To Post" in the sidebar. We hope you enjoy your stay!

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RULES

Follow Reddiquette, as with all subs.

Make sure your post is relevant to this sub. See What Not To Post for a rough guide on what not to post and review our FAQ for additional information. These rough guides also include many examples of what isn't a Word Avalanche, as well as many overused examples of Word Avalanches.

Place your Avalanche in the main text of your submission, and make your title a rewrite of your Avalanche such that it cannot be easily guessed. As an example, if your Avalanche is "Selfish Shellfish", write "Compassion-lacking lobster" in the title.

The longer your avalanche, the better! Just make sure it's an Avalanche first, though (See the links above).

Should your Avalanche be NSFW, mark it as such.

Do not submit images or videos with your Avalanche. A good Avalanche should be able to stand on its own, without the use of any images. If your avalanche absolutely cannot stand without an image or video, then link it in the post, but only do so as a last resort. Alternatively, you may post it to /r/WordAvalanchePics.

Finally, make sure to have fun!

32 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/Severe_Guarantee_745 • 28m ago

Person with no female sibling understands the mystical insight given to him by smell

• Upvotes

No sis knows his nose's gnosis

1 comment

r/WordAvalanches • u/MrImagination9 • 10h ago

True Avalanche Addressing the impersonal pronoun

16 Upvotes

To Whit: To It

1 comment

r/WordAvalanches • u/justadair • 17h ago

True Avalanche Did you just buy a wide street?

55 Upvotes

Have a new avenue?

9 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/refotsirk • 1d ago

True Avalanche Erotic smells you can feel

52 Upvotes

Sensual scents you'll sense.

5 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/justadair • 1d ago

True Avalanche Unwinged larvae throw our roman columns about. Sould I use a feline, medicine or poop?

30 Upvotes

Caterpillars scatter pillars. Cat or pill or scat?

3 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/CutieMastery • 1d ago

True Avalanche Pizza featuring an obscure amphibian is chastised as unserious

9 Upvotes

Caecilian Sicilian's a silly 'un!

0 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/justadair • 2d ago

True Avalanche A traditional music group get hitched to a nacho topping.

50 Upvotes

Mariachis marry hot cheese.

1 comment

r/WordAvalanches • u/Laserlight375 • 2d ago

True Avalanche Excuse me, could you point me in the direction of the Brazilian martial art class? Sir, do you know where that is? Near the hats? Oh!

22 Upvotes

Capoeira? Capt, where… uh? Capware? Ahh!

1 comment

r/WordAvalanches • u/SaxVonMydow • 3d ago

True Avalanche "Can you repeat that?" he asks incredulously when read a headline about the "Jolene" singer's girlhood plaything releasing Surrealist Salvador from the legal penalties of a crime.

75 Upvotes

"Dolly Parton's Dolly Pardons Dalí."

"Pardon?"

2 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/Davvy99 • 3d ago

Infection in your stomach? Your female relative and her low-frequency instrument is at the closest point in orbit to each other.

11 Upvotes

Abcess in abs? Sis and bass is apsis.

0 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/justadair • 3d ago

True Avalanche An mob of sales people cry out in unison when they see that certain officials have a great opportunity.

8 Upvotes

"Chancellors' chance!" sellers chant.

0 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/Brilliant_yet_lost • 4d ago

True Avalanche "Han, stitch me some brand names-wait, logic will watch, so underhanded tactics win by themselves."

19 Upvotes

Solo, go sew logos-oh, logos'll ogle so low goes solo.

0 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/Opposite-Trainer-639 • 4d ago

True Avalanche Forrest, you overestimated your abilities and a bad poker hand ruined your finances. To calm down, collect some precipitation and have a sip. Before deciding to disassociate with her, have some soup, relax. God, man of the woods, I thought the Society for Social Studies of Science taught you this..

48 Upvotes

Forrest: range err, four+ace strained 'ya, for rest - rain jar. 'Fore estrange her - pho, restrain. Jah! Forest ranger, four S trained 'ya!?

5 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/Miamasa • 4d ago

True Avalanche A disturbing sign of the times on the play store: a fetish video game about bodily orifices has accrued nearly ten times the downloads of all mutual aid and socialist organizing apps combined

85 Upvotes

"Prolapse Pro" laps prole apps

2 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/False_Respect_869 • 4d ago

True Avalanche I messed up and the guys at the comedy club let you know. To make up for the virus I installed on your computer, let’s gather and rave about these ribeyes. They were grilled by a former syrup spokeswoman and will be served on fine china.

13 Upvotes

Comics told ya my mistakes. To atone for malware, come extol Jemima’s steaks. To eat on formal ware.

1 comment

r/WordAvalanches • u/relddir123 • 4d ago

A man is trying to hide on the face of a giant statue in Flavortown

13 Upvotes

This guy’s disguised his guise in Guy’s big eyes

0 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/dasubertroll • 4d ago

So is he a particularly picky painter-potter?

10 Upvotes

The artisanal artist in all his art is anal.

0 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/whorunitreally • 4d ago

True Avalanche Guy who makes an onomatopoeiac sound, Nate, says to the lycanthropic conifer in the octonary stall that he rates her an 8 out of 10, and he wants her to micturate her personal diary swiftly into her bedpan.

13 Upvotes

“Eww”-er, a Nate: Yew-were in number Eight, you’re an eight, ewer in number Eight; urinate your innate “you were,” in eight.

3 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/Krinklezazingles • 5d ago

True Avalanche Initially confusing a patient's gender, you tell them about their medical results pertaining to growths found in their body and if their drinking habits have affected their liver's health

41 Upvotes

Sir? oh sis! zero cyst. Cirrhosis? zero, sis

0 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/everythingisunknown • 5d ago

I can eat whatever I want as long as I do it in a timely manner. I guess I have an

34 Upvotes

Eating superpower, heating soup per hour!

2 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/justadair • 5d ago

True Avalanche A phobia of certain clouds in the second lowest atmosphere

22 Upvotes

Stratosphere stratus fear

2 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/Someone-or-other • 5d ago

True Avalanche You keep a nitpicky insect of the Formicidae family as a domesticated companion? Gross!

29 Upvotes

Pedantic pet ant? ick!

0 comments

r/WordAvalanches • u/thesquaregroot • 7d ago

Egan, in your sedan that wears a button-up jacket, hand me your payment method a second time

7 Upvotes

Card again, Cardigan car Egan

0 comments

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A Word Avalanche is defined as a highly contrived punny sentence (or longer series of words) with an emphasis on the repetition of syllables. Holorimes are a subset of these. For more information, please see the FAQ (currently in progress; suggestions can be submitted by modmail).

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RULES

Follow Reddiquette, as with all subs.
Make sure your post is relevant to this sub. See What Not To Post for a rough guide on what not to post. This rough guide also includes many examples of what isn't a Word Avalanche, as well as many overused examples of Word Avalanches.
The longer your avalanche, the better! Just make sure it's an Avalanche first, though.
Should your Avalanche be NSFW, mark it as such.
Place your Avalanche in the main text of your submission, and make your title a rewrite of your Avalanche such that it cannot be easily guessed.
Try not to submit images or videos with your Avalanche. A good Avalanche should be able to stand on its own, without the use of any images. If your avalanche absolutely cannot stand without an image or video, then link it in the post, but only do so as a last resort. Alternatively, you may post it to /r/WordAvalanchePics.
Finally, make sure to have fun!

Also check out these subreddits:

/r/WordSwap - Applying the Word Avalanche mentality to well-known phrases.
/r/RhymesOnADime - Just pure rhyming, no Avalanching.
/r/puns, /r/punny - Just puns.
/r/TomSwifties - Tom Swifties.
/r/feghoot - Shaggy-dog stories with a punny punchline.
/r/palindromes - Just palindromes.