* "Who left the toilet seat down?" Tom asked peevishly.
* "Pass me the shellfish," said Tom crabbily.
* "That's the last time I'll stick my arm in a lion's mouth," the lion-tamer said off-handedly.
* "Can I go looking for the Grail again?" Tom requested.
* "I unclogged the drain with a vacuum cleaner," Tom said succinctly.
* "I might as well be dead," Tom croaked.
* "We just struck oil!" Tom gushed.
* "They had to amputate them both at the ankles," Tom said defeatedly.
* "Who discovered radium?" asked Marie curiously.
* "Hurry up and get to the back of the ship," Tom said sternly.
* "Would you like to ride in my new ambulance?" asked Tom hospitably.
* "Who put the moss in the bog again?" asked Tom repeatedly.
* "A word that contains all five vowels? And I suppose you want those vowels to appear in alphabetical order?" asked Tom facetiously.
* “Charlatan! Pretender! Mountebank! Quack! Rogue!” Tom said euphoniously.
* "I'm not going to evangelize the rest of the neighborhood," concluded Tom distractedly.
* "The robber is coming down the stairs", Tom said condescendingly.
* "Nnnn", Tom murmured forensically.
* "I think I'm a homosexual", Tom said, half in earnest.
* "I am the bone lord," Tom proclaimed skulkingly.
* "I know who turned out the lights," Tom hinted darkly