...And Another Thing...: Seven Miniature Four-Panel Faux Exquisite Corpses And Their Respective Sets Of Verses With Texts Derived From Puns Based On Homonyms To The Vocable 'Ex/Quis/It(e)/Corpse'

Faux Exquisite Corpse #1: 
Hex/Wiz/Seat/Corpse

Hex: 

Some Pennsy-Dutch décor. 
Wiz: 

Oz oligarch of yore.
Seat: 

So soft when butts be sore.
Corpse: 

One damn cadaver.

 

Faux Exquisite Corpse #2: 

Hecht's/Whiz/It/Corpse 

Hecht's: 

Defunct department store.
Whiz: 

That ersatz cheese you pour.
It: 

Part Bow,* part Addams lore.**
Corpse: 

Yes, ma'am: cadaver.
     *Clara, the It Girl  
     **The Addams's cousin It.

 

Faux Exquisite Corpse #3: 

Egg/Squeeze/"Sit!"/ Corpse

Egg: 

What comes before the chick. 
Squeeze: 

A baseball bunter's trick.
"Sit!": 

Command to Spot or Vic.
Corpse: 

Grand-slam: cadaver.

 

Faux Exquisite Corpse #4: 

Aix/Quiz/Zit/Corpse

Aix: 

The Great Chas* knew it best.
Quiz: 

A small exam; a test.
Zit: 

No adolescent jest.
Corpse: 

press'd ham: cadaver.  
     *I.e., Charlemagne with reference to his palace  

complex at Aachen.

 

Faux Exquisite Corpse #5: 

Haig's/Swiss/Hit/Corpse 

Haig's:

"This stuff belongs to Al."
Swiss: 

Not unlike Emmental.
Hit: 

(But who would shoot a pal...?)
Corpse: 

Lost lamb: cadaver.

Faux Exquisite Corpse #6: 

Aches/Oui!/Sid/Corpse

 
Aches: 

First fruits of one's malaise.
Oui!: 

Like 'si!' but en Francaise. 
Sid: 

From TV's Golden Days.*
Corpse: 

V'et (Nam) cadaver. 
     *Caesar (the comic 

not the emperor)

 

Faux Exquisite Corpse #7: 

X/Wheeze/Zed/Corpse

 
X: 

Abu Kamil's* unknown.
Wheeze: 

How labor'd breathing's shown. 
Zed: 

Initializes 'zone.'
Corpse: 

Go! Scram, cadaver!  
     *A medieval Arabic algebr'ist