"Finally, I suspect that it is by entering that deep place inside us where our secrets are kept that we come perhaps closer than we do anywhere else to the One who, whether we realize it or not, is of all our secrets the most telling and the most precious we have to tell." Frederick Buechner
Friday, March 27, 2009
Creative Puns for Educated Minds
1. The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was --
--Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, --
--but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian .
3. She was only a whisky maker, --
--but he loved her still.
4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class --
--because it was a weapon of math disruption.
5. The butcher backed into the meat grinder --
--and got a little behind in his work.
6. No matter how much you push the envelope, --
--it'll still be stationery.
7. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road --
--and was cited for littering.
8. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France --
--would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
9. Two silk worms had a race. --
--They ended up in a tie.
10. Time flies like an arrow. --
--Fruit flies like a banana.
11. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. --
--The police are looking into it.
12. Atheism --
--is a non-prophet organization.
13. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. --
--One hat said to the other, 'You stay here, I'll go on a head.'
14. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger.--
-- Then, it hit me.
15. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said, --
--'Keep off the Grass.'
16. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital.--
-- His grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, 'No change yet.'
17. A chicken crossing the road --
--is poultry in motion.
18. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison --
--was a small medium at large.
19. The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray --
--is now a seasoned veteran.
20. A backward poet --
--writes inverse.
21. In democracy, it's your vote that counts. --
--In feudalism, it's your count that votes.
22. When cannibals ate a missionary, --
--they got a taste of religion.
23. Don't join dangerous cults: --
--Practice safe sects !
(Hat tip to Doug.)
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Groan ... but clever.
ReplyDeleteSome of these are so bad they'll become instant classics.
ReplyDeleteThat missionary that the cannibals ate turned out to be a clown - it tasted funny.
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