Posted on 11/26/2008 5:43:02 AM PST by Lucky9teen
Puns & Other Word Play
Many see puns as cheap humor, one-liners, or groaners, despite their prevalence in our culture. They are most often seen in the names of businesses, or advertising. Others, like the writer Jonathan Swift, see them as a challenging art form, where one shapes words like a cobbler bends leather. 'Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words,' said Swift, 'which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.
However the dictionary describes a pun as:
pun
n.
A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Here are some more. Happy Thanksgiving.
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 whiskey 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. When 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!
Gobble gobble. Happy Thanksgiving to all. Despite what we are going to have to endure in the next couple years, we still have a lot to be thankful for and we should do whatever we can to protect it.
Puns are the highest form of hummus............
You can get four hands by doubling your fists
And this is true, no bull: When in a biology class at Cypress College we were studying genetics, using “Indian” corn. The multi colored kernels were the subject of close study. I asked our instructor what color the darker kernels would be if popped, as in pop corn.
Instructor Alice Goldman paused, then said that since the ears of corn had shellac on them as a preservative, we'd first have to sand the shellac off before popping them.
“I have the perfect person in mind for that!” I said. Kernel Sanders!
The groan from the lecture hall was monumental.
DING DING!
WINNER!
It’s served with very little dressing.
You quit stuffing yourself, cold turkey.
Hope to fit in a smaller size after Thanksgiving?
That’s wistful shrinking.
(...what a nice surprise to see a Wednesday Sillines issue)
LOL!
I meant to reply with my post 30. I don’t know how I screwed that up. Must be these pills I’m taking that say not to operate heavy machinery. Who knew a computer was considered heavy machinery?
Two robins are lying on their backs, soaking up some sun.
A Mama cat and her kitten come walking by.
The kitten complains, “Mama, I’m sooo hungry, what can we eat?”
The Mama cat, spying the 2 birds replies, “How about some baskin’ robins?”
Two guys sitting at a bar, chatting about dogs, and trying to out-do each other:
1st guy : ‘’I taught my dog to read.’’
2nd guy : ‘’I know. My dog told me that yesterday.
Two thirds of a pun is P U
Booooooo :-D
One we can all relate to:
I have a spilling checker, It came with my PC;
It plainly marks four my revue, Mistakes I cannot sea.
I’ve run this poem threw it, I’m sure your please too no,
Its letter perfect in it’s weigh, My checker tolled me sew.
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