Puns for the Hard of Hearing
[shor_intro]What kind of pun is created for the hard of hearing? Who knows? I sure don’t. However, here is a selection copied from some random web page.[/short_intro]
Religion and Taxes
STORE OWNER: Why do my taxes keep going up?
PROPERTY ASSESSOR: Because the churches don’t pay taxes, so we have to make up the difference.
STORE OWNER: And why are there so many churches?
PROPERTY ASSESSOR: Because we’re not allowed to decide whether or not something’s a church.
STORE OWNER: (pause) Stop leaning on my [main_last]altar.[/main_last]
The above was copied from Not Always Right, a humor site.
Deep Thoughts
[short_intro]Signs of life are always found on signs[/short_intro]
Interesting Phrase
I ran across this phrase while reading a recent news article:
organized turbulence
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A Big Bob Story
[short_intro]Big Bob sauntered down to my work area and casually enquired if I had a wooden leg[/short_intro]
At one firm in the 1980s our group occupied cubicles in a row near some windows.
Musical Puns
Comment threads of news items can be pretty much echo chambers but every once in a while, someone posts a random comment that leads to a rich variety of punny responses. Witness this brilliant series:
Exhausted With Bad Puns
[short_intro]Another bunch of native witz on a comment thread[/short_intro]
Truth in Labeling
I was stunned, stunned! I tell you, when I noticed this in a recent market advertising circular ☞
A Violinist’s Nightmare
Seems there was an orchestra, with a master Violinist in first chair. In the midst of final rehearsal for a grand exposition of powerful music, a bizarre dissonance was heard.
The conductor stopped the piece as he nearly fell off his podium.
Comment Thread about the Grand Canyon
We visited the Grand Canyon when I was a kid. I remember a ranger telling us why we shouldn‘t throw rocks into the canyon: “If everybody did it, they’d fill up the canyon.” Read More ➥