According to the dictionary, a pun is the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
I like puns. Sometimes they can be quite clever and humorous. At other times they can lead to an excruciatingly bad joke, although the worse they are the funnier they seem to be. Strange thing humor.
I have a load of examples in the archives. Here are some to give you a taste of what may be in store.
Enjoy, (I hope)…
The fattest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference.
He acquired his size from too much pi.
I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island,
but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
She was only a whiskey maker,
but he loved her still.
No matter how much you push the envelope,
it’ll still be stationery.
Would a grenade thrown into a kitchen in France result in
Linoleum Blownapart?
Two silk worms had a race.
They ended up in a tie.
A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall.
The police are looking into it.
Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.
Apparently Mitt Romney donated the entirety of his inheritance from his father to the Brigham Young University. Is this guy a Moron?
Mitt Romney and Charles Montgomery Burns
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.”
I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger.
Then it hit me.
A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said:
“Keep off the Grass.”
The midget fortune-teller who escaped from prison
was a small medium at large.
The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray
is now a seasoned veteran.
A backward poet writes inverse.
In a democracy it’s your vote that counts…
In feudalism it’s your count that votes.
When cannibals ate a missionary,
did they get a taste of religion?
If you jumped off the bridge in Paris ,
you’d be in Seine.
A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons.
The stewardess looks at him and says,
“I’m sorry, sir, only one carrion per passenger.”
Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal?
There was a lot of love for the short series of quotes from George Carlin. I was pleased that he is remembered well and still giving amusement to people, despite no longer being with us.
Today I have a selection of other witty sayings, not attributed to anyone in particular, but in the same spirit as last week’s post.
I hope you enjoy these too.
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Dickson’s Gardening Rule: When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.
The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.
Sex is like air; it’s not important unless you aren’t getting any.
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
One good turn gets most of the blankets.
There are two kinds of pedestrians — the quick and the dead.
Life is sexually transmitted.
An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys.
If quitters never win, and winners never quit, then who is the fool who said “Quit while you’re ahead”?
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI. (One for the nerds and geeks to LTAO.)
Willie was a Chemist, But Willie is no more, What Willie thought was H2O Was H2SO4.
A closed mouth gathers no feet.
Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
It’s not hard to meet expenses, they’re everywhere.
Jury — Twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer.
Never lick a gift horse in the mouth.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
Before marriage, a man yearns for the woman he loves. After marriage, the ‘Y’ becomes silent.
If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to every word you say, talk in your sleep.
Today I have great pleasure in presenting the third, but unfortunately, final part of this short series of Witty One-liners from the late and great George Carlin.
Where have all the clever comedians gone, I wonder?
Enjoy.
Cloud nine gets all the publicity, but cloud eight actually is cheaper, less crowded, and has a better view.
Have you ever noticed that the lawyer always smiles more than the client?
I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.
If all our national holidays were observed on Wednesdays, we could wind up with nine-day weekends.
“Meow” means “woof” in cat.
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
“No comment” is a comment.
If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work.
So far, this is the oldest I’ve been.
When you think about it, attention-deficit order makes a lot of sense. In this country there isn’t a lot worth paying attention to.
I think I am, therefore, I am. I think.
If the cops didn’t see it, I didn’t do it!
Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.
I don’t have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of falling from heights.
It isn’t fair: the caterpillar does all the work, and the butterfly gets all the glory.
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
“I am” is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that “I do” is the longest sentence?
I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.
This Wednesday I am pleased to present part two of my trio of tributes to the late George Carlin and his great gift for seeing the world from the humorous side.
It turns out from the reaction to last week’s post that George still has a lot of fans out there which is great news.
Enjoy this latest selection.
If it requires a uniform, it’s a worthless endeavor.
As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero, he no longer is.
If a movie is described as a romantic comedy, you can usually find me next door playing pinball.
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.
I knew a transsexual guy whose only ambition is to eat, drink, and be Mary.
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.
If you’ve got a cat and a leg, you’ve got a happy cat. If you’ve got a cat and two legs, you’ve got a party.
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?
Here’s a bumper sticker I’d like to see: “We are the proud parents of a child who’s self-esteem is sufficient that he doesn’t need us promoting his minor scholastic achievements on the back of our car.”
I’ve never seen a homeless guy with a bottle of Gatorade.
One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you’re too tired.
If Helen Keller had psychic ability, would you say she had a fourth sense?
In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem.
“One thing leads to another”? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict.
Property is theft. Nobody “owns” anything. When you die, it all stays here.
The future will soon be a thing of the past.
Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes.
I’m going to run a short series of ‘Witty One-Liners’ from the late great comedian, George Carlin.
I didn’t agree with everything George believed in or everything he said, but the man had a great gift of looking at life from a slightly different, and very humorous, perspective than most people.
I hope you enjoy them too.
George Carlin
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If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP?
Is there another word for synonym?
If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?
Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
Why are a ‘wise man’ and a ‘wise guy’ opposites?
Why do ‘overlook’ and ‘oversee’ mean opposite things?
Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?
If it’s true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That’s just common sense!
A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.
Have you ever noticed that their ‘stuff’ is shit and your ‘shit’ is stuff?
You can’t fight City Hall, but you can goddamn sure blow it up.
If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?
No one knows what’s next, but everybody does it.
The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, “You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.”
The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.
Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.
Weather forecast for tonight: Dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.
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