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Some say that puns are the highest form of humour.
You decide.
- Two antennae met on a roof, fell in love and got married.
The ceremony wasn't much, but the reception was excellent.
- A jumper cable walks into a bar.
The bartender says, "I'll serve you, but don't start anything."
- A dyslexic man walks into a bra.
- A man walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under his arm, and says:
"A beer please, and one for the road."
- Two cannibals are eating a clown.
One says to the other: "Does this taste funny to you?"
- Two cows are standing next to each other in a field.
Daisy says to Dolly, "I was artificially inseminated
this morning."
"I don't believe you," says Dolly.
"It's true; no bull!" exclaims Daisy.
- An invisible man marries an invisible woman.
The kids were nothing to look at either.
- I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day, but I couldn't find any.
- A man woke up in a hospital after a serious accident.
He shouted, "Doctor, doctor, I can't feel my legs!"
The doctor replied, "I know you can't, I've cut off your arms!"
- What do you call a fish with no eyes?
A fsh.
- “I don't like hanging out at the pancake house, that place gives me the crepes!”
- I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
- Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.
- He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends.
- Police were called to a daycare where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
- 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"
- There was once a cross-eyed teacher who couldn't control his pupils.
- When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
- A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two-tired.
- King Ozymandias of Assyria was running low on cash after years of war with the Hittites. His last great possession was the Star of the Euphrates, the most valuable diamond in the ancient world.
Desperate, he went to Croesus the pawnbroker, to ask for a loan.
Croesus said, "I'll give you 100,000 dinars for it." "But I paid a million dinars for it," the King protested. "Don't you know who I am? I am the king!"
Croesus replied, "....When you wish to pawn a Star, it makes no difference who you are."
- Evidence has been found that William Tell and his family were avid big league bowlers. However, all the Swiss league records were unfortunately destroyed in a fire, and so we'll never know for whom the Tells bowled.
- A man rushed into a busy doctor's office and shouted "Doctor! I think I'm shrinking!!" The doctor calmly responded, "Now, now. Settle down. You'll just have to be a little patient."
- A marine biologist developed a race of genetically engineered dolphins that could live forever if they were fed a steady diet of seagulls. One day, his supply of the birds ran out so he had to go out and trap some more. On the way back, he spied two lions asleep on the road. Afraid to wake them, he gingerly stepped over them. Immediately, he was arrested and charged with transporting gulls across sedate lions for immortal porpoises.
- Back in the 1800s the Tates Watch Company of Massachusetts wanted to produce other products and, since they already made the cases for watches, they used them to produce compasses. The new compasses were so bad that people often ended up in Canada or Mexico rather than California.
This, of course, is the origin of the expression, "He who has a Tates is lost!"
- A thief broke into the local police station and stole all the toilets and urinals, leaving no clues.
A spokesperson was quoted as saying, "We have absolutely nothing to go on."
- An Indian chief was feeling very sick, so he summoned the medicine man. After a brief examination, the medicine man took out a long, thin strip of elk rawhide and gave it to the chief, telling him to bite off, chew, and swallow one inch of the leather every day. After a month, the medicine man returned to see how the chief was feeling. The chief shrugged and said, "The thong is ended, but the malady lingers on."
- A famous Viking explorer returned home from a voyage and found his name missing from the town register. His wife insisted on complaining to the local civic official who apologized profusely saying, "I must have taken Leif off my census."
- There were three Indian squaws. One slept on a deer skin, one slept on an elk skin, and the third slept on a hippopotamus skin. All three became pregnant, and the first two each had a baby boy. The one who slept on the hippopotamus skin had twin boys. This goes to prove that the squaw of the hippopotamus is equal to the sons of the squaws of the other two hides.
- A skeptical anthropologist was cataloguing South American folk remedies with the assistance of a tribal brujo who indicated that the leaves of a particular fern were a sure cure for any case of constipation. When the anthropologist expressed his doubts, the brujo looked him in the eye and said, "Let me tell you, with fronds like these, who needs enemas?"
- By the way, the guy who wrote the 10 puns above entered them in a contest. He figured with 10 entries, he couldn't lose.
As they were reading the list of winners, he was really hoping one of his puns would win, but unfortunately, no pun in ten did.
- In my youth, I was told about a stadium full of Basques who were watching soccer, when someone shouted 'Fire!', and a lot of people were killed stampeding out .....which just goes to show how silly it is to put all your Basques in one exit!
- Mon Dieu! A thief in Paris planned to steal some paintings from the Louvre. After careful planning, he got past security, stole the paintings and made it safely to his van. However, he was captured only two blocks away when his van ran out of gas. When asked how a great thief could mastermind such a crime and still make such an obvious error, he replied, "Monsieur, that is the reason I stole the paintings. I had no Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh."
And now you're wondering how I had De Gaulle to send this on to someone else.
Hey! I figure I had nothing Toulouse!
- The other day I phoned my local pizza delivery firm and asked for a thin and crusty supreme.
They sent me Diana Ross.
- Sky have just won the rights to screen the first World Origami Championships from Tokyo.
Unfortunately, it's only available on Paper View.
- Sean Connery gets a call from his agent one day. The agent says, "Sean, I've got you a job, starts
tomorrow, early. You'll have to be there for 10-ish".
Sean furrows his brow and says, "Tennish? But I don`t even have a racket."
- Energizer Bunny arrested - charged with battery.
- A pessimist's blood type is always b-negative.
- Practise safe eating - always use condiments.
- A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
- Shotgun wedding: A case of wife or death.
- I used to work in a blanket factory, but it folded.
- Marriage is the mourning after the knot before.
- A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
- Corduroy pillows are making headlines.
- Is a book on voyeurism a peeping tome?
- Sea captains don't like crew cuts.
- Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
- A successful diet is the triumph of mind over platter.
- Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
- A gossip is someone with a great sense of rumour.
- Without geometry, life is pointless.
- When you dream in colour, it's a pigment of your imagination.
- Reading while sunbathing makes you well-red.
- A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.
- Dijon vu - the same mustard as before.
- When two egotists meet, it's an I for an I.
- A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two-tired.
- What's the definition of a will? (Come on, it's a dead giveaway!)
- A backwards poet writes inverse.
- In democracy your vote counts. In feudalism, your count votes.
- A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
- If you don't pay your exorcist, you get repossessed.
- With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.
- Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft, and I'll show you a flat minor.
- The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.
- A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blown apart.
- You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
- Local Area Network in Australia: The LAN down under.
- He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
- Every calendar's days are numbered.
- A lot of money is tainted. It taint yours and it taint mine.
- A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
- He had a photographic memory that was never developed.
- The short fortuneteller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
- Once you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall.
- Those who jump off a Paris bridge are in Seine.
- When an actress saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye.
- Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead-to-know basis.
- Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.
- Acupuncture is a jab well done.
A pun (or paronomasia) is a phrase that deliberately exploits confusion between similar-sounding words for humorous or rhetorical effect.
A pun may also cause confusion between two senses of the same written or spoken word, due to homophony, homography, homonymy, polysemy, or metaphorical usage. Walter Redfern has said: "To pun is to treat homonyms as synonyms".[1] Another definition has said that a pun is a word that has two different meanings used simultaneously. For example, in the phrase, "There is nothing punny about bad puns", the pun takes place in the deliberate confusion of the implied word "funny" by the substitution of the word "punny", a heterophone of "funny". By definition, puns must be deliberate; an involuntary substitution of similar words is called a malapropism.
Puns are a form of word play, and occur in all languages. |
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