#97273 - 02/28/03 04:44 PM
Puns Aching the Rounds
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Here's an e-mail paste a friend sent:
A GOOD PUN IS ITS OWN REWORD
A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.
Dijon vu - the same mustard as before.
Shotgun wedding: A case of wife or death.
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
Sea captains don't like crew cuts.
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
Reading while sunbathing makes you well-red.
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!)
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
A backward 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.
Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft, and I'll show you a flat minor.
When a clock is hungry, it goes back four seconds.
The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.
A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
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.
A plateau is a high form of flattery.
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.
Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of defeat.
The poor guy fell into a glass grinding machine and made a spectacle of himself.
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#97274 - 02/28/03 05:36 PM
with apologies to Gian-Carlo Menotti
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 08/06/01
Posts: 3776
Loc: Worcester, MA
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Once you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall.
...When Mother gave birth to twins, she named them Amahl and Juan. Father was overseas, and Mother brought Juan to show him.
"What about the other one?" said Father.
"Oh, they're identical," said Mom, "when you've seen Juan, you've seen Amahl..."
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#97275 - 02/28/03 09:12 PM
Re: with apologies to Gian-Carlo Menotti
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Registered: 03/15/00
Posts: 11578
Loc: Louisville, Kentucky
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He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key. I hadn't heard that one before--ha! Wofa, just for the halibut: [blowing you a kiss e] I'm so glad you're here! 
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#97276 - 03/01/03 09:10 AM
Re: with apologies to Gian-Carlo Menotti
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Pooh-Bah
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Halibut reminds me of the man who went into business by hinmself, selling fish. He was a sole trader.
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#97278 - 03/03/03 09:31 AM
Re: with apologies to Gian-Carlo Menotti
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You'll just have to find the right thyme and plaice.
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#97279 - 03/03/03 11:08 AM
Re: with apologies to Gian-Carlo Menotti
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Loc: Vermont
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this is my Bach's...
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#97280 - 03/06/03 03:57 PM
He was a sole trader.
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Carpal Tunnel
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But we're assuming he worked to scale.
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#97281 - 03/06/03 04:30 PM
Re: He was a sole trader.
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Registered: 06/24/02
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Loc: Vermont
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undoubtedly he was Finnish...
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#97282 - 03/06/03 07:52 PM
Re: He was a sole trader.
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Carpal Tunnel
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Is that why the album was called "Hooked on Bach"?
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#97284 - 03/12/03 11:27 AM
Re: He was a sole trader.
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Registered: 05/18/00
Posts: 679
Loc: Somewhere outside New York
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Or the Mexican fireman who called his sons Jose and Hose B?
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#97285 - 03/14/03 04:11 AM
Re: He was a sole trader.
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 08/23/00
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I didn't tell you the whole story about the fishmonger, though. Eventually, he joined with five other fishmongers in a joint business, so that they could achieve economies of scale.
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#97287 - 03/29/03 06:05 AM
Re: pun o' the day
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Pooh-Bah
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That's true if you look at it eider way.
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#97288 - 03/29/03 06:08 AM
Re: pun o' the day
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 08/23/00
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-- and how about the man who fed the seagulls with cannabis?
He left no tern unstoned.
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#97289 - 03/29/03 08:00 AM
Re: pun o' the day
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 04/09/00
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Loc: Jakarta
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.. and the physical fitness trainer who left no stern untoned.
Bingley
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#97290 - 03/29/03 09:08 AM
Re: pun o' the day
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Carpal Tunnel
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In reply to:
...left no stern untoned.
~Bingley
And for anyone who thinks, "You cain't tone bones," well, just consider a xylophone made of toned bones--a bonophone!
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#97291 - 03/31/03 02:58 AM
Re: pun o' the day
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 08/23/00
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-- or one *made of stones - an essential instrument for any rock band.
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#97293 - 03/31/03 10:46 AM
Re: pun o' the day
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Pooh-Bah
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Oh, ho! very humerus
Well - someone had to say it!
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