Richard-Business Eng
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Pun With Words... sorry sorry, I meant to say Fun With Words - Part 1
Puns are fun

pun (n): 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.

1. The fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.

2. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.

3. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was arrested for littering.

4. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.

5. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.

6. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

7. Why do we have noses that run and feet that smell?

8. There was the person who sent ten puns to friends with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.

9. A backward poet writes inverse.

10. The quickest way to get someone's attention is to no longer want it. 

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Did you get them all? (get = understand)
If there are some that you did not get, say so in your comments and someone will explain it to you.
Jan 28, 2018 1:15 PM
Comments · 10
4

I saw this pun online:

I Googled "How to start a Wildfire." I got 48,500 matches.

January 28, 2018
3

Richard, now I know that P and F are sister letters because they share the same DNA called "un"! P-un, F-un. Hurra!:)

Thanks for an amusing post, Richard:)

January 28, 2018
2
Thank you very much for these interesting phrases ,I'm sorry I couldn't understand most of them

I understood only 7&9

January 28, 2018
2
"A skinny farmer had been picking apples but didn't get that many. Looks like slim pickings. And you don't get the gravity of all that", said Sir Isaac Newton.
January 28, 2018
1

Thanks for those funny puns that made me chuckle. I got them all. I especially liked 5, 6 and 8. Are those famous puns or did you come up with them yourself?

January 28, 2018
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Richard-Business Eng
Language Skills
Chinese (Mandarin), English, French
Learning Language
Chinese (Mandarin)
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