How can I understand this sentence?
Here is this sentence:
I have never been a fan of poultry since my childhood when my older brother committed, excuse the pun, a fool deed, and gave my ageing pet chook, 'Henny Penny'-- the chop.
How can I understand this sentence? How can I understand the words, 'excuse the pun' ? And is it written as 'excused the pun' ? And what do the words, 'gave my ageing pet chook, 'Henny Penny'-- the chop', mean?

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How can I understand this sentence?
Here is this sentence:
       I have never been a fan of poultry since my childhood when my older brother committed,  excuse the pun, a fool deed, and gave my ageing pet chook, 'Henny Penny'-- the chop.
      How can I understand this sentence? How can I understand the words, 'excuse the pun' ? And is it written as 'excused the pun' ? And what do the words, 'gave my ageing pet chook, 'Henny Penny'-- the chop', mean?

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His brother killed his pet hen, so he doesn't want to eat poultry any more. 
Pun is a kind of joke, a play on words. Here fool means silly, stupid, but fowl, pronounced similarly, is a hen. 
"excuse the pun" = Forgive me for making this pun. Forgive me for joking with these things.
'gave my ageing pet chook, 'Henny Penny'-- the chop' 
chook is a hen, 
'Henny Penny' was her name 
'gave her a chop' = chopped of her head
ageing = the pet hen was no longer young

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Isn't there anyone helping me? Please !

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this is an idiom man

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