beauty
-noun, plural -ties.
1. the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest).



Wednesday, December 29, 2004

I Love Puns

Just ask Amy how her lack of laughing doesn't stop me from continuing to enjoy reading all the great puns my dad emails to me aloud. So now you get to be in on the fun too! (and btw I'm blogging this from Poland! Yippee!)

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.

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.

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.

aahahahhahahhahahahahahahhahahahahaaaa... :)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Allison, It's neil here , from Missoula, How you doing, I have no clue why i am typing in this box, I here your in Germany, cool, whats it like there,

Anonymous said...

Hey Neil, good to hear from you. Things in Germany are going well...2005 looks to be a good year for the church here. I hope things in Missoula are going well too...say hi to everyone from me! :)
-Allison

Anonymous said...

I actually laughed at some of these--
and where's the oh-so-famous one about the cussing fish???????

Anonymous said...

Ok ok Bri, you're right, I should put it on here. But due to it's delicate nature, I am typing it only in this comment section, for your enjoyment... :)

"Two fish swam into a concrete wall. One turned to the other and said, 'Dam!'"

Brilliant I say, just brilliant. :)
-Allison

Unknown said...

Funny dad!