{"id":5608,"date":"2020-04-03T11:17:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T15:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=5608"},"modified":"2020-04-04T06:29:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T10:29:39","slug":"2-dozen-great-puns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=5608","title":{"rendered":"2 dozen great puns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. The roundest knight at King Arthur&#8217;s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.<\/p>\n<p>2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.<\/p>\n<p>3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.<\/p>\n<p>4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.<\/p>\n<p>5. The butcher backed into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.<\/p>\n<p>6. No matter how much you push the envelope, it&#8217;ll still be stationery.<\/p>\n<p>7. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.<\/p>\n<p>8. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.<\/p>\n<p>9. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.<\/p>\n<p>10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.<\/p>\n<p>11. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.<\/p>\n<p>12. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.<\/p>\n<p>13. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other, &#8216;You stay here; I&#8217;ll go on a head.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>14. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.<\/p>\n<p>15. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: &#8216;Keep off the Grass.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>16. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, &#8216;No change yet.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>17. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.<\/p>\n<p>18. It&#8217;s not that the man did not know how to juggle, he just didn&#8217;t have the balls to do it.<\/p>\n<p>19. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.<\/p>\n<p>20. The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.<\/p>\n<p>21. A backward poet writes inverse.<\/p>\n<p>22. In democracy it&#8217;s your vote that counts. In feudalism it&#8217;s your count that votes.<\/p>\n<p>23. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.<\/p>\n<p>24. Don&#8217;t join dangerous cults: Practice safe sects!<\/p>\n<p><em>(ed. \u2013 Thank you to Dick Inwood \u2013 a very punny man! And for more puns, here are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?tag=puns%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">some archived posts<\/a> to groan at.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Chris George, providing reliable PR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer and experienced communicator? Call 613-983-0801 @<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/cgacommunications.com\/m\/\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. The roundest knight at King Arthur&#8217;s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi. 2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian. 3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still. 4. A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5608"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11251,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608\/revisions\/11251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}