Friday 14 December 2007

Truisms for pun

I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
Police were called to a daycare where a three-year-old was resisting a rest. 
Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.  
The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. 
To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate.
The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.
A thief fell and broke his leg in wet cement. He became a hardened criminal.  
Thieves who steal corn from a garden could be charged with stalking.  
We'll never run out of math teachers because they always multiply. 
When the smog lifts in
Los Angeles, U C L A.
The math professor went crazy with the blackboard. He did a number on it. 
The professor discovered that her theory of earthquakes was on shaky ground 
The dead batteries were given out free of charge. 
If you take a laptop computer for a run you could jog your memory.
A dentist and a manicurist fought tooth and nail. 
What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead giveaway)  
A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
A backward poet writes inverse.
In a democracy it's your vote that counts; in feudalism, it's your count that votes.  
A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.  
If you don't pay your exorcist you can 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 miner.
When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds. 
The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered. 
A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in
France, resulted in Linoleum Blownapart. 
You are stuck with your debt, if you can't budge it.  
He broke into song because he couldn't find the key. 
A calendar's days are numbered. 
A lot of money is tainted: 'Taint yours, and 'taint mine.
A boiled egg is hard to beat. 
He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
A plateau is a high form of flattery. 
Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end. 
When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.
When she 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: a jab well done. 

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