Jokes
Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 2:09 pm- Doctor, doctor! I think I'm invisible.
- Who said that?
- Peter, how do you imagine the ideal school?
- Closed, teacher!
- Why is the math book sad?
- Because it has many problems.
- Why are you crawling on the supermarket?
- I'm looking for low prices.
He was a cook so ugly, but so ugly, that he makes the onions cry.
What is a pun?
The pun, or paronomasia, is a form of word play which exploits numerous meanings of a statement, allowing it to be understood in multiple ways for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use and abuse of homophonic, homographic, metonymic, or metaphorical language. A pun must be deliberate —an unintentional substitution of similar words is called a malapropism. Henri Bergson defined a pun as a sentence or utterance in which "two different sets of ideas are expressed, and we are confronted with only one series of words".
Can you find any?
(I acknowledge that either do not understand or do not see the humor)
What do you call it when your most valuable player takes a bathroom break? A champ peein'!
What would you call an undersized Belgian ant? An Antwerp!
- Who said that?
- Peter, how do you imagine the ideal school?
- Closed, teacher!
- Why is the math book sad?
- Because it has many problems.
- Why are you crawling on the supermarket?
- I'm looking for low prices.
He was a cook so ugly, but so ugly, that he makes the onions cry.
What is a pun?
The pun, or paronomasia, is a form of word play which exploits numerous meanings of a statement, allowing it to be understood in multiple ways for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use and abuse of homophonic, homographic, metonymic, or metaphorical language. A pun must be deliberate —an unintentional substitution of similar words is called a malapropism. Henri Bergson defined a pun as a sentence or utterance in which "two different sets of ideas are expressed, and we are confronted with only one series of words".
Can you find any?
(I acknowledge that either do not understand or do not see the humor)
What do you call it when your most valuable player takes a bathroom break? A champ peein'!
What would you call an undersized Belgian ant? An Antwerp!