My construction company failed after a competitor started a viscous rumor that I build houses without a foundation

It was a baseless accusation

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๐Ÿ‘ค︎ u/36chambersoffun
๐Ÿ“…︎ Jan 01 2019
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I've got a great joke about construction!...

...but I'm still working on it.

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๐Ÿ‘ค︎ u/Farfocele
๐Ÿ“…︎ Apr 16 2022
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A man was walking along a stream..

... when he noticed that every shoot growing put of the ground was a four leaf shamrock. There were millions of them, spread out along both banks.

Being superstitious, the man assumed the place must be somehow imbued with an extraordinary amount of luck.

He sought out the owner of the land, and promptly bought it, spending everything he had to do so.

His plan was to build a small house at the site and thereby ensure he would be surrounded by good fortune for the rest of his life.

Sadly, while lifting smooth river stones to create the foundation of his dream home, he slipped on some mud, hit his head on a stone, was knocked unconscious, tumbled into the water, and drowned.

This conclusively proved to the townsfolk, that the location was not lucky at all.

The moral of this story?

Don't judge a brook by it's clover.

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๐Ÿ‘ค︎ u/LoathsomeNarcisist
๐Ÿ“…︎ Mar 02 2021
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Is this a pun, per se?

Almost 10 years ago now when my daughterโ€™s mom was pregnant with herโ€”waddling miserably towards the tail-end of her third trimester and about ready to popโ€”she looked forlornly at her figure in the mirror one day and announced, โ€œOmigod Iโ€™m as big as a house!โ€

And so I, the Rico Suave motherfucker that I am, popped my head up from the book I was reading on the bed and responded thusly without missing a beat:

โ€œWell, baby girl, if youโ€™re a house then youโ€™re my dream home...โ€

I thought our relationship was my rock on which we would build one hundred stories, but there were termites in the foundation. Unfortunately she ultimately turned out to be a mobile home that couldnโ€™t stay tethered to a single lot for more than a few years at a time as, a short time later, she up-and-skedaddled from our lives and has been a deadbeat mom to our little girl ever since. (My daughter and I built a beautiful, cozy little bungalow-for-two anyways.)

Anyway, does that qualify as a pun, or just an extended metaphor? If not, sorry, I just always thought that was a good line and I wanted to humble-brag a bit.

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๐Ÿ‘ค︎ u/Shadow_Boxer1987
๐Ÿ“…︎ Mar 31 2018
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My dad, an engineer for more than 30 years, saw me putting on foundation. He asked me what it was.

I told him it's foundation. Then he asks, "why, are you going to build a house on top of it?"

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๐Ÿ‘ค︎ u/manicpixie14
๐Ÿ“…︎ Feb 13 2019
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