Even during the 19th century, puns are used in literature too.
πŸ‘︎ 113
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/soundwjs
πŸ“…︎ Mar 13 2017
🚨︎ report
A century ago, two brothers insisted that it was possible to fly ...

... and as you can see, they were Wright

πŸ‘︎ 11k
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/LordCinko
πŸ“…︎ Jan 18 2021
🚨︎ report
Coming this fall to CBS, a new sitcom about a pair of actresses living in the 17th Century...

It’s called β€œ2 Baroque Girls”.

πŸ‘︎ 4
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/bgva
πŸ“…︎ Apr 07 2021
🚨︎ report
Islam, Judaism, and Christianity have been in conflict with each other for centuries.

Hindus, on the other hand, never had any beef.

πŸ‘︎ 27
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/porichoygupto
πŸ“…︎ Mar 02 2021
🚨︎ report
Just read an amazing account of a 13th-Century siege.

Just read an amazing account of a 13th-Century siege.

The attackers killed the duke's son, knocking him from the battlements with a peasant's severed head fired from a trebuchet.

It was the first recorded instance of a serf-face-to-heir missile.

From Twitter.

πŸ‘︎ 7
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/WWTSound
πŸ“…︎ Feb 17 2021
🚨︎ report
Catholic priests were forbidden from learning math until the 20th century

Before that it was a cardinal Sin

πŸ‘︎ 3
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/Ramiel01
πŸ“…︎ Feb 12 2021
🚨︎ report
So yall know how people used wooden dentures in the 19th century? I wonder if women ever tried or thought of using the same idea to increase boob size.

That would be something, now wooden tit?

πŸ‘︎ 27
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/phx14_
πŸ“…︎ Jan 11 2021
🚨︎ report
The 21st century is now old enough to drink.

And you thought the sober years were bad

πŸ‘︎ 5
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/JadedByEntropy
πŸ“…︎ Jan 01 2021
🚨︎ report
After a half century of study, I’ve discovered the true connection between mind and body.

It’s the neck.

πŸ‘︎ 2
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/pauldeanbumgarner
πŸ“…︎ Jan 18 2021
🚨︎ report
Have you seen the movie about production methods of boats, planes, and bridges in the 20th century?

I can't remember the name but it's riveting.

πŸ‘︎ 8
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/Joey_the_Duck
πŸ“…︎ Jan 02 2021
🚨︎ report
I just read that times were real tough for musicians in the early 17th century...

They were all Baroque

πŸ‘︎ 15
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/qwopcircles
πŸ“…︎ Oct 30 2020
🚨︎ report
I'm holding a 17th Century Party, and all the Enlightenment thinkers can swing by - except one.

Immanuel Kan't.

πŸ‘︎ 10
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/Supah_Cole
πŸ“…︎ Oct 17 2020
🚨︎ report
How did women in the 16th century stay fit?

They worked their core-set

πŸ‘︎ 18
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/swaghettigod
πŸ“…︎ Oct 13 2020
🚨︎ report
Tootsie Pops finally got into the 21st century and created a Facebook page. With it, they created a new catchphrase.

How many likes does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?

πŸ‘︎ 2
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/callmefinny
πŸ“…︎ Nov 04 2020
🚨︎ report
Why is first-century Rome like a 2-star restaurant?

Neither one is concerned about cross contamination.

πŸ‘︎ 2
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/CognitiveNerd1701
πŸ“…︎ Oct 22 2020
🚨︎ report
Dads in 2999 be like

See you next week See you next month See you next year See you next decade See you next century See you next millenium

πŸ‘︎ 15
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/ThyDad69
πŸ“…︎ Mar 21 2021
🚨︎ report
It’s the Melony of the century
πŸ‘︎ 11
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/lliH-knaH
πŸ“…︎ May 22 2020
🚨︎ report
Just saw Mark Knopfler walking down the Road...

He was carrying a 19th century French masterpiece under his arm and a cage with 2 baby birds in his hand.

I asked how much they were and he said, "I got my Monet for nothing and the Chicks for free".

πŸ‘︎ 17
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/adfunk101
πŸ“…︎ Mar 11 2021
🚨︎ report
A woman is walking through the park when she sees a very attractive man sitting on a park bench. He's reading a book and eating some fruit out of a Tupperware container. Slowly the woman gathers the courage to go ask the man out...

So, she walks over and takes a seat next to him on the bench, turns to him and says, "Sorry to bother you. I know this may be a little forward but I would love to grab coffee with you some time."

Flattered, the man responds, "Sure... but what makes you so certain you and I would get along so well?"

"Well..." the woman says. "A couple things, actually. I noticed you were wearing an Iron Maiden t-shirt. Iron Maiden are my favorite band of all time. When they went on their reunion tour in 1999, my parents took me to see them in Cleveland. I was 12 years old and it was the first concert I ever went to. I absolutely love Iron Maiden."

The man can't believe it.

"I saw them play Cleveland in '99! First concert I ever went to on my own. My best friend Jimmy Spitz and I told our parents we were sleeping at each others' houses, snuck out, took a bus into the city and saw them play at the Plain Dealer Pavillion!"

Naturally, they're both shocked.

"If that isn't weird enough..." says the woman. "I noticed you're reading Mark Twain. I was a communications major in university and I actually wrote my thesis on Mark Twain and how he used satire as a lens to comment on current events of the time, comparing him to satirical news sources of today. He's my favorite author."

Now the man is really taken aback, "Get out of here! I was an English major in university! I specialized in 19th century American literature and this is like my fourth or fifth time reading Tom Sawyer, I absolutely love Mark Twain."

They both can't believe it...this has got to be a match made in heaven.

"Ok..." the woman says. "Well, buckle up because here's the icing on the cake. I noticed you're eating a prune. Prunes are my absolute favorite fruit. When I was a kid, my grandfather lived on a farm. He had an orchard that mainly grew apples and some lemons, but he knew how much my sister and I loved prunes so he kept a couple of plum trees. Every year at the end of the summer, we'd go up and harvest the plums with him. He'd dry them and by the time we'd go back to his place for Thanksgiving he'd always have those prunes saved just for us. They're my favorite fruit! I love prunes, you're eating a prune, this has got to be fate. What do you say?"

The man puts down his fruit and responds,

"It's a date!"

πŸ‘︎ 17k
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/madazzahatter
πŸ“…︎ Aug 21 2020
🚨︎ report
I had a job repairing 17th century violins...

I only fixed instruments that were BAROQUE.

πŸ‘︎ 6
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/youtellmebob
πŸ“…︎ Jan 12 2020
🚨︎ report
I won the lottery and squandered most of it on buying 17th century artwork and musical instruments.

It left me baroque.

πŸ‘︎ 2
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/Rav4xle
πŸ“…︎ May 25 2020
🚨︎ report
β€œOil on canvas”——Anonymous Artist, circa 21st century.
πŸ‘︎ 213
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/porichoygupto
πŸ“…︎ Dec 28 2018
🚨︎ report
β€œOil on Canvas.”—- Anonymous Artist, circa 21st century.
πŸ‘︎ 20
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/porichoygupto
πŸ“…︎ Oct 18 2019
🚨︎ report
Even Ferdinand Feghoot could be outpunned on occasion – but he always rose to the challenge.

There was, for instance, the time he conducted a crew of new S.A.R.H. (Society for the Aesthetic Rearrangement of History -BJ) recruits – all from late twentieth-century Terra – on a training study of Carter’s World, a newly established agricultural colony attempting to support itself by the export of edible nuts. Barely into their second generation, and having yet to show a profit, the colonists were technologically backward. Nevertheless, they showed a surprising ingenuity in the use of their few advantages. It was this resourcefulness that Feghoot was demonstrating to his rookies.

β€œLook at the perfection with which these streets are graded”, exclaimed one student. β€œEarth-moving machinery on this scale is strictly high technology stuff. How can they do it?”

β€œA new alleyway is being constructed, nearby”, said Feghoot. β€œLet us walk that way while I explain.” As they strolled, he told his students that countless centuries before, the Carter’s World system had been inhabited by a now-vanished race of giants. This very planet had served them for a nursery, and among the many artifacts they had left were thousands of childrens blocks, immense and precision-cut. You simply jack one up onto logs, bring it where you want it, put collapsible jacks underneath, snake out the logs, spread soil more or less evenly beneath, and collapse the jacks.

β€œI see”, said the student. β€œIt’s not graded road at all; its a simple hammered-earth base.”

β€œThat’s right,” Feghoot went on smoothly. β€œYou just hit the road jack and don’t come back no mo.”

His students registered dismay and anguish.

β€œIsn’t that right, old-timer?,” Feghoot demanded of an ancient Carterian standing by the mouth of the newly completed alley they had just reached.

β€œAhm afraid not, suh”, said the senior citizen, and the students giggled at Feghoots discomfiture. β€œOh, we used to do it that way, but it was far too much trouble. It’s the soil heah. You see, the very same soil which produced our famous cashews is so high in clay content that a child could roll out a road of it. Then, we simply use a system of lenses to bake it into hardness. Ahve just completed this alley mahself, and ahm just a retired professor of Sports History, much too old and feeble to handle hydraulic jacks.

β€œSo you see,” he finished, eyes twinkling, β€œMah hammered alley is really cashews clay.”

Howls of agony rose from the students, but Feghoot never hesitated. β€œAnd he”, he said, turning to his students, β€œis clearly the gradi

... keep reading on reddit ➑

πŸ‘︎ 6
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/nomnommish
πŸ“…︎ Jan 13 2021
🚨︎ report
Santa and the elves are drinking around the fire and one of the elves says:

β€œSanta: you’ve been around since the 4th century, seen alphabets and languages rise and fall. Do you have a favorite letter?”

Claus thinks about it, scratches his thick white beard and says: β€œA B C D E F G H I J K M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z”

β€œWell Santa, I just asked for one. What does that mean?”

β€œAnd I gave you one! My favorite letter of the alphabet is the most Christmasy one out there! No-L!”

πŸ‘︎ 11
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ“…︎ Dec 29 2020
🚨︎ report
Fight of the century?
πŸ‘︎ 12
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/AmethystMonkey
πŸ“…︎ May 13 2019
🚨︎ report
Plz halp, I need as many vegetable puns as possible ASAP, the epic vegetable pun battle of the century is now being waged and I am quickly running out of ammo while the enemy shows no signs of retreat
πŸ‘︎ 4
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/GoofyGoober1999
πŸ“…︎ Jul 22 2018
🚨︎ report
What do you call an 18th century bottle of perfume from America

A colongneial

πŸ‘︎ 7
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ“…︎ Oct 15 2019
🚨︎ report
One of the greatest artists of the 20th century
πŸ‘︎ 21
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/AmethystMonkey
πŸ“…︎ Mar 27 2019
🚨︎ report
Why were composers in the 18th century so poor?

Because they were baroque.

I'll be Bach with more jokes soon.

πŸ‘︎ 20
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/kirillsimin
πŸ“…︎ Oct 01 2018
🚨︎ report
This explains the early-20th century intelligent look
πŸ‘︎ 54
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/Kauntest
πŸ“…︎ Sep 21 2018
🚨︎ report
Gabe had a heavy load this semester

Math, physics, comp sci. The only easy class was "The American Century." Open book midterm and final, so he wasn't going to do any of the reading all semester.

β€œIt’s a huge waste of time, Dad,” he laughed when I objected. β€œI’m not learning a damn thing in the class.”

β€œWell, then you’re just going to have to take that class over again,” I snapped at him.

β€œWhat are you talking about?” he yelped.

β€œYou know why, Gabe,” I said. β€œThose who don’t learn from history are condemned to repeat it.”

πŸ‘︎ 11
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/cja1968
πŸ“…︎ Nov 21 2020
🚨︎ report
This one's for them 9th century bois
πŸ‘︎ 17
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/AlliedLens
πŸ“…︎ Nov 06 2018
🚨︎ report
They only started selling music in the 17th Century.

It was during the BAROQUE era!

πŸ‘︎ 6
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/Willfreckles
πŸ“…︎ Jan 28 2019
🚨︎ report
If you wrote down the names of all the works by a 19th century Polish composer...

...you'd have a Chopin List.

πŸ‘︎ 5
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/bubonis
πŸ“…︎ Jul 09 2019
🚨︎ report
There was an old man who lived by a forest. As he grew older and older, he started losing his hair, until one day, on his deathbed, he was completely bald. That day, he called his children to a meeting...

He said, "Look at my hair. It used to be so magnificent, but it's completely gone now. My hair can't be saved. But look outside at the forest. It's such a lovely forest with so many trees, but sooner or later they'll all be cut down and this forest will look as bald as my hair."

"What I want you to do..." the man continued. "Is, every time a tree is cut down or dies, plant a new one in my memory. Tell your descendants to do the same. It shall be our family's duty to keep this forest strong."

So they did.

Each time the forest lost a tree, the children replanted one, and so did their children, and their children after them.

And for centuries, the forest remained as lush and pretty as it once was, all because of one man and his re-seeding heirline.

πŸ‘︎ 21k
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/honolulu_oahu_mod
πŸ“…︎ Sep 02 2019
🚨︎ report
People in the 17th century were so baroque...

there was constant luting in the streets

πŸ‘︎ 3
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/Chateau512
πŸ“…︎ Jun 17 2019
🚨︎ report
If Disney, who own Marvel, also acquire 20th century Fox, they could remake Die Hard

With Avengers

πŸ‘︎ 52
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/Iplaymeinreallife
πŸ“…︎ Dec 12 2017
🚨︎ report
Court Chester: Cell of the Century

Chester, the defendant, stood in front of the judge's imposing bench, waiting patiently for the reason why he was there. To further muddle the moment, he stared at items unfamiliar to him, at least in that context.

Perched on and near His Honor's desk were the following: A DuraLast Ultra in one car with a long, black cord stretching to another car, several alkaline D cells plugged into a black box, and lastly, a cell phone with its cord sticking into the wall.

Finally removing Chester's questioned look was his attorney leaning into his ear to whisper, "It's official, now: You're facing battery charges."

πŸ‘︎ 4
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/bradstros
πŸ“…︎ Mar 27 2019
🚨︎ report
Back in 20th century everybody thought we would land on Mars by 2021 ...

I guess hindsight is 2020 ..!

πŸ‘︎ 3
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/afarro
πŸ“…︎ Apr 03 2019
🚨︎ report
All work and no plague makes for a very different 13th Century.
πŸ‘︎ 27
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/Mairiphinc
πŸ“…︎ May 04 2017
🚨︎ report
What's a 15th Century Mexican's favorite type of technology?

Az-tech

πŸ‘︎ 4
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/longconsilver13
πŸ“…︎ Jul 07 2018
🚨︎ report
I won the lottery and spent all my winnings on 17th century paintings and classical instruments

It left me baroque.

πŸ‘︎ 29
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/Clbull
πŸ“…︎ Oct 25 2017
🚨︎ report
Found on r/MapPorn on a map about Islamic Conquest of Iberia in the 8th century
πŸ‘︎ 2
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/Lord_jupitr
πŸ“…︎ Jul 05 2018
🚨︎ report
A century ago, two brothers claimed that it was possible to fly.

They were Wright

πŸ‘︎ 11
πŸ’¬︎
πŸ‘€︎ u/tedioustiger
πŸ“…︎ Feb 02 2020
🚨︎ report

Please note that this site uses cookies to personalise content and adverts, to provide social media features, and to analyse web traffic. Click here for more information.