A list of puns related to "Crossness"
I have written this book to sweep away all misunderstandings about the crafty art of punnery and to convince you that the pun is well worth celebrating.... After all, the pun is mightier than the sword, and these days you are much more likely to run into a pun than into a sword. [A pun is a witticism involving the playful use of a word in different senses, or of words which differ in meaning but sound alike.]
Scoffing at puns seems to be a conditioned reflex, and through the centuries a steady barrage of libel and slander has been aimed at the practice of punning. Nearly three hundred years ago John Dennis sneered, “A pun is the lowest form of wit,” a charge that has been butted and rebutted by a mighty line of pundits and punheads.
Henry Erskine, for example, has protested that if a pun is the lowest form of wit, “It is, therefore, the foundation of all wit.” Oscar Levant has added a tag line: “A pun is the lowest form of humor—when you don’t think of it first.” John Crosbie and Bob Davies have responded to Dennis with hot, cross puns: “...If someone complains that punning is the lowest form of humor you can tell them that poetry is verse.”
Samuel Johnson, the eighteenth century self-appointed custodian of the English language, once thundered, “To trifle with the vocabulary which is the vehicle of social intercourse is to tamper with the currency of human intelligence. He who would violate the sanctities of his mother tongue would invade the recesses of the national till without remorse... ”
Joseph Addison pronounced that the seeds of punning are in the minds of all men, and tho’ they may be subdued by reason, reflection, and good sense, they will be very apt to shoot up in the greatest genius, that which is not broken and cultivated by the rules of art.
Far from being invertebrate, the inveterate punster is a brave entertainer. He or she loves to create a three-ring circus of words: words clowning, words teetering on tightropes, words swinging from tent tops, words thrusting their head into the mouths of lions. Punnery can be highly entertaining, but it is always a risky business. The humor can fall on its face, it can lose its balance and plunge into the sawdust, or it can be decapitated by the snapping shut of jaws. While circus performers often receive laughter or applause for their efforts, punsters often draw an obligatory groan for theirs. But the fact that most people groan at, rather than laugh at, puns doesn’t mean that the punnery isn’t fu
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The vet advised he was too heavy to hold any longer.
They were opening a new branch on the other side
Not sure !! But when it megabytes, it megahertz.
Elephino 🤷🏻♂️
A walkie-talkie
That was the punchline
Because I put on the wrong socks this morning.
Bakin'
Ele-phi-no.
So I say, "It's been training"
you get two animals in a baaaaaaaad moooooooood
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The Redundan-Sea
Canoe?
A porkupine.
It got stuck in a crack
Frostbite!
bullshit.
Because the chicken had the day off.
Neither my wife or I have any idea where she heard this. And she isn’t divulging her sources. Hilarious.
Edit: The first joke she’s told in general. And happened to be a dad joke. :-)
A painful game.
About halfway.
Because it was poultry in motion.
Boot camp!
Napoleon Blown-Apart!!!
Because the chicken wasn’t born yet.
I said, “You’re the ones blocking!”
But it's too late....she sank.
Because she was an X.
Me neither, I couldn't follow it.
A fjord fusion.
To get to the second hand store.
So I packed her things and left.
I don't know, I couldn't hear him.
He didn't have the guts.
Ell if I no
To go to the auto repair shop to get his pick up cluck.
It's best to start with a small Country.
Why did she always want me to check the time?
different
A poultrygeist!
It got stuck in a crack.
Frostbite.
About halfway.
is poultry in motion.
Because I wore the wrong Socks on...
It was stuck in a crack.
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