Eukaryotic Puns

Prokaryotes are delivery drivers, eukaryotes are when you pick the food up yourself.

Eukaryote

Eukaryote.

I work as a salesman in a call center. We were going over some of the more interesting names we’ve seen and called. Without disclosing the last name my neighbor said oh, you haven’t heard of “Cytoplasm XXXXXXX”? I answered. The guy is a computer programmer who I’d imagine changed his name to that unless his parents are that cruel. I start rambling off “Cytoplasm?? Of all the organelles in a eukaryotic cell to name yourself you pick cytoplasm?! What about Golgi apparatus, or endoplasmic reticulum?” My manager chimes in “wow you memorized a lot from bio” I told her I went to college for science shit but “now here I am making phone calls as a professional, thanks college” to which my neighbor replies.... “I guess now you could say you’re a PROkaryote

And asks, "Eukaryotes?"

Eukaryotes.

I was talking to my coworkers at lunch about people who are vegetarian/vegan for moral reasons drinking beer.

Coworker: "So where do you draw the line? Like, yeasts are eukaryotes too. Tons will die making your beer. I mean, it's practically a yeast genocide!"

Me: "I suppose you could call it... a Guinness-cide?"

Coworkers: ಠ_ಠ

So my sister is in grade 11, and on a car ride to her game she was asking myself and my parents some questions about her biology course. At one point she asked if we remembered what the two types of cells were, as she could only remember one, the eukaryotes.

Immediately after saying this, my mom chimed in with "if one is eukaryotes, then the other must be eu-dine-in's". Everybody groaned, but I'm fairly certain my dad was very proud in that moment.