The Seahorses Puns

But I shut him down immediately because I'm well aware that it's the past tense of seahorse

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(the joke makes more sense in dutch)

My dad talking to my nephew about his pet horse he used to have.

"My horse was an oddball, wherever we'd go he'd look for water to splash around in. one time we went to the beach and he'd jump into the water and swim around."

Two weeks later we're hanging out and my aunt tells dad she heard the story about his horse, and asked what kind of horse it was.

"a seahorse"

(in dutch he talked about a dog, and a seal in dutch is "zeehond" (seadog))

Me: SEAHORSE!!!

kids: what? Where?

I point to the horse in the field: see? Horse!

Staff members told me that the dwarf seahorse was quite small.

I didn't skip a beat, stating "yeah, he's a bit shrimpy".