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Creative Puns for Smart Minds

Puns--at least the good ones--offer a win-win situation. They simultaneously make you think and make you laugh.

Here are a few that you might enjoy.

No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery. (It's amazing to think that in another generation, kids raised in a paperless high tech world, may not even know what this pun means).

A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.

The roundest knight at King Arthur's Round Table was Sir Cumference.
He acquired his size from too much pi.

I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.

She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.

A rubber band pistol was confiscated in an algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption.

A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.

Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other, You stay here, I'll go on a head.

A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said, Keep off the Grass.

A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, No change yet.

The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.

A backward poet writes inverse.

In a democracy, your vote that counts. In feudalism, it's your count that votes.

When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.




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