Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Time to Groan

Wow, I'm tired, and you guys did most of the work! Thanks so much for joining in. We had a lot of fun with the story adventure.
Ready for something new? Well, how is your punnybone? This may be a little harder for the younger set, but you can always enlist help ( try JT, he's a natural at this....).

As you may know, a pun is a play on words, something that is funny (or not) because a word can be used in different ways. This week, you are to come up with a sentence that contains a fun pun, and where the rest of the sentence works with the pun. You might think of one right off the bat, or you might just try to think of a word that has more than one meaning and build a sentence around it. Words with lots of syllables (like in #4, below) sometimes work great! Or you can define a word in a "punny" way. And, as before, you can put as many as you want. You don't even have to wait on 2 people this time.


Here are some examples I came up with, to get you started (you might have to think about them before they will make sense):


1. Permanent wave: What Miss America's hand was cramped into, after the parade.


2. "I know there was a truckload of hay in that barn yesterday!" Farmer Joe said loftily.


3. "But, Doctor, I have no idea how I managed to swallow the peach seeds," she wailed pitifully.


4. "But Dad! Lassie's gotten into the canteloupes again!" hollered Farmer Joe's boy, Hick, in a melancholy voice.
(By the way, the lovely pastry above is a ......pi. Think twice before you enlist Ben's help with Christmas dinner. :)
Your turn.........

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

"That kite is flightfully high!" exclaimed the boy to his friend. :)
-CW-

Anonymous said...

The man with the sketchy beard withdrew his pencil from the paper with a flourish.

Anonymous said...

"Eggselent!" praised the farmer to the hen sitting atop her large pile of eggs.
-Catherine W-

Anonymous said...

"Thanks for helping me slice the cheese." Johnbob said gratefully.

Anonymous said...

"Let's go eat at Torero's," said blog marm rather salsaly(saucily).
Cathy S

Anonymous said...

: )

Anonymous said...

"You can use the scissors." Charity offered sharpely.

nlig said...

Notice in the picture that if you separate the letters, pi is also JT :)

Anonymous said...

"I just love camping!" Tom said inTENTly.

Elisa

Ben said...

ah yes, I meant it to say JT, of course. That is, I taylored it specifically to say JT.

Anonymous said...

"Pass me the corn" he said irritably. (Earritably)
Josh S

Anonymous said...

Mr.Cider married Miss Vinegar and they lived apply ever after.
Josh,Cathy & Hannah S

Anonymous said...

or should we have said apple-ly
Josh, Cathy & Hannah S

Anonymous said...

What the executioner said after beheading the wrong man..."I'm sorry...it was an ax-ident."
Caleb S