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    Pun-tificating

    Some of these I've seen but they are still good

    I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.

    Police were called to a daycare where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.

    The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference.

    To write with a broken pencil is pointless.

    When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate.

    A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.

    A thief fell and broke his leg in wet cement. He became a hardened
    criminal.

    We'll never run out of math teachers because they always multiply.

    When the smog lifts in Los Angeles, U C L A.

    The math professor went crazy with the blackboard. He did a number on it.

    The professor discovered that her theory of earthquakes was on shaky ground.


    The dead batteries were given out free of charge.

    A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.

    The optometrist fell into his lens grinder and made a spectacle of himself.
    [That's a story that lens itself.]

    Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

    A backward poet writes inverse.

    In a democracy it's your vote that counts; in feudalism, it's your Count
    that votes.

    A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.

    When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.

    The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.

    A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France, resulted in Linoleum
    Blownapart.

    You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.

    He broke into song because he couldn't find the key.

    A boiled egg is hard to beat.

    He had a photographic memory which was never developed.

    A plateau is a high form of flattery.

    Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.

    When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.

    When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye.

    Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.

    Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.

    Acupuncture: a jab well done
    ' No road is straight forever'

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    There's quite a bit of Ronnie Barker's work in there.
    If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?



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    Yes - some of these guys are quite good - here are some from - The Wit Of Terry Pratchett

    "He blew the dust off the horn and put it to his lips, achieving a sound
    like the ghost of a refried bean."

    "His mind wandered so far it came back with souvenirs."

    "Brother Preptil, the master of the music, had described Brutha's voice as
    putting him in mind of a disappointed vulture arriving too late at the dead
    donkey."

    "This was music that not only had escaped but had robbed a bank on the way
    out."

    "In any normal society, he would have been considered more unglued than a
    used stamp in a downpour."

    "They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving the wrong
    way up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first."

    "...he'd hammered the nails in and glued the strings to them. But this
    wasn't too much of a problem, because Crash himself had the musical talent
    of a blocked nostril."

    "The other musicians around them were, it was true, quite bad. But that's
    all they were. They didn't have a drummer who missed the drums or a bass
    player with the same natural rhythm as a traffic accident."
    ' No road is straight forever'

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    I love Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. So much hilarity in so many books. Many a good hour spent with those, and many a good hour will be spent in the future too
    Soapbox house of cards and glass, so don't go tossing your stones around.
    You musta been.... high. You musta been...


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    Quote Originally Posted by Deviant Esq View Post
    I love Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. So much hilarity in so many books. Many a good hour spent with those, and many a good hour will be spent in the future too

    Mmm - Thanks - I must look at those - love his style - Cheers
    ' No road is straight forever'

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    Quote Originally Posted by V4ME View Post
    Mmm - Thanks - I must look at those - love his style - Cheers
    There's over 30 in the series now, and most can be read independantly of one another - you don't have to read them in order. Can't remember all the ones I've read but I particularly liked "Guards! Guards!" To start off with, I'd recommend reading "The Colour of Magic" and "The Light Fantastic", they're the first two in the series and go together. Still, there are so many good ones it's hard to recommend just a couple.
    Soapbox house of cards and glass, so don't go tossing your stones around.
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    Bring back Rincewind!
    If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?



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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim2 View Post
    Bring back Rincewind!
    Quote: No matter how far a wizard goes, he will always come back for his hat.
    ' No road is straight forever'

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    Couldn't get into the Terry Pratchett stuff - bit too abstract for me. I prefer the Piers Anthony Xanth trilogy (which is a few more books than 3, but definitely not as many as Discworld!).
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