{"id":1585,"date":"2006-05-23T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2006\/05\/23\/10-puns\/"},"modified":"2006-05-23T08:54:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T14:54:00","slug":"10-puns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2006\/05\/23\/10-puns\/","title":{"rendered":"10 puns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Two vultures board an airplane; each is carrying two dead raccoons.<br \/>The stewardess looks at them and says, &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, gentlemen,<br \/>only one carrion allowed per passenger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2. Two boll weevils grew up in the deep South. One went to Hollywood<br \/>and became a famous actor. The other stayed behind in the cotton fields <br \/>and never amounted to much. The second one, naturally,<br \/>became known as the lesser of two weevils.<\/p>\n<p>3. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, but when they lit a<br \/>fire in the craft, it sank, proving once again that you can&#8217;t have<br \/>your kayak and heat it, too.<\/p>\n<p>4. A three-legged dog walks into a saloon in the Old West.  He slides<br \/>up to the bar and announces: &#8220;I&#8217;m looking for the man who shot<br \/>my paw.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>5. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root<br \/>canal?  He wanted to transcend dental medication.<\/p>\n<p>6. A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were<br \/>standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories.<br \/>After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them<br \/>to disperse.  &#8220;But why?&#8221; they asked, as they moved off.&#8221;Because,&#8221; he said, <br \/>&#8220;I can&#8217;t stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>7. A woman has twins and gives them up for adoption. One of them <br \/>goes to a family in Egypt and is named &#8220;Ahmal.&#8221; The other goes to<br \/>a family in Spain; they name him &#8220;Juan.&#8221; Years later, Juan sends a<br \/>picture of himself to his birth mother. Upon receiving the picture,<br \/>she tells her husband that she wishes she also had a picture of Ahmal.<br \/>Her husband responds, &#8220;They&#8217;re twins! If you&#8217;ve seen Juan,<br \/>you&#8217;ve seen Ahmal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>8. These friars were behind on their belfry payments, so they opened<br \/>up a small florist shop to raise funds. Since everyone liked to<br \/>buy flowers from the men of God, a rival florist across town thought the<br \/>competition was unfair. He asked the good fathers to close<br \/>down, but they would not. He went back and begged the friars to close.<br \/>They ignored him. So, the rival florist hired Hugh MacTaggart,<br \/>the roughest and most vicious thug in town to &#8220;persuade&#8221; them to close.<br \/>Hugh beat up the friars and trashed their store, saying he&#8217;d be<br \/>back if they didn&#8217;t close up shop.  Terrified, they did so, thereby proving <br \/>that Hugh, and only Hugh, can prevent florist friars.<\/p>\n<p>9. Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time,<br \/>which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also<br \/>ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he<br \/>suffered from bad breath.  This made him &#8230; <br \/>A super callused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.<\/p>\n<p>10. The folks at the San Diego zoo heard about some immortal dolphins <br \/>down in the Amazon, so they sent a guy down to bring some back for the zoo.<br \/>After a difficult trip, he was able to find them, and brought them back.<br \/>But soon after they got back to San Diego, they started to die.  The zoo<br \/>sent a team down to the Amazon, and determined that some enzymes in the<br \/>feces of Mynah birds, which dropped into the water, was what kept the<br \/>porpoises alive.  So the team went hunting for some of the Mynah birds <br \/>to bring back to the zoo.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, up in San Diego, a lion had escaped from the state-run zoo, <br \/>and was having a grand old time gallivanting around town, terrorizing<br \/>everyone. He eventually got tired, and lay down to take a nap &#8211; right in front of<br \/>the San Diego zoo entrance.<\/p>\n<p>The team lead got back from the Amazon with the Mynah birds, and had to<br \/>step over the lion in order to get into the zoo.  He was immediately<br \/>arrested for transporting mynahs over state lions for immortal <br \/>porpoises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">1. Two vultures board an airplane; each is carrying two dead raccoons.The stewardess looks at them and says, &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, gentlemen,only one carrion allowed per passenger.&#8221; 2. Two boll weevils grew up in the deep South. One went to Hollywoodand became a famous actor. 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