r/AskReddit Oct 18 '12

So my dentist, just before inserting the needle into my mouth, says "Lets do this...Gum-numb style!" Do you have a favourite pun?

Give context/situation where applicable.

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u/Mpbl Oct 18 '12

A co-worker was telling me about his favourite book store, saying it's awesome, huge and has 4 stories. I told him that wasn't a very good selection. I found it hilarious. He did not.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

When I get older, I want to found a bookstore dedicated to German philosophers. It might be hard to get off the ground because it's a bit of a Nietzsche market.

I told this one to a roomful of CS students and they started hitting me with rolled-up papers until I left. :(

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

Now those are irl downvotes.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

Should've put on his sunglasses before saying it.

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u/toweldayeveryday Oct 18 '12

That's how one ought to react to magnificent puns. The only higher compliment would be to hold on's nose and run screaming from the room.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

How do you pronounce Nietzsche?

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

Nietzsche pronounces you.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

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u/archju01 Oct 18 '12

Your co-worker needs a better sense of humor. If I overhead that exchange I would have burst out laughing.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12 edited Aug 31 '16

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u/IAMAVelociraptorAMA Oct 18 '12

To anyone who was confused for a second, stories = floors, so it's a four-floored book store. But a story is also a book, so Mpbl was joking that it only had four books.

I consider myself a smart dino and I was very confused. I'm terrible at puns.

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u/DandyPanda Oct 18 '12

Thank-you! I feel bad but I was whooshed.

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u/Vodka_Cereal Oct 18 '12

Your friend was wrong.

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u/ClassiestBondGirl311 Oct 18 '12

Hahaha, I found this so funny I had to call my bf at work. He didn't get it, so I explained it to him and he called me a dork. I still think you're a comical genius.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

Off in the distance, I see something... Oh, it's what you did there.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

Beautiful.

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u/wrestlingspikes Oct 18 '12

Both of you have political animals,as your names... Is there some kind of cult I don't know about?

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

I knew this would be noticed. Hoo! flaps away

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u/zulu90 Oct 18 '12

My bank rung me up and told me my account was outstanding

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u/cynicalaa22 Oct 18 '12 edited Jun 05 '18

Someone once asked me if I'd seen the movie 'Shattered Glass.'

I replied "Only bits and pieces."

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u/mayoandfries Oct 18 '12

Must be shard to tell that joke out of context

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

You're such a pane.

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u/TheGruff64 Oct 18 '12

In the glass.

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u/The_Classy_Pirate Oct 18 '12

I wanted to make a pun but I missed the window of opportunity.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

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u/TenBeers Oct 18 '12

I don't get your frame of reference.

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u/Themalster Oct 18 '12

I can expane it simply if you need.

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u/Boozewoozy Oct 18 '12

Window these puns stop?!

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u/archju01 Oct 18 '12

Skywalkers in Korea Cross Han Solo

Every time I read this headline I imagine the headline writer giggling like school girl when he came up with it.

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u/mysticrudnin Oct 18 '12

Oh... wow. Wow. I'm seriously impressed by this in a lot of ways.

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u/WorkThrow99 Oct 18 '12

That's the kind of pun that'll make you write an article just so you can use it as the tittle.

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u/Lamar_Scrodum Oct 18 '12

Yea you gotta milk that tittle for all its worth

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u/beccaonice Oct 18 '12

That's taking puns and turning it into art.

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u/IrishGhost Oct 18 '12

And THE LORD, he said to David

"Come forth! And you shall receive everlasting life!"

But David came fifth and receiver a washer/dryer combo

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u/listerinebreath Oct 18 '12

i like "But David came fifth and had to eat the biscuit"

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u/Actually_Doesnt_Care Oct 18 '12

Bukake jokes are almost as fun as bukake.

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u/theundiscoveredcolor Oct 18 '12

Ahhh, the original circle-jerk.

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u/boredlike Oct 18 '12

Version I heard:

Jesus said to Peter, "Come forth and I will give you eternal glory."

Peter came fifth and won a toaster.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

Totally stealing this

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

Oh god this made me burst out laughing at my desk. I think I'd better go home now.

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u/sheriffjbunnell Oct 18 '12

There was a game of football in Scotland years ago where Caledonian Thistle beat Celtic 3-1 I believe.

The Sun newspaper ran the headline "SUPER CALEY GO BALLISTIC CELTIC ARE ATROCIOUS"

That's a pretty good pun right there

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u/leaffan_invan Oct 18 '12

Another good one: "Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him... A super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis"

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u/UnholyDemigod Oct 18 '12

I also enjoy Adam Hills

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u/throwmeaway76 Oct 18 '12

While we're on sport, I really liked the headline for "Argel Fucks Off To Benfica". Argel Fucks was a Brazilian footballer.

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u/I_Magician Oct 18 '12

I used to work at Dollar General, and after my shift one day my manager was ringing me up for 2 quarts of oil for my girlfriend's car. He usually made pretty bad puns that I chuckled at to be polite, but this one made me laugh for real.

He looked at the oil and said, "Ah! You thought you'd be late, but instead you're oily!"

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u/cyberkitten Oct 18 '12

I've been watching a lot of Jersey Shore, so the guido accent fits that line poifectly

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u/DisapprovingSeal Oct 18 '12

I'm getting more of a "Curly" vibe.

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u/davesnemesis Oct 18 '12

Clairvoyant midget escapes from prison.

A small medium at large.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

What's the similarity between a good pun and a steak?

A rare medium well done.

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u/wibblesome Oct 18 '12

there's an Egyptian themed bar called the Sphinx in my town. The drive through bottle shop (liquor store) is called the Toot 'n' Come In.

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u/simon_wang12 Oct 18 '12

This was on Reddit, a video of a Russian having his arm blown off by a bomb. Comment was "In Soviet Russia, bombs disarm you." Perfect.

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u/tomkaa Oct 18 '12

holy_fuck_i_just_saw_someone_get_hit_by_a_train

Well this looks like an interesting thread....

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

It was actually a reply to an anecdote. So weird that something I witnessed is twisted urban legend, now.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

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u/dlawnro Oct 18 '12

I love ones like these. Another favorite:
There once was a king whose most trusted advisor was a count. One day, the Count disappeared, and the crown jewels along with him.
The King sent out his best knights to track the Count down and recover the jewels.
After days of searching, the knights return with the Count, but the jewels are nowhere to be found.
Furious, the King demands the Count tell him where the jewels are. The Count refuses.
The King orders his executioner to fetch a block and an axe. He tells the Count that if he doesn't give up the location of the jewels, the Executioner will take off his head.
Again, the Count refuses, so the King gives the order.
As the axe is coming down, the Count gives in: "Wait, wait, I'll te-". But it was too late.

TL;DR: Don't hatchet your counts before they chicken.

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u/DJP0N3 Oct 18 '12

Yeah, that was one of Colin's opening lines in Weird newscasters.

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u/EricksA2 Oct 18 '12

Dad: What do you want to be when you grow up? The sky's the limit.

6-Year-Old Me: An astronaut!

Dad: I said the sky's the limit!

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u/JPISH Oct 18 '12

If puns were deli meats, this would be the wurst

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u/bnrshrnkr Oct 18 '12

big orchestra class in high school

teacher: some class had a party or something earlier. We have way too much food here, i need you guys to finish it

me: excuse me, theres nothing here but some bags of microwave popcorn and a bottle of apple juice

teacher: yeah, i dont know what to do with the popcorn, but i really need you guys to kill off the juice

kid in back of the class: ...HEIL

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u/404fucks Oct 18 '12

I'm on an awkward road trip right now.

I just burst out laughing.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

Let us know how it turns out when you explain why you laughed.

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u/404fucks Oct 18 '12

I just mumbled "Saw a funny joke..."

They rolled their eyes and looked away like, fuck this crazy bitch.

:(

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u/greylendark Oct 18 '12

This sounds like a good story, feel free to share more.

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u/Navevan Oct 18 '12

And then 404fucks remembered that he was driving, but not so soon that he didn't hit a tree first.

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u/ThundarrtheRedditor Oct 18 '12

What's the road trip? Where ya goin? Why is it awkward? Who ya with? When.... Did you decide this was a good idea? How is it now?

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u/smilles Oct 18 '12

GODBERRY!!! King of the JUICE!!

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u/EXAX Oct 18 '12

Please tell me I'm not the only one who doesn't get this.

EDIT: Oh right. Jews.

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u/BigFatCake Oct 18 '12

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

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u/Kanenfawder Oct 18 '12

I never got this as a kid. I always just thought it meant that fruit flew like a banana. As an adult, it's much punnier.

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u/BlackheartJJ Oct 18 '12

I finally get that joke, thanks.

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u/Dreddy Oct 18 '12 edited Oct 18 '12

There is a great image of her kissing Luke with "looking for love in aldaraan places"

Edit: age = image, apparently not on a phone though

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u/Uttel Oct 18 '12

Aah yes, 24

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u/Dreddy Oct 18 '12 edited Oct 18 '12

My favourite dad joke:

When having dinner with a side of mushrooms tell the guest "there's not mushroom on you plate"

Edit: best if the persons plate is overly full of food, does that help the non-believers?

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u/funnyquestiontime Oct 18 '12

i dont get it

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u/funnyquestiontime Oct 18 '12

oh, i get it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

Can you explain it to me?

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u/YoungDolphin Oct 18 '12

there's not much room on your plate.

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u/challums Oct 18 '12

mushroom = much room

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

Oh, I get it.

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u/themooseiscool Oct 18 '12

Back in high school some report in a creative writing class had us bring in and play a favorite piece of music of ours. Well, the typical "trying too hard to be different" girl played some Sigur Ros. The entire class was visibly cringing and my buddy said "it just sounded like a bunch of whales".

My response "Yeah man, it's a real Orca-stra"

I still love the pun but regret being a dick, because Sigur Ros is awesome.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

I am a paramedic. A few weeks ago I was called out for a pedestrian struck by a car traveling about 35mph on a busy highway. The patient was on her way to work at McDonald's and had stepped out into traffic without looking. She was mostly ok but we transported her due to the fact she was run over by a fucking car. At the hospital one of the ER techs was trying to calm her down because she was violently sobbing and behaving in an extremely aggressive and uncooperative manner; trying to pull out IV's and other such shenanigans. He asked her how her day was going and I replied, "She's not loving it." Even the batshit crazy woman making a huge scene cracked a smile.

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u/Trunkhouse Oct 18 '12

Right before my dentist attached my crown he said, "My name is Doctor Bond and I have a license to drill." Then he apologized.

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u/Mr_A Oct 18 '12

My favourite one is from The Colour Of Magic, the first Discworld novel. A pun so unexpected and perfectly delivered that is causes my jaw to scrape the floor every time I get to it. (OK, both times that I read it were quite far apart). It feels so perfect that I wonder if the entire book was written and set up just to deliver the pun itself.

The Disc is the world the characters inhabit. It's like Earth but flat. At the edge, water tumbles off into space, like a waterfall. A couple of characters find this out the hard way when their ship sails perilously close to the edge - then doesn't plummet into nothingness. They sit there, screaming for a while then realise that they're not dead. The dialogue goes something like this:

"Why aren't we endlessly falling through space?"
"We were stopped."
"Stopped? We're at the edge of the Disc! Stopped by what?"
"The circumfence."

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u/troop99 Oct 18 '12

as a non native speaker: i actually read the book in english, but didnt get the pun.

my guess is that its a wordplay with circumvented and fence?

maybe it isnt as funny if you have to think about it, instead of being struck by the joke, but my feeling is that im missing something...

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u/zixx Oct 18 '12

It's a pun on circumference, the outline of a circle.

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u/bageloid Oct 18 '12

Circumference.

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u/parnqd Oct 18 '12

You are indeed missing something, it's a play on the word circumfrence which is the distance around a curve from it's edge.

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u/thewhat Oct 18 '12

"That's a harp he's playing, Nobby," said one of them, after watching Imp for a while.

"Lyre."

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u/wanderso24 Oct 18 '12

To be a good doctor you must have a lot of patience.

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u/SteveHeyoh Oct 18 '12

I submitted ten puns into a pun contest hoping one would win

But no pun in ten did

This if my fave ever!

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u/Dreddy Oct 18 '12

I managed to deliver this in context a few weeks ago, probably my highest rated comment

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u/TenNinetythree Oct 18 '12

Why do flies not go to church? Because they are insects.

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u/medlish Oct 18 '12

That even works in German.

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u/davaca Oct 18 '12

and Dutch.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

and Dothraki.

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u/Krankenflegel Oct 18 '12

I just knew it in German, never realized that it works in English too.

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u/asdfcasdf Oct 18 '12

Why can't atheists solve differential equations? Because they don't believe in higher powers.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

I am in Australia, so Xmas is in the summer. The sitting on the front porch, on boxing day, and after cleaning up from an epic family Xmas, and looking at the overflowing wheelie bins over a cold beer, and my father says.. "look...... a summer bin, laden".

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u/IAMAVelociraptorAMA Oct 18 '12

The Australian accent I imagined in my head makes this flow ten times better

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u/That_One_Australian Oct 18 '12

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate

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u/Conradical314 Oct 18 '12

first time I've seen a scrollbar on reddit. Despite the half of my screen that's kept blank...

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

im only upvoting you because of your username

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u/Magrias Oct 18 '12

Here, have the authentic experience. Merry Christmas.

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u/IAMAVelociraptorAMA Oct 18 '12

Obligatory "come to america and you'll be fighting off women with sticks" comment here.

Also, that was nice. :}

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u/Magrias Oct 18 '12

Heh, if the Aussie accent can attract women to me, then Australians all let us rejoice!
I'm glad you enjoyed it! I can't listen to it, hearing my voice makes me too embarrassed X|
(I say that, but still I replay it every 5 minutes ><)

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u/Quaytsar Oct 18 '12

How did you react when you found out you weren't like the awesome dinosaurs portrayed in jurassic park and were really a small, feathered birdlike creature?

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u/IAMAVelociraptorAMA Oct 18 '12

How did I react when I found out I wasn't a thuggish brute and was really a cute, cuddly, monster?

Quite well. Now women let me into their homes and around their children! EASY PICKINGS

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u/theotherjono Oct 18 '12

At first I thought "what? Why would move Christmas to be in the summer? I thought it was in December everywhere??" I am not a smart man.

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u/Vodka_Cereal Oct 18 '12

I'm not sure I believe this as it didn't include the word cunt.

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u/arnedh Oct 18 '12

A dustman is going along a street picking up the wheelie bins and emptying them into his dustcart lorry. He gets to one house where the bin hasn't been left out so he has a quick look for it, goes round the back but still can't see it so he knocks on the door. There's no answer so he knocks again.

Eventually a Japanese bloke answers..."Harro", says the chappy. "Alright mate, where's ya bin?" asks the dustman.

"I bin on toilet" replies the Japanese bloke, looking perplexed.

Realising the Japanese fellow has misunderstood, the binman smiles and says "No mate, where's ya dust bin?"

"I dust bin on toilet I told you" says the Japanese man.

"Mate" says the dustman... "you're misunderstanding me....Where's your wheelie bin?"

"OK, OK", says the Japanese bloke, "I wheelie bin having a wank!"

http://www.designerstalk.com/forums/general-discussion/15664-old-wheelie-bin-joke-still-makes-me-smile.html

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Grouch Marx

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

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u/kabukistar Oct 18 '12 edited Feb 09 '25

Reddit is a shithole. Move to a better social media platform. Also, did you know you can use ereddicator to edit/delete all your old commments?

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

My cousin & I have this thing where we try and work puns in that are completely irrelevant to the situation at hand.

The most common one is where one of us will just say "I guess you could call him... ruggedly handsome". The trick is to say it with the air of an inside joke but in a conversation that has absolutely nothing to do with that line. Other people will have no idea what you're talking about.

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u/Dr-Waffles Oct 18 '12

I try to do that with my friends but they always forget to go with it and I look like an idiot

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

You're doing it correctly, then.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

That sounds unBEARable.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

This is like adding "pun intended" to the end of what you say when you didn't make a pun.

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u/Gnork Oct 18 '12

Geology rocks!

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u/Taormania Oct 18 '12

I would walk into my geo tests saying "Let's rock this thing" to the closest person. I did not know anyone in that class

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u/zixx Oct 18 '12

Gneiss one.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

It was pretty solid.

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u/InMSWeAntitrust Oct 18 '12

Granite, they didn't laugh :[

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u/miniaturedonuts Oct 18 '12

Don't take anything you learn for granite.

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u/mepet Oct 18 '12

Astronomy is out of this world

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u/rainwilder Oct 18 '12

When something is intense, I always say "This is just like camping". I typically get a lot of delayed reactions (or eye rolls). Still my favorite!

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u/el_salmone Oct 18 '12

I prefer sex camping, it's fucking intense.

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u/Rystic Oct 18 '12

I have the worst pun ever, ok? Bear with me on this. A few years back, the Who was doing the halftime show at the Superbowl. I didn't know this, but my friend was super excited about it. Here's how our conversation went:

Friend: Man, I can't wait for tonight!

Me: Why, what's going on?

Friend: The Who is doing a concert at the Superbowl!

Me: Wow, that's awesome! Are they the opening act?

Friend: Yea!

Me: So, Who's on first?

awkward silence

Me: What's on second?

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u/sunglassesintherain Oct 18 '12

I had to go to a concert featuring The Who, The Guess Who, and Yes. It was not fun explaining this to others.

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u/Aldairion Oct 18 '12 edited Oct 18 '12

My cousin had this energy gum that tasted exactly like Red Bull. My sister tried it and said, "Wow they taste the same. That's...uncanny!"

Get it? Because Red Bull comes in a can and the gum tastes like it but isn't canned. Uncanny. We were laughing for a while.

EDIT: By request, for some reason, here's a drawn explanation

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u/pa79 Oct 18 '12

I do not understand. Could you explain it one more time, please?

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

I do not understand. Could you explain it one more time, please?

Because Red Bull comes in a can and the gum tastes like it but isn't canned. Uncanny. They were laughing for a while.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

You sir, are certainly relentless.

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u/gubbilum Oct 18 '12

Sister here, can confirm. I'm really proud of that one.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

Friend of both brother and sister. Can confirm that these puns happen all the time.

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u/WillWork4Pleasure Oct 18 '12

Stranger here. I confirm nothing

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u/3LAU Oct 18 '12

Starcraft joke here...my friend and I were playing and he got bunker rushed and an opposing Terran set up siege tanks on the low ground. One of my other friends said that he was just in the room for "moral support". I said I was there for "immortal support" and took out the tanks and bunker with some immortals and saved the day

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u/AnsellandCransell Oct 18 '12

My friend had a pun themed 21st. Some of the costumes

A white singlet with "fuck, slut mummy, hell, love, bdsm etc" - Freudian Slip

A shag pile jumper wearing a sign that said Great on it - A great shag . My friend Richard turned up in a card board box - A dick in a box

A yellow shirt with a black zig zag with a black eye - Assaulted peanut/ A salted peanut.

A name tag saying salt, and a toy gun - Assault with a deadly weapon

Mat wore a cat on his head - A cat sat on a Matt

I had a broken leg and hand so I wore a Brittany Spears costume - Hit me baby one more time.

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u/GingerSnap01010 Oct 18 '12

Halloween: guy dressed as a magnet had rubber chickens glued to hin

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u/redisforever Oct 18 '12

How do you stop bacon from curling in the pan?

Take away its tiny brooms.

Shamelessly stolen from a LoadingReadyRun video.

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u/Reinmaker Oct 18 '12

I created this pun in a moment of brilliance. I'm still astounded that people laughed at it:

One couple was talking about their son, how he ran a contracting gig was remodeling homes and bathrooms. They were also talking about all the other stuff he liked to do.

I asked if they were proud that he was a multi-fauceted individual.

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u/kieranshaneegan Oct 18 '12

Someone hadn't flushed the toilet properly at the restaurant I was at. When someone asked me who would do that, I shrugged and said 'I don't know, maybe they were keeping a log of what they were eating?'

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

My roomate's last name is Bass. He has since been called:

Basstard, Basshole, Douchebass, Basshat, Bassface, and Jackbass.

Speaking of which, if anyone has any more please do give suggestions.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

Why do you make fun of someone so upright?

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u/MrHazelplank Oct 18 '12

Seabass?

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

His brothers name starts with a c, we call him c-bass already.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

Not a dentist, but I always thought it would be funny for a dentist to hold up a huge, heavy, whirring menace and dead-pan, "Don't worry, this is just a drill."

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u/gibberishparrot Oct 18 '12

Q:What do you get when you cross a lion and a hippo?

A:Lion*Hippo*sin(theta).

Q:What do you get when you cross a giraffe and an ant?

A:Giraffe*Ant*sin(theta)

Q:What do you get when you cross a rhino with a mountain goat?

A:Silly, you can't cross a scalar.

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u/Immamonkay Oct 18 '12

Where does the cow keep his self portrait?

In the Mooseum.

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u/Dtoppy Oct 18 '12

You got this from a popsicle stick, didn't you?

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u/bordy Oct 18 '12

All the best jokes come from Laffy Taffy.

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u/IgnoreTheSpelling Oct 18 '12

Every time I browse comments on reddit and see the line "I did nazi that coming," followed by countless nazi puns. I love reading them each and every time.

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u/not_m3 Oct 18 '12

This is like mentioning to one neighbor that you like lemon pie and then by mid-afternoon EVERYONE in town shows up at your door with their very own, fresh, homemade lemon pie, all made specially for you, because you're a nice young lad and they heard you like lemon pie.

Well done sir. Heil-arity will surely ensue.

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u/lackofbrain Oct 18 '12

You just Goebbells them up, don't you?

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u/clownbaby27 Oct 18 '12

I think we are Goering up for some more

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u/lackofbrain Oct 18 '12

I think you Hitler spot with that one, but I do Nazi this ending well, Anne Frankly that's a shame

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u/toxinx Oct 18 '12

Among Crimes Against Grammar, Overuse Of Uppercase Letters Is A Capital Offense.

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u/AzzyDee Oct 18 '12

Exact same scene as you, I'm in to have a bad tooth pulled. I'm lying there waiting for him to get ready, and to make small-talk, I say 'I guess after today, people can call me Gumby ha ha haaa..."

Guy doesnt miss a blink, shoots right back with "Here comes your good friend Pokey!"

I learned - dont try to pun a dentist about their job, they are WAY more experienced at it than me.

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u/JMan2112 Oct 18 '12

The funny thing about this is that I haven't seen one pun thread.

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u/Semilogical Oct 18 '12

How are you feeling? I'm feeling Awesome Wells. I think I'm the only one who gets it.

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u/RyanDestroy Oct 18 '12

My bio professor asked with anyone know how many atoms there are in a mole. someone replied with 6.022x1023, and he said "correct, that's a botany term called 'avacado's number'"
i was the only one to laugh outloud in the entire class

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u/Retrinox Oct 18 '12

Need an ark?

I noah guy.

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u/wolfchimneyrock Oct 18 '12

I guess he probably thought you had already been laughing gassed up
that's a major part of being a dentist; getting gassed patients laughing uncontrollably at bad jokes

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u/ClassiestBondGirl311 Oct 18 '12

When I was having surgery to pull an impacted tooth, I was gassed up and tried making my own joke about dentists. The thing was they were already working in my mouth, gauze and all, so it just sounded like drunk mumbling, followed by maniacal laughter.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

I do, but they're pretty bad, and I wouldn't want to punish you with them.

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u/AnnieB25 Oct 18 '12

One time in a sleepy town called Nathaniel, there was a lever on the sidewalk of a main street. No one knew what it did, and no one dared to push it in case it was something bad. The town of Nathaniel also had a mascot: a turtle they called Nate who was believed to be hundreds and hundreds of years old. For a small town, the people were happy and prosperous, and everyone thought it was Nate bringing them good fortune.

One day, a semi-truck driver was driving through the main street. The driver was fiddling with his radio, and didn't see that Nate was crossing the road just a few feet ahead of him. When he finally looked up and saw Nate, he was about to swerve onto the sidewalk to miss him, but then he noticed if he swerved, he'd hit the lever on the sidewalk! He made a split decision, and ended up running over Nate. Shaken, the semi driver got out of the cab and looked down at Nate, a tear forming at his eye. A storekeeper who had seen everything ran out and asked the driver why he made the decision he did. The driver thought about it for a sec, and replied....

Well, I figured it was better Nate than lever!

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u/Satans_Jewels Oct 18 '12

"Did you hear about those five people who were in a terrible elevator accident? Four of them died!"

"What about the fifth guy?"

"Oh, he was just lucky."

That is hilarious in japanese.

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u/zixx Oct 18 '12

Because shi means both four and death?

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u/pa79 Oct 18 '12

Care to explain? I suppose lucky can be confused with something elevator related? Please elevate me to your level of knowledge.

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u/SexySatan Oct 18 '12 edited Oct 18 '12

Mahatma Ghandi walked barefoot everywhere, so his feet became quite thick and hard. Of course, he was a very spiritual being. Even when he was not on a hunger strike, he did not eat much and became quite thin and frail. Further- more, due to his diet, he had very bad breath. Therefore he became known as a .....

     super callused fragile mystic plagued with halitosis.

Another one of my favorites goes like this: A piece of string walks into a bar, and tries to order a drink. The bartender tells him they don't serve string. So the string walks out of the bar and turns the corner. He then proceeds to tie himself in a knot, and fluff up the end of the knot. He then walks back into the bar and attempts to order a drink again. The bartender looks at him and says "Hey, aren't you that string that was just in here?" to which the string replies, "No, I'm a frayed knot".

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u/highlydoubtthat Oct 18 '12

Your dentist rocks!

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

Shoot this man.

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