Punsday, or Mick Jagger's Frog

[Samuari]

With appologies to Spider Robinson who celebrated Punsday in Calahan's Place, I think it would be fun to see Lit's favorite puns. To be rewarded with slightly rotten fruit and vegtables thrown from a safe distance. My favorite is an old one about Mick Jagger's frog:

A frog hopped into a bank, through the lobby, and up into the middle of the head teller's cage. "Good morning, I'd like to apply for a loan," he said.

The teller looked at him and said, "You need to go see Miss Kitty Black, our loan officer. That's her right over there." He indicated a pretty blonde, at a desk toward the back of the room.

"Thankyou, very much." The frog said and hopped over to Kitty Black's desk. "Are you the loan officer?" he asked.

"Yes I am." she responded.

"Well, I'd like to apply for a loan." the frog said.

"Do you you have any colateral?"

"Just this," and the frog pulled out a tiny chyrstal piano.

"I need to talk to the bank president about this", and Kitty Black left to go to a back office.

"Sir, there's a frog sitting in the middle of desk, and he wants a loan."

"Does he have any colateral?"

"Just a tiny chrystall piano."

"Well, that's a nick-nack, Kitty Black, give the frog a loan, his old man's a Rolling Stone."

[Edited by Samuari on 08-30-2000 at 07:36 AM]

 

[sallygirl]

Oh, you're so punny!
I think the best puns aren't part of jokes like that, but ones you make up on the spur of the moment to fit a situation. But damn if I can think of any examples right now. I'll get back to you.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

The frog punchline is not a pun (just to be a pain in the ass about the whole thing). Replacing words that sound the same as the original words but are still literally correct is funny, but a pun is using a literally incorrect but simliar sounding word which comments upon the intended thought in a surprising, and illuminating way.

"Did you hear that cows enjoy being milked?"

"That's udderly ridiculous."

That's a pun. A bad one, and not half as funny as the Mick Jagger joke, but it is a pun.

Tomorrow I'll annoy you all with the derivation of the "f" sound for "ph".

 

[Samuari]

The frog punchline is not a pun (just to be a pain in the ass about the whole thing). Replacing words that sound the same as the original words but are still literally correct is funny, but a pun is using a literally incorrect but simliar sounding word which comments upon the intended thought in a surprising, and illuminating way.

DCL, I looked it up in my Funk & Wagnell's and got this :

"Pun: A play on words, somrtimes on different sences of the same word and sometimes on the similar sence or sound of diferent words."