{"id":396,"date":"2007-12-07T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2007\/12\/tis-the-season-to-be-jolly-with-humor-for-pun-and-profit.html"},"modified":"2007-12-07T15:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T15:39:00","slug":"tis-the-season-to-be-jolly-with-humor-for-pun-and-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2007\/12\/tis-the-season-to-be-jolly-with-humor-for-pun-and-profit.html","title":{"rendered":"Tis the Season to be Jolly, with Humor for Pun and Profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* Police were called to a daycare where a three-year-old was resisting a<\/p>\n<p>rest.<\/p>\n<p>* Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He&#8217;s all<\/p>\n<p>right now.<\/p>\n<p>* The roundest knight at King Arthur&#8217;s round table was Sir Cumference.<\/p>\n<p>* To write with a broken pencil is pointless.<\/p>\n<p>* When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate.<\/p>\n<p>* The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at<\/p>\n<p>large.<\/p>\n<p>* A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.<\/p>\n<p>* Thieves who steal corn from a garden could be charged with stalking.<\/p>\n<p>* We&#8217;ll never run out of math teachers because they always multiply.<\/p>\n<p>* When the smog lifts in Los Angeles , U C L A.<\/p>\n<p>* The math professor went crazy with the blackboard. He did a number on<br \/>it.<\/p>\n<p>* The professor discovered that her theory of earthquakes was on shaky<br \/>ground.<\/p>\n<p>* The dead batteries were given out free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>* I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.<\/p>\n<p>* If you take a laptop computer for a run you could jog your memory.<\/p>\n<p>* A dentist and a manicurist fought tooth and nail.<\/p>\n<p>* A bicycle can&#8217;t stand alone; it is two tired.<\/p>\n<p>* Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.<\/p>\n<p>* A backward poet writes inverse.<\/p>\n<p>* In a democracy it&#8217;s your vote that counts; in feudalism, it&#8217;s your<br \/>Count that votes.<\/p>\n<p>* A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.<\/p>\n<p>* If you don&#8217;t pay your exorcist you can get repossessed.<\/p>\n<p>* With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.<\/p>\n<p>* Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I&#8217;ll show you A -flat<br \/>miner.<\/p>\n<p>* When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.<\/p>\n<p>* The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.<\/p>\n<p>* A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France , resulted in Linoleum<br \/>Blownapart.<\/p>\n<p>* You are stuck with your debt if you can&#8217;t budge it.<\/p>\n<p>* He broke into song because he couldn&#8217;t find the key.<\/p>\n<p>* A calendar&#8217;s days are numbered.<\/p>\n<p>* A lot of money is tainted: &#8216;Taint yours, and &#8216;taint mine.<\/p>\n<p>* A boiled egg is hard to beat.<\/p>\n<p>* He had a photographic memory which was never developed.<\/p>\n<p>* A plateau is a high form of flattery.<\/p>\n<p>* Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.<\/p>\n<p>* When you&#8217;ve seen one shopping center you&#8217;ve seen a mall.<\/p>\n<p>* When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she&#8217;d dye.<\/p>\n<p>* Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.<\/p>\n<p>* Santa&#8217;s helpers are subordinate clauses.<\/p>\n<p>* Acupuncture: a jab well done<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Police were called to a daycare where a three-year-old was resisting a rest. * Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? 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