{"id":423,"date":"2007-10-30T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2007\/10\/puns-for-all-hallows-eve.html"},"modified":"2007-10-30T11:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T11:50:00","slug":"puns-for-all-hallows-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2007\/10\/puns-for-all-hallows-eve.html","title":{"rendered":"Puns for All Hallow&#8217;s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who don&#8217;t know the history of how holy days became holidays, including All Hallow&#8217;s Eve and All Saints Day, I would encourage you to read about All Saint&#8217;s Day by Googling it. Me personally I will be celebrating with my Red Sox as the saints go marching down Com Ave. in Boston<\/p>\n<p>For now however, I figured some of you could use something to lighten your day&#8230; like some puns that make you groan or laugh, or both.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>1. Two antennas met on a roof, fellin love and got married. The ceremony wasn&#8217;t much, but the reception was excellent.<\/p>\n<p>2. A jumper cable walks into a bar. The bartender says, &#8220;I&#8217;ll serve you, but don&#8217;t start anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>3. Two peanuts walk into a bar, and one was a salted.<\/p>\n<p>4. A dyslexic man walks into a bra.<\/p>\n<p>5. A man walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under his arm and says: &#8220;A beer please, and one for the road.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>6. Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says to the other: &#8220;Does this taste funny to you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>7. &#8220;Doc, I can&#8217;t stop singing &#8216;The Green, Green Grass of Home!'&#8221; &#8220;That sounds like Tom Jones Syndrome.&#8221; &#8220;Is it common?&#8221; Well, &#8220;It&#8217;s Not Unusual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>8. Two cows are standing next to each other in a field. Daisy says to Dolly, &#8220;I was artificiallyinseminated this morning.&#8221; &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe you,&#8221;says Dolly. &#8220;It&#8217;s true, no bull!&#8221; exclaims Daisy ..<\/p>\n<p>9. An invisible man marries an invisible woman. The kids were nothing to look at either.<\/p>\n<p>10. Deja Moo: The feeling that you&#8217;ve heard this bull before.<\/p>\n<p>11. I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day, but I couldn&#8217;t find any.<\/p>\n<p>12. A man woke up in a hospital after a serious accident. He shouted, &#8220;Doctor, doctor, I can&#8217;t feel mylegs!&#8221; The doctor replied, &#8220;I know you can&#8217;t &#8211; I&#8217;ve cut off your arms!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>13 . I went to a seafood disco last week&#8230;and pulled a mussel.<\/p>\n<p>14. What do you call a fish with no eyes? A fsh.<\/p>\n<p>15. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. The one turns to the other and says &#8220;Dam!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>16. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can&#8217;t have your kayak and heat it too.<\/p>\n<p>17. A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. &#8220;But why?&#8221; they asked, as they moved off. &#8220;Because&#8221;, he said, &#8220;I can&#8217;t stand chess-nuts boasting in an open foyer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>18. A woman has twins and gives them up for adoption. One of them goes to a family in western Egypt and is named &#8220;Ahmal.&#8221; The other goes to a family in western Spain; they name him &#8220;Juan.&#8221; Years later, Juan sends apicture of himself to his birth mother. Upon receiving the picture, shetells her husband that she wishes she also had a picture of Ahmal. Her husband responds,&#8221;They&#8217;re twins! If you&#8217;ve seen Juan, you&#8217;ve seen Ahmal!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who don&#8217;t know the history of how holy days became holidays, including All Hallow&#8217;s Eve and All Saints Day, I would encourage you to read about All Saint&#8217;s Day by Googling it. 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