March 30, 2007
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Free Cheese?
JuliePersons is offering free cheese to her voters. I have no such incentive. Plus, she has 64 comments on her latest post (more now, I’m sure). Sigh. And, she’s beating me again. I feel like Gideon against the Amalekites. “A sword for Xanga and for Teacherperson!” Okay, WAAAAY to melodramatic. (Does anyone have a trumpet or a pitcher they’d like to break on my behalf?) Actually, she has a great site and appears to be quite entertaining. But, if you want to keep voting for yours truly, HERE is the link again. Just go to the left-hand side. While there, The Theologian has some interesting things to think about.
On Tuesday, TGD and I had a wonderful time going out to dinner and to see the Nittany Valley Symphony. (Go, bkroeker! He should be called OboeDad!) While there, as the music, a tribute to Shakespeare, washed over me, I thought about puns and how to explain them to my children, a la Grammar of Poetry. “Take a word with two meanings and use it both ways” was the best explanation I could think of at the time. I thought of the pun my friend Rachel made in high school about our band director: Did you hear Mr. B. was struck by lightning? He was such a good conductor.
Now, here’s the lame one I thought up Tuesday night. Why can’t you play a baby grand loudly? Because it is piano! (That is only funny if you know that “piano” is the musical term for soft, and even then, it’s not so funny, although I hope Jimmy and his lil sis will find it at least a bit amusing.)
Hit me with your best pun! (Lame puns especially welcome!)
Comments (28)
Piano… haha. funny.
Thanks for your sweet comments… even when my posts are few and far between!
Have a great day!
Well, I really like cheese, and we’re out, so I hopped over there to check her out.
She has some great pictures, but I still voted for you. I like your writing style, and besides I’m loyal. 
Seriously, thank you for praying for us last night. I didn’t sleep well, but it was perfectly uneventful after that.
My corny puns are always a hit around our house. I have the bruises to prove it.
My kids are pretty sheltered too but I am shocked at what they know!
Puns? I’m not very good at those. Sorry. I’ll go vote now.
Cheese? Cheese rots! I vote for you. You don’t need to bribe your xanga friends. Just post lovely comments on their blogs and you will win them over. He-hee.
…but, I will say, I do like her pictures.
and I like your new springy look.
I love the one about “piano”, and, seeing as I was a music major (for one glorious year!), I DID get that one! (WHEW!!! Guess that year wasn’t for naught!!)
Puns….. puns….. puns….. hmmm….. still thinking.
All I can think of are riddles!
Why didn’t the the baker’s garden grow?……. She forgot to add the yeast.
Why didn’t the electrician’s garden grow?….. He didn’t plant any bulbs.
Why was the woodworker’s berry bush bare?……. Someone ate all the rasp-berries. (get it? a “rasp” is a file used by a woodworker!)
&, finally….
Why couldn’t the gardener give his wife a kiss???………. He didn’t have tulips!!!! (two lips!)
Har-dee har har!! O.k., so they’re a little corny…… guess I like corn! Can you tell I’m aching to get out into my garden?? That’s a bit of a pun, in and of itself, seeing how sore I will be when I’m done at the end of the day!
I voted for you today…. will do so on the other computer, too!
RYC: To start a good genre, I would highly recommend “Wizard’s First Rule” by Terry Goodkind. Thanks for your comment.. You sure do have very interesting blogs.. I hope to get to know you more.. You are welcome to subscribe me as well..
I’ve voted every day now! Too bad this isn’t happening during a year you taught AP Lang . . . maybe your students could have gotten bonus points! (Forget the DQs for this week, class – vote for your teacher and save yourself half an hour of writing time!)
i’ll vote for you, miss!
because, i hate cheese.
and i love the underdog.
I voted. Twice. Now if I can just get my husband to power up his work laptop, I’ll go vote again. After my second vote, you were only 7 votes behind. I’m off the women’s retreat for my church. I’ll see if anybody has a laptop w/ them!!
I voted again today. You are only behind by 6 votes right now. I’m sure that gap will be filled soon!!
I can think up a lot of oxymorons….but my pun producer is not working at the moment.
I can’t believe your married to the “SAXON MAN”. WOW!!! Can we be bestest friends? (lol) I had to go to Algebra tutoring last night in order to be able to teach Gabe how to simplify fractions with an x in both the numerator and denominator. THEN…..I turned the page and saw that we were going into “cubing square roots”….it seems fairly logical to me, but when I saw the double stacked fractions that had to be cubed, I wet my pants. (banging head on desk)
Oh well………….I’m off to vote for you again……..not only because your a worthy person to vote for- but mainly because, one day I may have to weasle an algebra question/answer session out of you and your husband!!! (LOL)
-Cass
You’re only behind by five votes, now. I’ve voted at least thrice, and I know Memof6 and Arohk have voted a few times, too.
ryc:…. well this is my only ex so far…haha…. so yeah…. it was weird….
I don’t know if this is the sort of thing for which you were looking when you asked for puns, but I found this one on the Internet:
There were three Medieval kingdoms on the shores of a lake. There was an
island in the middle of the lake, which the kingdoms had been fighting
over for years. Finally, the three kings decided that they would send
their knights out to do battle, and the winner would take the island.
The night before the battle, the knights and their squires pitched camp
and readied themselves for the fight. The first kingdom had 12 knights,
and each knight had 5 squires, all of whom were busily polishing armor,
brushing horses, and cooking food. The second kingdom had 20 knights,
and each knight had 10 squires. Everyone at that camp was also busy
preparing for battle. At the camp of the third kingdom, there was only
one knight, with his squire. This squire took a large pot and hung it
from a looped rope in a tall tree. He busied himself preparing the meal,
while the knight polished his own armor.
When the hour of the battle came, the three kingdoms sent their squires
out to fight (this was too trivial a matter for the knights to join in).
The battle raged, and when the dust cleared, the only person left was
the lone squire from the third kingdom, having defeated the squires from
the other two kingdoms.
Thus proving that the squire of the high pot and noose is equal to the
sum of the squires of the other two sides.
Thanks for your comment about Salty, I appreciated it a lot. She was a sweetie!
I just voted on TheTheologiansCafe site for that contest…and you were #2, down by only one percentage point. Good luck!
I made you within one point!! As of 9:56 pm…
Did you know your competition (Juliepersons) has her own fan club blog ring? it has like 46 members!!! check it out … its the “I love juliepersons” blog ring.
Since you like puns, you might enjoy reading this thread on GeekCulture, starting around about page 3, I think it is: http://www.geekculture.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=14;t=000092;p=3
(some parts might be slightly NSFW, or inappropriate for the younger crowd, but with over 1000 posts of puns, it’s a punner’s heaven)
Well, you’re down by two votes now. This is a close race!
The good dr’s pun reminded me of this one:
There were three Indian squaws. One slept on a deer skin, one slept on an elk skin, and the third slept on a hippopotamus skin. All three became pregnant, and the first two each had a baby boy. The one who slept on the hippopotamus skin had twin boys. This goes to prove that the squaw of the hippopotamus is equal to the sons of the squaws of the other two hides.
If you want more, go to http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=bafocus&nextdate=3%2f23%2f2007+8%3a19%3a52.653 He has a bunchof them up.
As of this morning, thanks to my vote (proud look here) you are one vote ahead! 208 to 207!!
Hey, you’re winning now! And without the cheese benefit, too. Amazing.
At one point in time several years ago some friends and I went crazy with puns to the point of insanity. Finally we decided we’d have to pun-ish each other if we punned again.
I just voted and you’re ahead 233 to 220 !!!
Here’s my tuppence:
1. Show me where Stalin is buried, and I’ll show you a communist plot.
2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to only be an optical Aleutian.
Ok I know I already gave you a couple of puns but I just couldn’t resist…
Did you hear about the frog who looked into his geneology? He discovered he was a tad Polish.
And don’t forget:
Streets in Afghanistan are paved with Kabulstones.