{"id":4320,"date":"2006-11-03T07:59:01","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T07:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4320"},"modified":"2025-09-29T23:22:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:22:00","slug":"first_place_win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4320","title":{"rendered":"First place winners in the International Pun Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sent to me by Jeanne Marie Gagnon who deserves all the credit and blame for this one. She thought #6 was best; I liked #&#8217;s 5 and 8: <\/p>\n<p>1. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess <br \/>looks at him and says, &quot;I&#8217;m sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per <br \/>passenger.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>2. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. The one turns to the other and says, <br \/>&quot;Dam!&quot; <\/p>\n<p>3. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the <br \/>craft. Unsurprisingly the vessel caught fire and sank, proving once again that <br \/>you can&#8217;t have your kayak and heat it too. <\/p>\n<p>4. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, &quot;I&#8217;ve lost my electron.&quot; The other <br \/>says, &quot;Are you sure?&quot; The first replies, &quot;Yes, I&#8217;m positive.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>5. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocaine during a root canal? <br \/>His goal was: transcend dental medication. <\/p>\n<p>6. A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing in <br \/>the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, <br \/>the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. &quot;But why?&quot; <br \/>they asked, as they moved off. &quot;Because,&quot; he said, &quot;I can&#8217;t stand chess-nuts <br \/>boasting in an open foyer.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>7. A woman has identical twins and gives them up for adoption. One of them <br \/>goes to a family in Egypt and is named &quot;Ahmal.&quot; The other goes to a family in <br \/>Spain; they name him &quot;Juan.&quot; Years later, Juan sends a picture of himself <br \/>to his birth mother. Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband that <br \/>she wishes she also had a picture of Ahmal. Her husband responds, &quot;They&#8217;re <br \/>twins! If you&#8217;ve seen Juan, you&#8217;ve seen Ahmal.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>8. These friars were behind on their belfry payments, so they opened up a <br \/>small florist shop to raise funds. Since everyone liked to buy flowers from the <br \/>men of God, a rival florist across town thought the competition was unfair. <br \/>He asked the good fathers to close down, but they would not. He went back and <br \/>begged the friars to close. They ignored him. So, the rival florist hired <br \/>Hugh MacTaggart, the roughest and most vicious thug in town to &quot;persuade&quot; &gt;them <br \/>to close. Hugh beat up the friars and trashed their store, saying he&#8217;d be <br \/>back if they didn&#8217;t close up shop. Terrified, they did so, thereby proving that <br \/>only Hugh can prevent florist friars. <\/p>\n<p>9. Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which <br \/>produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, <br \/>which made him rather frail. And with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. <br \/>This made him &#8230; A super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis. <\/p>\n<p>10. And finally, there was the guy who sent ten different puns to his <br \/>friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun <br \/>in ten did. <\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sent to me by Jeanne Marie Gagnon who deserves all the credit and blame for this one. She thought #6 was best; I liked #&#8217;s 5 and 8: 1. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, &quot;I&#8217;m sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.&quot; 2. 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