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Do you want puns of all types, or specifically the occuplational riddles of the type you sent as an example.
Q: What did the lawyer name his daughter?
A: Sue
I think that Martha tortured Grant -- much to our delight -- with several of these in one broadcast / podcast, but I don't recall which one.
LeDon said
If you know of any more of these would you please post yours? I want some of these to use to entertain people at our support group’s for the blind fourth of July party.
Interesting. How common is is for holidays to develop vision problems?
I realize that's not actually a pun, but it is an incredibly low form of humor.
EmmettRedd said
You have probably heard of sisters, Ima Hogg and Ura Hogg. Since Ura is the prettier one, Ivan A. Foxx decided to date her. However, Ima did catch her man: I. M. Sansjuan.
You may have *heard* of the sisters, but you heard wrong. Ima Hogg, daughter of Texas governor "Big Jim" Hogg, had no sisters, only younger brohers. She was a petite blue-eyed strawberry blonde, elegant and refined, a concert pianist, art collector and quite the philanthropist.
deaconB said
EmmettRedd said
You have probably heard of sisters, Ima Hogg and Ura Hogg. Since Ura is the prettier one, Ivan A. Foxx decided to date her. However, Ima did catch her man: I. M. Sansjuan.You may have *heard* of the sisters, but you heard wrong. Ima Hogg, daughter of Texas governor "Big Jim" Hogg, had no sisters, only younger brohers. She was a petite blue-eyed strawberry blonde, elegant and refined, a concert pianist, art collector and quite the philanthropist.
Do we really want the facts to get in the way of a (good?) story?
EmmettRedd said
Do we really want the facts to get in the way of a (good?) story?
What astounds me is not that there was a Governor Hogg of Texas (obviously inspiring the one from Hazard County, Kentucky), but that he would have a daughter named Ima, but that dissatisfied people would find it necessary to conflate hat story by adding a sister, Ura. The KansasCity Star even invented a third sister, Hoosa.
Mark Twain said once that on a certain newspaper, he reported every fire in town, and on a slow news week, would start a few. It seems to me that Ameroica's Greatest Writer would only disapprove of the fact that he died too early to start this story.
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