Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Puns & Wordplay (The Groan Is the Applause)
A pun is two meanings sharing one word, and your groan is the receipt for catching both. This is comedy for people who love the language enough to bend it. All classics of the form.
I used to be addicted to the hokey pokey — but I turned myself around.
Santa's helpers are subordinate Clauses.
A backward poet writes inverse.
I'm on a seafood diet. I see food, and I eat it.
When a clock is hungry, it goes back four seconds.
I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
I tried to catch fog yesterday. Mist.
Broken pencils are pointless — but I keep them anyway. No point in throwing them out.
I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me. (Yes, this one moonlights on the One-Liners page. Puns work two jobs.)
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