the rabbit in a hat is a trick and a hatrick is something too. Did I do wrong? Oops, sorry.
Nothing to be sorry for, for sure. So, there was nothing in what you wrote to put the “rabbit out of a hat” idea into my head – I was kinda looking for a pun on the phrase “hat trick,” really – and a “hat trick” is three goals in a (ice hockey) game, again not really connected to anything. The way to present a pun that gets more groans and fewer question marks is to come up with a way to state one idea (like “that will bowl you over” in Intergalactic Gladiator’s contribution) that uses a punning word or phrase that reveals that you had something else in mind, like a bowler hat. Spoons and Siam Sam are (IMHO) grand masters at this.
Hey, my hat’s in the ring too!
Did you hear about the girl who wore a really cool hat while wandering the world? You know, Fedora the Explorer?
Was she a bowler, as well?
More likely a boater.
I’d rather have a 10 gallon hat in a boat in case of leaks.
I’d rather have a 10 gallon hat full of leeks than a boat with a case of the leaks.
Did you hear about the wannabe-shoplifter who mistook a grocery store for a bathroom? Yep, he took a leek in it.
I steal don’t get it.
He could have made the fruit and vegetable stands filchy dirty.
I understand that cleaners getting a good celery could take care of that.
I couldn’t come up with another fruit-and-vegetable pun, but I figured eventually something would turnip.
Then lettuce try something else.
I don’t carrot one little bit.
Show a little enthusiasm, Beck. Somebody, pepper up!
Just don’t go bananas.
Yeah, don’t go plantain ideas in her head.
[BTW, there was a real threat there of my responding to panache45 by re-posting the OP just to see if we could re-start the whole thread over again…]
I’ll do it:
I like bananas a bunch…
That has no a-peel.