# I think eggs are ova rated **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [November 25, 2017, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-eggs-are-ova-rated/802703 "2017-11-25T21:05:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-eggs-are-ova-rated/802703/61 "2017-11-28T15:51:49Z")
“I’ll take stuffed eggs for $1000”, Tom said devilishly. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-eggs-are-ova-rated/802703/62 "2017-11-28T21:40:42Z")
You folks must be poaching these puns from somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-eggs-are-ova-rated/802703/63 "2017-11-28T21:41:59Z")
The waiter asked me if I’d like to try a baked egg, and I said, “Shirr.” ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-eggs-are-ova-rated/802703/64 "2017-11-28T21:45:03Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > You folks must be poaching these puns from somewhere. I’m sorry; did you mean, “You yolks”? More like at this point, they’ve just been whipped and beaten for so long, it’s all for nog. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-eggs-are-ova-rated/802703/65 "2017-11-29T09:05:47Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > I’m sorry; did you mean, “You yolks”? More like at this point, they’ve just been whipped and beaten for so long, it’s all for nog. Were they taken apart with an eggs-acto knife? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-eggs-are-ova-rated/802703/66 "2017-11-29T12:39:09Z")
Last one to post’s a rotten egg! ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-eggs-are-ova-rated/802703/67 "2017-11-29T15:02:05Z")
I’ll just sit here amid the rotten egg gas smell and sulfur in silence. ---
**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-eggs-are-ova-rated/802703/68 "2017-12-11T05:22:49Z")
Why did the egg cross the road? ---
**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-eggs-are-ova-rated/802703/69 "2017-12-11T05:24:11Z")
To get laid. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-eggs-are-ova-rated/802703/70 "2017-12-11T05:56:00Z")
Someone said I should try a thousand-year-old-egg sometime, but when I’m hungry, I’m hungry _now_. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-eggs-are-ova-rated/802703/71 "2017-12-11T06:09:02Z")
Fun thread to eggsplore here. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-eggs-are-ova-rated/802703/72 "2017-12-11T08:12:29Z")
Sadly this thread seems to be dying. It’s just a shell of its former self. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-eggs-are-ova-rated/802703/73 "2017-12-11T12:25:57Z")
Yeah, well, bad puns are a dime a dozen. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-eggs-are-ova-rated/802703/74 "2017-12-14T22:41:21Z")
It’s becoming over-hard to ensure the pun you want to crack hasn’t been poached by someone else. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-eggs-are-ova-rated/802703/75 "2017-12-15T04:18:26Z")
It does my heart good to see that this Humpty Dumpty of a thread has been put back together again. Risen from the dead like an Easter miracle. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-eggs-are-ova-rated/802703/76 "2017-12-15T05:38:54Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Were they taken apart with an eggs-acto knife? Just what egg-zackly are you in-frying? ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-eggs-are-ova-rated/802703/77 "2018-01-31T03:15:36Z")
Cracking this thread open again to mention my favorite French novel, Madame Ovary ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-eggs-are-ova-rated/802703/78 "2018-01-31T04:56:51Z")
My favorite song is Somewhere Ova the Rainbow. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-eggs-are-ova-rated/802703/79 "2018-01-31T06:24:29Z")
Wait, this isn’t the bananas thread? Oh great, now I’m getting my game threads all scrambled. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-eggs-are-ova-rated/802703/80 "2018-01-31T07:03:03Z")
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