A friend asked, How much weed barrier, is too much weed barrier?
Me, “If it keeps the former occupants of the cemetery land that you bought for real cheap because they only relocated the headstones - and I’m speaking totally hypothetically here - from rising up, then the more the better.”
Edmund Fuller Kent, Connecticut’s gift to the world of letters,
avers that one evening he brought home as food for his dog an Italian dish compounded of flour, cheese, and tomatoes. The thoughtful master tilted it against a door to make it more accessible for the lazy pooch. Then he summoned his wife and told her cheerfully, “There’s no longer any need for you to plan that sightseeing trip to Italy next summer.
Here, before your very eyes, is the leaning Pizza of ‘Towser.” Wow, sir!
When Ed Wynn was playing the role of a waiter years ago in “Manhattan Mary,”
a customer demanded lamb chops au gratin.
Wynn shouted to the kitchen, “Cheese it, the chops!”
It was Walter Winchell who declared that he always praised the first show of a new theatrical season.
“Who am I,” he asked, “‘to stone the first cast?”
Traveling salesman: Aren’t you the pretty youngster who used to shrink from my embrace?
Farmer’s daughter: I don’t recoil now.
An impetuous young husband deliberately threw three pairs of trousers into the furnace one Sunday, then told his wife,
““No longer can you accuse me of being a stick-in-the-mud, unwilling to take a chance. I have just burned my breeches behind me.”
All the above from Bennett Cerf’s Treasury Of Atrocious Puns.
My wife asked me what I would do if she died first.
Apparently, the answer was not supposed to be “finally show up on time”.
A friend of mine told me about a hyper-intelligent duck that lived in the local park.
So I went to the park and soon found it reading a newspaper on a park bench. I asked it if it could explain quantum mechanics in 25 words or less. It thought for a minute before answering “Quack, quack, quack, quack!” and waddling away.
I then realized I was fooling myself all along - I was never going to even begin to understand anything like quantum mechanics.