# Shaggy-dog stories ending in puns **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 20, 2005, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaggy-dog-stories-ending-in-puns/313326 "2005-07-20T18:49:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaggy-dog-stories-ending-in-puns/313326/101 "2012-04-16T15:52:12Z")
“You’re under arrest for transporting young gulls across the State Lion for immoral porpoises.” ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaggy-dog-stories-ending-in-puns/313326/102 "2012-05-02T19:53:21Z")
I can’t wait to tell all my friends - I just did it with Rhino Neil. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaggy-dog-stories-ending-in-puns/313326/103 "2012-05-02T21:40:39Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > I can’t wait to tell all my friends - I just did it with Rhino Neil. That would make a lovely story! ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaggy-dog-stories-ending-in-puns/313326/104 "2012-05-03T04:57:12Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > That would make a lovely story! And he didn’t try to tear off her batik gown–because love means never having to save your sari… ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaggy-dog-stories-ending-in-puns/313326/105 "2012-05-03T15:55:55Z")
He told me to send up some flares, so I made fun of his trousers. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaggy-dog-stories-ending-in-puns/313326/106 "2012-05-03T21:50:05Z")
[spoiler]There once was a farmer named Rama who kept losing his llamas. A friend told him that his ram was an excellent llama herder, so the farmer bought a ram named Huput. Huput was an excellent llama herder and the farmer and Huput spent many a happy day in the mountains herding llamas. Sadly, one day Huput passed away. The farmer was devastated. He thought of replacing Huput, but he could not bear to do it. Instead he made bells for his llamas. He hung the bells on collars around the llamas neck. That we he could hear his llamas even if the wandered away. He still missed Huput though. As a reminder he scuplted the clapper of each bell in the shape of Huput’s head.[/spoiler] And that is the story of Huput the ram in the Rama llama’s ding-dong. ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Norse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/big_norse/32/9954_2.png) [@Big\_Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Norse)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaggy-dog-stories-ending-in-puns/313326/107 "2012-05-04T17:52:50Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > “You’re under arrest for transporting young gulls across the State Lion for immoral porpoises.” When I heard it it was “staid lions for immortal porpoises.” The Norman Tab and apple choir. ---
**Author:** ![alfonzos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@alfonzos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alfonzos)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaggy-dog-stories-ending-in-puns/313326/108 "2012-05-07T04:33:33Z")
(I just read this one this morning!) Yes (Ron) Santo, there is a Virginia clause. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaggy-dog-stories-ending-in-puns/313326/109 "2012-05-07T14:07:12Z")
That’s when I knew … we were dealing with a surreal killer. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaggy-dog-stories-ending-in-puns/313326/110 "2012-05-07T16:51:03Z")
Reminds me of what happened to my sister when she applied to Indiana University (she had heard good things about their library sciences program, and was willing to go out of state). When she submitted her application, her high school counselor told her that she would need to include information about her outside activities, including any jobs she had held during her high school years. Well, the only job she had ever held down was bagging groceries at the local Safeway. The counselor told her that she should polish that up a bit and claim that she had been a cashier, but my sister felt that anything short of strict honesty would come back to bite her in the ass, so she put down the correct information and sent in the packet. Two weeks later, she got the dreaded skinny envelope from Bloomington, IN. Inside was a rejection letter giving the reason why she wasn’t being accepted: _“Baggers can’t be Hoosiers”_ ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaggy-dog-stories-ending-in-puns/313326/111 "2012-05-07T17:00:22Z")
Chiggers can’t be boozers, either. ---
**Author:** ![Fonebone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fonebone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fonebone)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaggy-dog-stories-ending-in-puns/313326/112 "2014-08-26T07:16:06Z")
Panda: eats, shoots, and leaves The Moron Tab and Apple Choir ---
**Author:** ![Fonebone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fonebone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fonebone)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaggy-dog-stories-ending-in-puns/313326/113 "2014-08-26T07:23:31Z")
“Did you know him?” “No, but his face sure rings a bell.” ---
**Author:** ![Fonebone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fonebone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fonebone)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaggy-dog-stories-ending-in-puns/313326/114 "2014-08-26T07:25:38Z")
Two Wongs don’t make a white. Variation of one I saw above: If you’ve seen Juan, you’ve seen Jamal. ---
**Author:** ![Fonebone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fonebone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fonebone)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaggy-dog-stories-ending-in-puns/313326/115 "2014-08-26T07:30:31Z")
One more I just remembered hearing forever ago! “Honest tea is the best, Polly C.” ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaggy-dog-stories-ending-in-puns/313326/116 "2014-08-26T07:35:20Z")
Jesus Christ! Why am I still getting these things years after posting??? ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaggy-dog-stories-ending-in-puns/313326/117 "2014-08-26T07:37:37Z")
And it’s NOT “Chiggers” Godammit! It’s “Chegros”. Jesus, haven’t I taught y’all _anything_ at all??? ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaggy-dog-stories-ending-in-puns/313326/118 "2014-08-26T07:48:57Z")
Whoa! Did someone type Quasi’s name three times while looking in a mirror? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Shine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr_shine/32/464_2.png) [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaggy-dog-stories-ending-in-puns/313326/119 "2014-08-26T07:54:38Z")
“Of course not, it’s a cereal!” ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaggy-dog-stories-ending-in-puns/313326/120 "2014-08-26T07:55:03Z")
People who live in grass houses shouldn’t stow thrones. The squaw on the hippopotamus is equal to the sum of the squaws on the other two hides. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaggy-dog-stories-ending-in-puns/313326.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shaggy-dog-stories-ending-in-puns/313326.md?page=7)