A little humor, just fir fun
A little humor, just fir fun
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Hello friends,
Have you noticed anything unusual?
It's okay if you didn’t, but we can always use a bit of humor and a lot more pun. With so much seriousness in the world, and sometimes our lives, laughter can soothe the stress and give us a fresh perspective. [Hint: title and caption]
I'm not very good at telling jokes. As the word nerd in our family, I discovered the perfect avenue to increase my humor quotient. Puns.
A pun is a joke using a play on words, usually homophones or words that sound the same but have different meanings.
You might consider puns a childish form of humor and wordplay or the painful content for “Dad” jokes. Shakespeare enlightened me about puns while I was still in high school. My favorites come from Disney animated films.
In Finding Nemo, Marlin tries to break the ice among the other sea parents with this joke. "There was a mollusk and a sea cucumber. The sea cucumber walks over to the mollusk and says, "With fronds like these, who needs anemones?"
Go ahead, groan if you must.
For this holiday season, I found over 150 Christmas puns. I will spear you by not throwing all of them your way. Here are just a few to lighten your load.
The Christmas alphabet has noel.
Are you oakey? Yes, I'm pine.
Let's take an elfy!
Love at frost sight.
and one more, just for pun...
I love it when candy canes are in mint condition.
Now it’s your turn. Have a punny time, and feel free to share your creations in the comments. We celebrate Christmas, but I’m certain that puns could find their way into other traditions.
Keep your spirits lifted and your laughter heavy this holiday season, today, and all through the year.
We can’t always be near the ones we love, so I'll reflect on Christmases past because food and family make the best memories.
We all have funny Christmas stories. After unwrapping a new Apple TV, someone I know wondered who would want such a small TV. Here are more funny holiday stories.
My first Christmas record was a 78 RPM of Gene Autry's Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer with If It Doesn't Snow on Christmas on Side B. A real golden oldie!
"It's not how much we give but how much love we put in the giving."
—Mother Theresa
"Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see."
—The Polar Express
Find a little wonder this week and smile. It’s good for you.
With gratitude,
Kathryn
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These made me smile - ok, a couple of them made me groan. Like a good Dad joke, a Christmas pun has a built in audience around the family dinner table.
Thanks
Kathryn, elfish, you’re not. You sleigh-ed me, lady! Lit me up like a Christmas tree. Treemendous, that’s what you are. This is a treemendous mooseletter too, my friend.
Here goes a round of Santa-plause — loud, foot stomping and knee slapping — makes me wanna go Dachshund through the snow, indeedy.
Bah-Hum-Pug, we have no snow here yet. *sigh* Now you got me feeling extra Santa-mental. This is gonna be an Un-Fir-gettable Merry Christmoose. Oh, deer, how rude-olph of you, my fiend. 👏
(I think you can tell I landed in punland. I had pun too. Thanks, gangsta wrappa, you rock).
Merry holidays. Thanks for the fun. Yay! XoXo