The one I don’t get is the “every lamp in the in house” one.
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The one I don’t get is the “every lamp in the in house” one.
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He was… de-lighted.
I have a sneaking suspicion that’s meant to be Prometheus, an eagle, and a very sketchy understanding of where the liver is.
Love those Dad jokes upstream.
One of my faves from the Puffin Joke Book circa 1973:
What kind of sound irritates an oyster?
A noisy noise annoys an oyster.
I had a book of pretty good tongue twisters when I was little, and that punchline was one of them.
So was, “A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk. The stump thunk the skunk stunk.”
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
and the party favorite:
I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, upon the slitted sheet I sit.
I do not recall ever seeing/hearing the second one!
The classic:
She sells seashells on the seashore,
The shells she sells are seashells, I’m sure,
For if she sells seashells on the seashore,
Then I’m sure she sells sea shore shells.
And the surprisingly difficult:
Say “toy boat” three times fast.
That version of “she sells seashells” is also new to me.
Yes, “toy boat” is surprisingly difficult! as is “soldier’s shoulders.”
“Twiobot three times fast! Shit!”
“Rubber baby buggy bumpers” is a difficult classic.
I’m not a pheasant plucker
I’m the pheasant plucker’s son
And I’m only plucking pheasants
When the pheasant plucker comes
Mary Mack's mother's making Mary Mack marry me, My mother's making me marry Mary Mack. I'm gonna marry Mary so my Mary will take care O' me, We'll all be feeling merry when I marry Mary Mack.
Not blaming the amphibians, but someone can’t spell for toffee.
(Are they amphibians?)
I think they are.