Sunday, November 5, 2023

Caper pun

My partner cooked a chicken dish with a sauce mixed with capers.  However, the capers (which look like small, green berries) did not taste the way they had expected.  They handed me a sieve and asked me to try to fish the capers out of the sauce into a separate bowl while they went to tidy the other room.

However, the sieve didn't work very well.  The sauce was too lumpy, and many of the capers were mixed in with the chicken.  After a few minutes, and only a dozen or so of the capers, I gave up.

When my partner re-entered the room, they asked me,

"Did it work?  Where is the sieve?"

I replied,

"It's in-caper-bowl."

(Rating: 3/5 -- works both ways with heavy contrivance.)

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Egg pun

I was making an egg scramble.  I asked my partner if she wanted to help.

She said, "Omelette you take care of it."

By PFP

(Rating: 3.5/5)

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Funnel pun

 A friend ground up chocolate pieces into small chips in a mixer, to be used for hot chocolate later.  They wanted a way to transfer the ground chocolate from the wide mouth of the mixer into a small bottle.

I suggested they used a hollowed-out salad spoon.  They could pour the fine chocolate in the spoon part, then slide it up the tapering handle and into the bottle.

 The spoon worked, funnely enough.

(Rating: 4/5, works both ways)

Thursday, November 11, 2021

Extremely high quality wall pun: A dramatic retelling

 This excellent pun was conceived and exposited during a brief constitutional on a campus with a good friend.

Them: Heavens!  It appears as though our ingress into the area ahead is precluded by the presence of a chain-link barrier.

Me: Yes, how o-fence-ive.


(Rating: 2/5.  Could be a 1.5.)

Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Dog-boat pun

Q: What does a dog do when its boat lands?
A: It disem-barks.

(Rating: 2.5/5.  S'okay.)

Monday, October 25, 2021

Cape Pun

Q: What do you call the slang name for a cape?

A: A cloak-quialism!

(Rating: 2.5/5.  Colloquialism, cloak-qualism?  Close, but a bit contrived.)

Sunday, October 10, 2021

Rough Seas Pun

 Q:  What do you call a disturbance on the sea?

A: Comm-ocean!

(Rating: 3/5.  This pun graciously supplied by the esteemed contributor Ms. X.)