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This is a pun on the phrase 'rave reviews' which is a report in which someone gives an excellent opinion of the quality of a book, performance, product, etc, but it's also being because 'rave' is a genre of music that is usually played at dance clubs

The dance club opened to rave reviews .

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The joke is a pun. To 'stop with a jerk' means to abruptly stop in a way that makes the vehicle shake forward and back. A mean person can also be called a 'jerk'.

The car stopped with a jerk , then the jerk got out .

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Unstrung means to remove a string. A violin is an instrument that is comprised of strings. To be made "unstrung" means to be made weak or disordered. The joke is playing on the word "unstrung" and its different meanings. It's clever that the word "unstrung" was used on a violinist since that is something you can do to a violin.

OLD VIOLINISTS never die , they just become unstrung .

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A pitcher in baseball is a player that throws the baseball from the mound towards the catcher. In business, if someone has a good pitch, it means that they have a good argument for the selling of something. The joke is centered around the word pitch since it relates to baseball and it relates to a sell.

A baseball player can sell himself to a new team if he has a good pitch .

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The joke is a pun on the word 'heated'. For something to be a 'heated' topic means that the topic is discussed often. Global warming is the effect of the Earth's atmosphere becoming hotter.

I ' m going to be discussing global warming next week , it ' s quite a heated topic .

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The joke is a pun. A dentist is a doctor who specializes in teeth. Dentists would perform a filling on a tooth that had a cavity, or a decayed part of the tooth. A 'cavity search' is a search usually performed by police or security to check any place on a person that may be hiding restricted items.

The dentist ' s alibi was full of holes , so the police performed a cavity search .

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This is a play on words. The word "classified" refers to confidential information relating to politics but the "classified" ads are a form of advertising common in newspapers. So here, what's classified doesn't go in the Politics section of a newspaper because it goes in the Classifed Ads section.

The newspaper doesn ' t put in Politics what is Classified .

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A sheet is a piece of cloth that people sleep underneath. A sheet is often found on a bed. People physically wrap themselves in a sheet if they are cold. When someone is "wrapped up in themselves", it means that they think only of themselves and quite often. When someone "hogs the sheets" it means that they are taking the sheets all for themselves. This joke is centered on the word "wrapped' and its different meanings.

He who hogs the sheets is usually very wrapped up in himself .

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This is a play on words. The word "underworld" means a supernatural world of the dead but an "underworld" is also the world of criminals or organized crime.

OLD GANGSTERS never die , they just go to the underworld . .

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To milk something means to thoroughly use something to one's advantage. Cows produce milk. The verb milk is the action taken to retrieve milk from a cow. The joke is centered around the word milk and its different meanings.

The farmer decided to get a cow , and milk the idea for all it was worth .

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This is a pun on 'cinch' which in this context initially means an extremely easy task, but it's also being used because 'cinch' can also mean fix (a saddle) securely by means of a girth; girth up (a horse).

Anyone should know how to put a saddle on a horse so it won ' t slip and cause an injury . It ' s a cinch .

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This pun is about proposing to someone to marry them. Engaging has two meanings here - engaging as in intriquing or able to keep attention, and engaging as in getting engaged to someone to be married.

When he proposed to her , she found it very engaging .

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This is a play on words. The phrase "turn out" refers to how the jackets will look but "turn out" also refers to the jacket literally being turned inside out since it's reversible.

Did you hear about these new reversible jackets ? I ' m excited to see how they turn out .

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A possessive noun is a noun that shows ownership of an item. Possessive nouns are commonly taught in English grammar classes. Sometimes a romantic relationship will fail because someone was being too possessive. The words noun and verb are getting personified here.

A noun and a verb were dating but they broke up because the noun was too possessive .

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gardeners deals with plants and plants live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way.

Old gardeners never die they just vegetate .

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The joke is a pun on the word 'bypass'. 'Bypass' can mean a procedure in heart surgery to route blood past a clot that is causing heart problems. Bypass means to route around or pass by something, and could be used in a way to say that the doctor would neglect or pass by a good opportunity.

Heart surgeons never bypass a good opportunity .

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This is a pun on the phrase "see it through" which means to support a person for the duration of a difficult time, in this case it's the invention of glass. It also works because you can literally see through glass

The inventor of glass decided to see it through .

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Deodorant is a substance applied to the body to prevent sweat or mask the smell of it. No sweat is an expression that means easy, which applying deodorant typically is.

Using deodorant is no sweat .

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The joke is a pun. A fathom is a unit of length equal to six feet (approximately 1.8 m), chiefly used in reference to the depth of water. One could also use the word 'fathom' to mean 'understand', so the pirate could not understand why they ran aground, but there may not have been enough fathoms for the ship to sail through.

When the pirate captain ' s ship ran aground he couldn ' t fathom why .

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This is a play on words. The phrase "run down" means very tired from exertion but "run down" also refers to how you're likely to get run over by a train if you walk on the tracks.

If you walk along a railroad track you may soon feel run down .

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This is a play on words. The word "driving ambition" means a great desire to achieve something but "driving" also references how a "drive" is a long distance shot used in golf.

He wanted desperately to be a good golfer - you could say he had a driving ambition .

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The joke is a pun. 'Still' in this case has two meanings. Still means to continue or remain doing something. A still in terms of alcohol bootlegging like in the prohibition days is a distilling apparatus for making alcohol. Saying "I loved her still" when she's the daughter of a bootlegger could mean that he loved the still she used, not that he continues to love her.

She was only a Bootleggers daughter , but I loved her still .

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When something "took off" it means that it got really successful. When a plane "took off" it means that the plane successfully lifted off the ground and is flying in the air. This joke is playing on the term "took off".

His model airplane hobby really took off .

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This is a pun on the phrase "keep off the grass" , which works in this context because 'grass' is another term for marijuana which is something people would want you to keep off of if you're at a re-hab center

There was a sign on the lawn at a drug re - hab center that said ' Keep off the Grass ' .

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This is a pun on 'chickened out' which in this context means man got too scared to invest and backed out, but it's also being used because chickens are a type of poultry

He was almost persuaded to invest in a poultry farm , but chickened out at the last minute .

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Lame pun. A bad patch is a rough phase someone goes through, and is a pun on crop patches that rabbits eat.

Why was the rabbit depressed ? He was just going through a bad patch !

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The boy improved his guitar skills, and 'pick up' is a pun on the picks that guitarrists use to play.

The boy ' s guitar teacher helped him pick up his skills .

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A submarine is a warcraft that can operate underwater and can be found in oceans. Oceans are never still and are constantly creating waves. The phrase "wave of the future" refers to a product or way of thinking that will become popular in the future. This joke is playing on the word "wave".

Could modern submarines be the wave of the future ?

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The word differentiate can mean to recognize what makes someone or something different. As peole age, sometimes their vision gets worse, or their mental faculties decline which hinder them from being able to properly differentiate things. In mathematics, to differentiate is to transform a function into its derivative. The joke is centered around the word "differentiate" and ties in nicely with the old math professor described.

Old math profs never die , they just can ' t differentiate .

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To be "put on hold" means to be forced to wait. A wrestling hold is a type of move used to immobilize another person into submission. The joke is playing on the word "hold" and its different meanings.

Wrestlers don ' t like to be put on hold .

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The joke is a pun on the phrase 'straight answer'. A straight answer means an honest answer with no spin or different take on it to change the meaning. A curve ball is a ball that curves through the air as it is thrown.

A baseball pitcher asked if he had a good curve ball , but wanted a straight answer .

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To upholster means to cover the walls or furniture. To recover means to return to a normal state of health, mind, or strength. To recover means to cover again. Upholsterers never die, they just recover, or return to a normal state of health, or cover again.

OLD UPHOLSTERERS never die , they just recover . .

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This is a pun on "scale". Building something "to scale" is when you build a larger structure based on a model or plan using the same proportions. Scale means to climb over something like a wall. Prison walls are made to not be climbed over so as to keep the prisoners inside.

Prison walls are never built to scale .

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The joke is a pun I think? The phrase 'thirst for knowledge' is often said to mean 'a desire to learn'. Thirst also means being in need of water, and this person is studying water purification.

He studied water purification and had a great thirst for knowledge .

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This joke would be funnier if we knew what thought Pavlov was drooling about. It's a play on the drooling dogs that Pavlov, a behavioral scientist, was famous for conditioning to associate a ringing bell with incoming food.

Pavlov was drooling at the thought .

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This is a pun on 'battering' which means the action of striking repeatedly with hard blows, in this case striking your stomatch with fried food. It's also being used because when you fry fish you need to coat it in a batter

I once knew a guy who had fish and chips every day for a year . His stomach took a battering .

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The joke is a pun. Coffee beans are ground or 'grinded' to be made into coffee. The phrase 'daily grind' refers to a daily work routine.

Is coffee your daily grind ?

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This is a play on words. The terms "billy" and "nanny" refer to male or female goats and "kidded" plays on the fact that baby goats are called kids. The implication seems to be that Tom and his parents are goats.

' ' My parents are called Billy and Nanny , ' ' Tom kidded .

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This is a play on words. The word "nursing" is the profession of providing care for the sick and infirm but "nursing" also refers to a mother breastfeeding milk to a baby.

I majored in nursing but I had to drop it because I ran out of milk .

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To "go downhill" can be understood in the literal sense of someone moving downhill. It can also be understood as something decreasing in quality. There is a type of skiing called downhill skiing. The joke is saying that skiiers do not die, they just decrease in quality, or "go downhill".

OLD SKIERS never die , but they go downhill fast .

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This is a pun o nthe phrase 'didn't pan out' which means something didn't turn out the expected way, but it's also being used because sometiems you bake pizzas in a pan

Tony attempted to join his thin crust pizza company with Zimo ' s Thick Crust Pizza , but somehow it didn ' t pan out .

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To have "no reservations" about something means to have no doubt that something is good or right. To put in a reservation at a restaurant means to reserve seats at a restaurant. To say someone has no reservations can mean that the person did not save any seats. But, it can also mean that the person is saying that they have no doubts that this restaurant is a good restaurant. This joke is playing on the different meanings of the word reservation.

He recommended the restaurant to me , and said he had no reservations .

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This is a pun on "process of elimination". Process of elimination is when you find the answer through eliminating answers that you know aren't true in order to find the true answer. Process of elimination can also be interpreted as a colon getting rid of human waste.

Overheard in med school - ' I learned about the colon through the process of elimination . '

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Toilets used to be stowed under beds (ew), and 'potty' is a pun on 'pouty', or in a bad mood.

My father slept under the bed , I think he was a little potty .

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Reception has different meanings. Reception can mean ceremony. So, in this case, reception means wedding ceremony. Reception can refer to the receiving of broadcast signals. A television needs to receive broadcast signals in order to work. The joke is centered on the word "reception" and its different meanings.

When the TV repairman got married the reception was excellent .

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See what evolved is a colloquialism for waiting for a situation to play out. Charles Darwin was a scientist known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.

Darwin said he ' d have to see what evolved .

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Inventors make their own products (devices), while devices also means plan

Inventors have their own devices .

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This is a play on words. A "ring" is jewelry worn on the finger and often part of a marriage proposal but a "ring" is also the arena boxing matches take place in.

A boxer who wants to get married has the ring to worry about .

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This is a pun on 'draw attention' which means to rouse someone to notice something, to cause someone to focus on something, but it's also being used because you can also literally draw with pencils

His plan to manufacture pencils just didn ' t draw attention .

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A carpenter is a worker who builds or repairs wooden structures. Dinette sets (which have a table as a part of them) are often made of wood. The meaning of the expression "We can table this" means to postpone a discussion.

Harry and Clem the carpenters , argued mightily on how best to complete the dinette set they were working on . They finally agreed to table the discussion .

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It's not common knowledge who VanDeGraaf is. Even if it were, the joke doesn't make clear what his assistant is attending.

VanDeGraaf charged his assistant to attend .

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A fault is a fracture in a piece of rock. A fissure is a crack or a split in something. Geologists are people that study rocks. "It's not my fault" means "I am not responsible", and this references the crack in the cliff face. This joke is playing on the word "fault" and its different meanings.

Two geologists were staring at a huge fissure in a cliff face and one was overheard to say ' It ' s not my fault ' .

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When orange juice is made, it is sometimes concentrated and then frozen. Concentrated orange juice is orange juice with all the excess water removed. This yields a product that is more concentrated than the initial juice. Concentration can refer to the ability to focus on a task. So, "lack of concentration" takes on two meanings, which is the point of this joke.

There was a guy who was fired from the orange juice factory for lack of concentration .

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This is a pun on 'talent pool' which means a database of potential job candidates that have the potential to meet an organization's immediate and long-term needs, in this case the job being Olympic swimmers. But ths is also being used because swimmers use pools

Our country ' s olympic swimming program has quite a talent pool .

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Gardeners are people that cultivate plants. Plants have roots, and roots are the part of the plant that is undergound. It absorbs water and nutrients from the soil to nurture the plant. Roots can also refer to a person's family history, or origin. The joke centers around the word roots and different meanings.

A gardener who moved back to his home town rediscovered his roots .

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To "know the drill" of something is to know what to expect. A dentist's office has drills for peoples' teeth. To "know the drill" can also mean that the person is familiar with the drill used in the dentist's office. It's a play on the word drill.

I ' ve been to the dentist several times so I know the drill .

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Anybody who owns a printer has had to deal with the hassle when their printer died. Not. Funny.

OLD PRINTERS never die they ' re just not the type

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Cowboys are arnimal herders that tend to cattle. Cows are cattle. A calf is a baby cow. The plural of calf is calves. Calves can also refer to the muscle at the back of a person's leg below the knee. Branding is the act of marking another by burning their flesh with heat from an iron. This leaves the branded area sore. The joke is playing on the word calves and its different meanings. Calves, or the muscle beneath the knee, can get sore from exercise. Calves, the baby cows, are sore from getting branded.

During branding cowboys have sore calves .

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This is a pun on the word 'balance' which is this context is implying that accountants loose their even distribution of weight, but it's also being used because banks accounts have a balance

Old accountants never die , they just lose their balance .

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I think the joke is a pun. 'Hardest' can mean the most difficult, but it could also mean physically hard because it is a large rock that is being talked about.

My friend asked me to carve a sculpture out of a large rock . It was the hardest thing I ' ve ever had to make !

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This is a literal joke that uses the common word hive - as in a bee hive where bees live, or hive bumps or breakout someone might get on their skin after being exposed to a bite or sting.

My coach got stung by a bee . The next day he had hives .

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This is a play on words. The phrase "getting twelve months" refers to the thief getting a twelve month prison sentence for his crime. However, "getting twelve months" also refers to the thief stealing the calendar, since a calendar contains pages for each of the twelve months of the year.

A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months .

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Many varieties of cheese are commonly aged to add additional nuance and depth to their flavor. Aged cheese is frequently referred to as "mature". Young people throwing items at passerby is not mature in the sense that it is rude and impolite. Therefore if the piece of cheese they threw at the joke teller was not aged, their response to the act may refer to either sense of the word "mature"

I walked past a gang of youths yesterday and one of them threw a piece of cheese at me , which hit me on the back of the head . I turned round and shouted , ' ' That ' s not very mature ! ' '

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cavity is something that denist has to deal with when they work on teeth

She was only a Dentist ' s daughter , but everybody wanted to fill her cavity .

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This is a pun on 'foundation' which is initially referring to the definition of an underlying basis or principle, but it's also being used because 'foundation' can also mean the lowest load-bearing part of a building, typically below ground level, and to get this one would need to excavate the earth and therefore interacting with some geology

Geology class is the foundation of a decent education .

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The word "miss" can mean to fail to hit, or to feel a sadness at no longer being able to enjoy the presence of someone or something. The person that misses their ex-husband is most likely referring to their failure at hitting them. I say this because the next sentence is "but my aim is improving". The joke is playing on the word "miss" and its different meanings.

I still miss my ex - husband . But my aim is improving .

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This is a play on words. The word "relief" is a feeling of reassurance following release from anxiety or stress. But a "relief" map is a three-dimensional representation of terrain used in topography.

If you breathe heavily on the map , it will reveal topography , ' he said , with a sigh of relief .

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In baseball, a walk is when a pitcher throws four pitches out of the strike zone, and the hitter swings at none of them, they can acquire first base. A dog is an animal that needs to get walked, as in go outside and walk on the sidewalk, for their well-being. The joke is playing on the word "walk" and its different meanings.

A dog who played baseball always got walked .

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This is a pun on how indents in the ice are called ruts and are bad to skate on.

Figure skaters don ' t like to be in a rut .

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To get licked means get defeated. Licked can also mean to pass the tongue over something. Ice cream is a dessert that is licked, or a food that someone keeps passing their tongue over. The problem was "defeated" but the joke uses the word licked which is a verb used to explain how people consume ice cream.

Once ice cream was invented the problem was licked .

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"Boring" means something that is uninteresting. Boring can also mean to create a hole in something, especially with a revolving tool. A drill press creates holes. This joke is playing on the word "boring" and its different meanings.

If you operate a drill press you have a boring job .

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Gravity is a constant downard force on objects toward the planet. 'Putting people down' is a phrase that usually means belittling someone or making them feel bad. Gravity is literally putting people down on the ground, but the phrase makes it sound like gravity is being a bully.

Gravity , it ' s always putting everyone down .

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In aviation, turbulence refers to bad weather that affects how smooth a flight feels. The part that says "the passengers went flying" can mean that the passengers hurled through the air out of control, but it can also mean that they were simply flying as planned, without chaos. This joke is playing on the phrase "the passengers went flying" because it can be interpreted in two different ways.

When the plane hit turbulence , the passengers went flying .

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The joke is a pun on the word 'grain'. The phrase 'going against the grain' is usually said to mean 'going against tradition' or 'against the general standard'. Going against the grain of wood is usually related to sanding wood down, where it's easier to sand in the direction the lines of the grain on the wood go.

You won ' t often catch loggers or farmers going against the grain .

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The joke is a pun. A statue may be called a 'monument' dedicated to some person, group, or event. A 'monumental occasion' means an event that is great in importance, extent, or size.

The unveiling of the statue was a monumental occasion .

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The joke is a pun. 'Hooked on it' can be typically used to mean 'has a habit for' or 'is addicted to it'. 'Hooks' also generally refers to the sharp metal part on the end of a fishing line to catch fish.

Did you hear about the compulsive fisherman ? He was really hooked on it .

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This is a pun on 'hardened' which in this context means having become or been made hard or harder, like what would eventually happen if you fell into wet cement. But 'hardened' can also mean experienced in a particular job or activity and therefore not easily upset by its more unpleasant aspects, like those criminals who have spent a lifetime devoted to crime

When the thief fell in the wet cement and broke both legs , he became a hardened criminal .

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This is a play on words. The term "breaking news" refers to news that's hot off the press but here "breaking news" refers to news that is literally breaking apart because the clay tablets they're being written on are being chiseled apart.

Back when the news was written on clay tablets there was a lot of breaking news .

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The joke is a pun. 'Taking off' is a phrase that can mean 'growing successfully' as it relates one's career to a rocket launch. To be 'taking off' a day from work would mean to call out. The chronically absent employee's career was just 'taking off' time from work.

For a chronically absent employee : It seemed her career was just taking off .

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The joke is a pun on the word 'withdrawal'. Withdrawal when referring to money, means taking money out of one's account. 'Withdrawal symptoms' are the effects on the body from a lack of something it desires, often occurring as a result of drug abuse and suddenly stopping using drugs.

Whenever I go near my bank I get withdrawal symptoms .

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The joke is a pun. Monocles are like eyeglasses or spectacles for one eye. Two of them would make a pair of spectacles. 'Spectacle' can also mean 'a commotion' or 'a scene'.

Two monocles were making love in front of a window and made spectacles of themselves .

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This is a pun on 'sentence' which is a set of words that is complete in itself, typically containing a subject and predicate, conveying a statement, question, exclamation, or command, and consisting of a main clause and sometimes one or more subordinate clauses. But in the context of judge's, 'sentence' can also mean the punishment assigned to a defendant found guilty by a court, or fixed by law for a particular offense.

If a judge loves the sound of his own voice , expect a long sentence .

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The joke is a pun. To say someone's 'deilvery is perfect' is to say that they told a joke very well. A mailman literally delivers packages, so one could say a good mailman has perfect delivery.

My mailman should be a comedian , his delivery is perfect !

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The joke is a play on words. The phrase 'look into it' typically means to 'investigate or gather info' on something. One can literally look into a mirror to see their reflection however.

An old lady once asked the dispatcher of a local trucking company if they could ship an antique mirror to her sister in Toronto . The dispatcher says , ' I don ' t know madam , I ' d have to look into it first ' .

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A crop is a type of whip that is used in horse riding. A crop can also refer to a plant that can be grown and harvested extensively. The joke is making a riding whip sound like it can be planted, grown and harvested like a plant. The joke is playing on the word crop.

I ' ve planted part of a riding whip . I ' m hoping for a nice crop .

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Graphs often have legends to help you understand them

Some business graphs are full of legend .

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This is a pun on 'net gain' which is income received from the sale of goods subtracted by how much money was spent on their acquisition and/or production, but it's also being used because you can use nets to catch fish

The man found something to catch fish , which was a net gain .

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This is a pun on the phrase "struck me", which usually means when you finally undersand something. It's being used here because lightning can literally strike you too

I was struggling to figure out how lightning works then it struck me .

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A counter is a flat-topped fixture in a store where business transactions take place. A counter can also refer to a machine that keeps count of something. A mathematician is someone that is concerned with numbers, data, or quantity. The joke is playing off the different meanings of the word counter and relating it to a mathematician.

The best place for a mathematician is behind a counter .

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The joke is a pun. Thomas Eddison is famous for the lightbulb, among other electric inventions. Lightbulbs illuminate an area. An 'illuminating' experience is a learning experience that opens up one's mind to new ideas.

Edison thought it would be an illuminating experience .

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This is a pun on the word "developing". Photographers "develop" photographs, which is when they process it after taking the picture. "Develop" can also refer to a body growing or maturing. It is related to the concept of death because developing eventually leads to death and when you die you stop developing.

OLD PHOTOGRAPHERS never die they just stop developing .

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The joke is a pun. 'Get fired' could mean being terminated from a position of employment, or it could mean being launched out of a cannon, as human cannonballs in a circus tend to do.

OLD HUMAN CANNONBALLS never die they just get fired .

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This is a pun on the word cop. Another word for policeman is cop. To "cop out" is to back out of a situation.

OLD POLICEMEN never die they just cop out .

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This is a play on words. The word "projected" refers to Tom's manner of speaking but "projected" also refers to how movies are shown in theaters using projectors.

' ' This movie will be very popular , ' ' Tom projected .

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I think the joke is a pun. A 'dark day' could mean deeply troubling times, or it could mean the lighting literally being dark because of overcast clouds or the sun being blocked by an eclipse.

A politician decided to resign on the day of an eclipse because it was a dark day .

The given text is a pun

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A state can mean a piece of land, or territory. In physics, a state refers to a physical condition, which are typically categorized as being gas, liquid or solid. "The River Ravi flows in which state?" could be interpretated as someone asking about the territory, or name of the land it flows through. In this case, they want the physical condition, which is a liquid. The joke is centered on the word "state" and its different meanings.

Q : River Ravi flows in which state ? A : Liquid .

The given text is a pun

hom_1028

"Make up" means to compensate for something lost or missed. To take a make up exam means to take an exam that was missed. Make-up refers to cosmetics such as lipstick or powder applied to the face. The joke is talking about a cosmetic student. The joke is playing on the word make up which sounds like "make-up".

The cosmetic student was sick on the day of the final exam . Now she has to take a Make Up exam .

The given text is a pun

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Butter that melts is also rendered fat or butter. Something rendered useless is deemed not usable.

When the butter melted , it was rendered useless .

The given text is a pun

hom_1020

The joke is a pun. Sponges are tools typically for cleaning that absorb water. To get 'absorbed' in one's work means to fully dive deep into working, or become entirely focused on one's work.

Those who make sponges get very absorbed in their work .

The given text is a pun

hom_1018

The joke has a double meaning. You could look for something up your sleeves, or you could literally turn your sleeves up.

If your waiting for something to turn up , try your sleeves .

The given text is a pun