Let’s Sail Into Some Pun Fun for Columbus Day
Cristoffa Corombo was born in the Republic of Genoa (now in Italy) in 1451. He began his career as a seaman in the Portuguese merchant marine. Later, in Spain, he was known as Christóbal Colón. We know...
View ArticleWe Can All Learn From The Animals How To Succeed
Welcome to a yearlong centennial celebration of the San Diego Zoo, most universally voted the best zoo in the US of A. Starting with animals left over from the 1915-1916 Panama-California Exposition,...
View ArticleDespite his death 400 years ago, Shakespeare lives
In last week’s column I commemorated the death of William Shakespeare 400 years ago, on April 23, 1616. The cause of the Bard’s exiting the earthly stage remains a mystery, but an entry in the diary of...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Jokes About Animals In Bars – Bar None
Charles Dickens walks into a bar and orders a martini. The bartender asks, “Olive or twist?” Over the past several decades many jokes have featured all manner of people and other creatures walking into...
View ArticleTeachers Report On Their Famous Students’ Progress
This is the time of year when teachers send parents evaluations of their children’s academic and social progress. Here are some school reports about famous literary characters in their early years: •...
View ArticlePlease Read My Labor Day Lament: Nothing Works For Me
With Labor Day coming up, I’ve decided to share with you my checkered workplace history: My first job was working in an orange juice factory, but I got couldn’t concentrate on the same old boring rind,...
View ArticleOn Halloween, the Slogan is ‘Puns Spooken Here!’
At the spirited Halloween ball the ghosts had a wail of a time. They danced sheet to sheet and boo-gied to some haunting melodies that the band played from sheet music. Awraitha Franklin sang soul and...
View ArticleNow is the Perfect Time to Laugh at Political Tickles
In this year of electile dysfunction, with just a few days left before the race for the presidency crosses the finish line, political jokes can be very powerful. That’s why so many of them get elected....
View ArticleOh, What Fun it is to Play with Christmas Songs
A mondegreen is a word or words formed from a misinterpretation of what the word or words actually are, such as “take it for granite,” for “take it for granted” and “for all intensive purposes” for...
View ArticleGoblin Up a Full Corpse Feast of Halloween Puns
Falling on October 31, Halloween is the year’s spookiest holiday. On that day we carve faces in pumpkins, dress in horrible costumes and go out trick or treating. The traditions associated with...
View ArticleCelebrate Psalm Pun Day with the Easter Bunny
Easter commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion. Easter was the earliest feast day decreed by the ancient Christian Church. Many Christians consider Easter...
View ArticleU-T Readers Work as Super-Duper Blooper Snoopers
The dictionary defines a gaffe as a blunder; faux pas.” Faux pas derives from the French “false step,” and gaffe may descend from the French gaff, “a barbed spear used in landing a large fish.” Local...
View ArticleWhy June is the Perfect Month for Perfect Marriages
Why do so many weddings take place in June? Go back centuries, and you will find that the Romans traditionally married in June to honor Juno, the goddess of marriage, and ensure an auspicious union. I...
View ArticleAre You Guilty of Phubbing the People Around You?
“Have Smart Phones Destroyed a Generation?” asks SDSU psychologist Jean M. Twenge in a recent Atlantic magazine article. She concludes that, in many ways, they have, as evidenced by increases in...
View ArticleEnjoy a Stockingful of Punderful Christmas Humor
How do cats greet each other at Christmas? “Have a furry meowy Christmas!” How do dogs greet each other at Christmas? “Yappy howl-a-days!” How do sheep greet each other at Christmas? “Season’s...
View ArticleHappy New Year! It’s So Nice to Have You Near!
A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. In fact, 80 percent of all New Year’s resolutions are broken by the end of February. May all your troubles last as long as...
View ArticleWeep weep, honk honk! ‘Prepostrophes’ prevail!
I call apostrophe catastrophes “prepostrophes.” These crimes against civilized punctuation include house signs that read The Smith’s when they should read The Smiths or The Smiths’. Other folks...
View ArticleGet Thee to a Punnery
During these perilous and uncertain days when it can seem as if the sky is falling, I’m hoping that some pun fun may add a dollop of brightness to your life. I believe that humor makes us happy, and...
View ArticleTo Celebrate Library Week, Play This Bookish Game
Tomorrow kicks off National Library Week. According to a recent Gallup poll taken before the invasion of COVID-19, visiting the library remained the most common cultural activity Americans engage in,...
View ArticleJest for the pun of it, pun for all and all for pun!
A month ago, I invited you, my punderful readers, to submit your best original preys on words. Within hours, a punami of more than 50 original puns poured in, and by the deadline for submission, I swam...
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