There’s nothing wrong with a good pun. The reason puns are thought of as lowly, or cheap, is because truly good puns are very difficult and very rare. They are not a pointless scrambling of words and letters, and they should not be so obvious–or so reaching—as to elicit nothing but groans and rolling eyes. In fact, puns are so difficult, an entire sub-genre of humor has grown up around them: jokes about how bad puns are. (See Pearls before Swine.) I’ve done maybe two or three good puns in my entire career. I count the above as one of them.
Clear as Mud
By Jimmy Johnson
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281 responses to “Clear as Mud”
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Ooooo, Jerry! I did not think of that! Yes, I’m pretty happy it’s not somewhere in my gastrointestinal tract right now. And “top secret stuff for the government”? Even I know that’s a line, and I’m trusting and naive.
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The first crown I ever had suddenly went “missing”.
“A very expensive snack,” one of the dental assistants called it.
But it’s true…all the guys that do “top secret stuff for the government” tell their girlfriends that they do top secret stuff for the government. That’s the first thing they teach them in Top Secret Government Stuff School.
Today I’ve seen firefighters risking their lives in California and Baltimore. It puts things somewhat in perspective.
Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead-to-know basis.
I’ve learned…. That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and
a heart to understand. AR
I wrote earlier that I was sending a link that I found here to a friend who’s rather skeptical about AGW. It’s in his column today at: http://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/busy-there-will-be-war/
You’ll need to scroll down, as it’s near the end and you may find his comment interesting.
Good morning Villagers….
Denise, Jerry is right, at least it’s in your hand 🙂 To answer your question, it is to prevent weeds becoming a harborage (like that $50 word) for rodents. We have bait monitors surrounding the hen house with mice death bait. Then inside, we have 12 mouse traps with feed in them. They get checked twice a week. The protocol for ‘euthanizing’ a mouse is drowning….we’re supposed to submerge the trap in water to ‘kill’ it. Me, I grab the tail (with gloves on) and just do a quick head to concrete contact and throw it in the pit. They can be carriers of anything, especially this Avian virus.
As a matter of fact, we got wrote up for having cardboard boxes for storing things like knee pads and cage parts…..had to get those big plastic storage bins…..
GR 😉 love your Top Secret Government Stuff School…..what a line to use on a woman 🙂
Jerry, is your step-daughter that naive? Wait, she’s doing drugs too, right? Seems her synapses aren’t firing.
Evan…had to look up some of them there words 🙂
Gal…thanks for the link, saved it. There are some other links on that page I want to read. The second photo is a look a like for my Goldee. Goldee is a very petite cat, she’s my forever kitteh.
Miss Charlotte?
Ian is coming back to my hen house and Marleen is going back to hen house #1…I’m going to miss her. A couple of Saturdays ago, she turned 69 and has worked for this family owned business for twenty some years. The Corp supplies the hens and feed. We provide the housing and labor and maintenance and so on and so on. I plan on working there till I drop dead.
Well, ya’ll have a blessed day…..
Anyone care to guess just how much all that TP cost? Expensive cat toy. Gal, TP was mentioned in your 7 reasons link 🙂
http://cheezburger.com/7555627264
Old Bear, I enjoy your little words of wisdom….thanks for sharing.
David, who cares about your dangling participles 🙂 thanks for your positive thoughts and prayers for all of here.
=^..^=
Got lunches fixed, eating breakfast which consist of a banana, P&J sandwich and one multivitamin for women….yum. I make Ian take one every morning too. He says he’s going to get his own for men as he doesn’t want to start growing ‘boobs’ 🙂
TIPs are = again. I happen to like bagpipes, but this is funny. Also sad. Peace, emb
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
I had to chuckle, Debbe, about Ian and the vitamin! That’s an area where my doctor and I have agreed to disagree. I take a multivitamin every day, too, and he believes that only specific vitamins in cases of proven deficiencies need to be taken. He says that my way just produces expensive pee.
After reading today’s real-time A&J, all I could think was, “Thank goodness! After all the big box ads showing clean, smiling people partying in the garden after a full day working hard outside, Jimmy shows it like it is!”
Debbe, good guess.
Denise in Michigan, big home gardens are a good reason to have your own hot tub. Then the two of you can relax together.
Ghost I lost a crown one time. This too shall pass. Never did find it though. I had them x-ray me to see if it was stuck somewhere and they wound up finding an “undefined mass” I went through a month of tests, worried that I had some kind of cancer. Also hopeful because I thought maybe the undigested crown might have a revealed a potentially deadly mass.
About a month later I got the all clear. However I did have a new appreciation of the importance of good health. BTW, my MIL worked at a dental office for years and told had they found it, they could have easily sterilized it and used it again. If you ever had a crown come off, no amount of mouthwash can get rid of the bad breath that you experience, so I guess I could live with it passing through my digestive system.
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