All posts for the month June, 2010

Beware of Greeks Baring Drifts

Irregular Webcomic! is by David Morgan-Mar. Occasionally, he includes wonderful puns. This one was originally published on October 30, 2004.


Plato techtonics

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The Craziest Language

Stan Kegel posted this to the groaners listserv. It is a nice accompaniment for the previous offering “English is Tough Stuff”. Yes. It is.


We’ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes.
But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes.

The one fowl is goose, but two are called geese.
Yet the plural of moose, should never be meese.

You may find a lone mouse or a nest of mice.
But the plural of house is

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Why is English the Lingua Franca?

ENGLISH IS TOUGH STUFF


Multi-national personnel at North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters near Paris found English to be an easy language … until they tried to pronounce it. To help them discard an array of accents, the verses below were devised. After trying them, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months at hard labor to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself.

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps,

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A Tall Ship Tale #59: The Red Badge of Curry

Another entry from Paul DeAnguera.


From the wisteria-scented shade of a massive stone colonnade, the Legume’s officers looked curiously down the broad avenue. Beyond the rows of lotus towers and carved sandstone temples of the Kmer Empire, the god-king’s procession was approaching. First came the soldiers, their helmets and lances glittering in the tropical sun. Silk banners and standards followed, caressing the hot wind. Next came the musicians, many of whom were bonzes, or Buddhist monks, from various nations.

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Shaggy Gamma

Irregular Webcomic! is by David Morgan-Mar. Occasionally, he includes wonderful puns. This one was originally published on October 4, 2004.


Our gamma is increasing

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Shaggy Education

xkcd is a webcomic by Randall Munroe. Sometimes he includes puns that are usually of a mathematical and/or scientific nature.


There must be 50 ways to learn to hover.

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Shaggy Philosophy

Irregular Webcomic! is by David Morgan-Mar. Occasionally, he includes wonderful puns.

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The Flighty Mare

Posted by Stan Kegel on the groaners listserv.


Jake Styles had just bought a farmhouse in the country, barn and all. “Great!” he thought “now I can get that horse I have always wanted!” So he goes down the road to Farmer Ben’s house, and tells him he wants to buy a horse.

“Well, I only have one mare right now, and she’s kind of flighty.”

“I don’t care!” Jake says “I think she’s beautiful!”

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Shaggy Operating Systems

Irregular Webcomic! is by David Morgan-Mar. Occasionally, he includes wonderful puns. This one was originally published on September 26, 2004.


A plague on both your OSes!

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Shaggy Clouds

Irregular Webcomic! is by David Morgan-Mar. Occasionally, he includes wonderful puns. This one was originally published on September 8, 2004.


Brace yourselves! This is going to Oort!

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