(1) King Ozymandias of Assyria was running low on cash after years of
war with the Hittites. His last great possession was the Star of the
Euphrates, the most valuable diamond in the ancient world.
Desperate, he went to Croesus, the pawnbroker, to ask for a loan.
Croesus said, "I'll give you 100,000 dinars for it."
"But I paid a million dinars for it," the King protested. "Don't you
know who I am? I am the king!"
Croesus replied, "When you wish to pawn a Star, makes no difference who
you are."
(2) Evidence has been found that William Tell and his family were avid
bowlers. However, all the Swiss league records were unfortunately
destroyed in a fire, and we'll never know for whom the Tells
bowled.
(3) A man rushed into a busy doctor's office and shouted "Doctor!
I think I'm shrinking!!" The doctor calmly responded, "Now, settle
down.
You'll just have to be a little patient."
(4) A marine biologist developed a race of genetically engineered
dolphins that could live forever if they were fed a steady diet
of
seagulls. One day, his supply of the birds ran out so he had to
go
out and trap some more.
On the way back, he spied two lions asleep on the road. Afraid to wake
them, he gingerly stepped over them. Immediately, he was arrested and
charged with transporting gulls across sedate lions for immortal
porpoises.
(5) Back in the 1800s the Tates Watch Company of Massachusetts wanted
to
produce other products and, since they already made the cases for
watches, they used them to produce compasses. The new compasses
were so bad that people often ended up in Canada or Mexico rather
than California. This, of course, is the origin of the
expression,
"He who has a Tates is lost!"
(6) A thief broke into the local police station and stole all the
toilets and urinals, leaving no clues. A spokesperson was quoted
as saying, "We have absolutely nothing to go on."
(7) An Indian chief was feeling very sick, so he summoned the medicine
man. After a brief examination, the medicine man took out a long, thin
strip of elk rawhide and gave it to the chief, telling him to bite off,
chew, and swallow one inch of the leather every day.
After a month, the medicine man returned to see how the chief was
feeling. The chief shrugged and said, "The thong is ended, but the
malady lingers on."
(8) A famous Viking explorer returned home from a voyage and found his
name missing from the town register. His wife insisted on complaining
to
the local civic official who apologized profusely saying, "I must have
completely taken Leif off my census."
9) There were three Indian squaws. One slept on a deer skin, one slept
on an elk skin, and the third slept on a hippopotamus skin. All three
became pregnant, and the first two each had a baby boy. The one who
slept on the hippopotamus skin had twin boys. This goes to prove
that the squaw of the hippopotamus is equal to the sons of the
squaws of the other two hides.
(10) A skeptical anthropologist was cataloging South American folk
remedies with the assistance of a tribal brujo who indicated that the
leaves of a particular fern were a sure cure for any case of
constipation. When the anthropologist expressed his doubts, the
brujo looked him in the eye and said, "Let me tell you, with
fronds like these, who needs enemas?"
By the way, the guy who wrote these 10 puns entered them in a contest.
He figured with 10 entries, he couldn't lose. As they were reading the
list of winners, he was really hoping one of his puns would win, but
unfortunately, no pun in ten did.)
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