Subject: Puns for a Sunday
Egyptian Irrigation
During an anthropology class Harvard University, two students became
very interested in how the ancient Egyptians managed to irrigate that
dry country. They decided to visit Egypt to try to determine how the
ancient Egyptians drew water from the Nile. They went off to Egypt where
they found out that the same methods used over two thousand years ago
were still in place. They began examining the pipes, ducts and sewers of
Cairo. They even examined the bathroom facilities in the public
buildings. When they returned, they decided to change their course of
study from anthropology and become .... pharaoh faucet majors.
Hares to Paris
The French will eat almost anything. A young cook decided that the
French would enjoy feasting on rabbits and decided to raise rabbits in
Paris and sell them to the finer restaurants in the city. He searched
all over Paris seeking a suitable place to raise his rabbits. None could
be found. Finally, an old priest at the cathedral said he could have a
small area behind the rectory for his rabbits. He successfully raised a
number of them, and when he went about Paris selling them, a restaurant
owner asked him where he got such fresh rabbits. The young man replied,
"I raise them myself, near the cathedral. In fact, I have ..... a hutch
back of Notre Dame.
The Art Museum
A young couple Wilbur and Kay, were exploring the exhibits at the new
Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles one Sunday afternoon, when they came
upon the museum's famous collection of Eighteenth-Century French
Impressionist Art. Suddenly Wilbur, unfamiliar as he was with the fine
points of the period, came across a well-known painting which he
mistakenly thought was an example of pointillism. He immediately called
his wife over and naively exclaimed, .... "Kay, Seurat! Seurat!" ....
She took one bored look at the painting and replied, .... "Whatever,
Wilby, Wilby."
The Bride
Seems that a tribal chieftain's daughter was offered as a bride to the
son of a neighboring potentate in exchange for two cows and four sheep.
The big swap was to be effected on the shore of the stream that
separated the two tribes. Pop and his daughter showed up at the
appointed time, only to discover that the groom and his livestock were
on the other side of the stream. The father grunted, ... "The fool
doesn't know which side his bride is bartered on."
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