I like a good joke. But few things irk me more than a joke that doesn't quite make it.
Here are few coulda-been-funny cartoons. Click to almost-enjoy.
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Homonym toast? |
Words that sound similar but have different meanings are homonyms. He's a writer! He KNOWS the test should have been on "different words that mean the same thing."
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Fail |
If you're gonna play with a prefix, play with a prefix. "Perverse" is not from the Latin
per- (thoroughly)
-versus (turn towards). It's from a single French word. He could have made puns on adverse, converse, inverse, diverse, universe, even traverse, but not perverse (even though it's a funnier concept ~ it's still a fail).
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It's a home run, but you knew that, kid. |
The kid should have said "a four base hit." If he knows the phrase "home run," he wouldn't have called it a quadruple.
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Do you mean "caterpillar?" |
Baby butterflies? Sorry. Baby butterflies can't fly.
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A bit dated. |
So this one's about seventy years too late.
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Daddy? I don't get it. |
And this one's only forty years too late.
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And the winner is... |
That looks like about a 30' long telescope. That's a 10,000 millimeter refracting telescope. I can zoom 100x on my camera! He'd probably get 1000-4000 magnification on there. And although I guess the giant mechanism off to the left is supposed to keep the 'scope following a celestial object, it ain't following a seagull. Oh... and there's no such thing as a seagull.
I know what you mean, but come it's just a joke!
ReplyDeleteI think someone has got a lot of free time
ReplyDeletelol Which is one of those words that's spelled the same way forward or backwards