Puns and Word Play Humor Trivia

61. Which government building was visited by the horse wanting to complain about the city council?

From Quiz Puns and Word Play

Answer: Office of the Mayor

The word play combines the word "mayor", who is the highest ranking official in the local governing body of cities, towns or shires - and a "mare", a female horse. Mare is a homophone for mayor. Obviously, that aggrieved horse would want to see the mayor mare to complain about the city council.

From Quiz Punioms

Answer: Ivory tower

An "Ivory tower" is a term used to describe someone who is a bit dreamy, distant from the rest of society, and usually absorbed in intellectual pursuits. The original expression, which had nothing to do with academic interests, dates back to the Bible's "Song of Solomon" (7:4), when King Solomon likens his love's slender neck to that of an ivory tower, pure and white and perfect. In this modern age, anyone who is very tall is usually endowed with one of several nicknames, "tower" being one of them. Teeth are more often than not also described as "pearly whites" or "ivories" as well. So the pun is in the towering university professor absorbed in his studies (the ivory tower), wearing a new set of "ivories" in his mouth.

From Quiz Yet More Puns

Answer: Honey Honey

"Honey Honey" appears as the second single on the famous Swedish group ABBA's second album, "Waterloo". Released in 1974, it was written by Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Stig Anderson, and recorded both in English and Swedish. The song has nothing to do with honey the product at all, but the word is repeated many times over to indicate a romantic attachment. The product honey is a delicious, nourishing and life giving substance made by nature's little miracles, bees. As depicted in a cave painting in France, man has collected and eaten this product for at least 8,000 years. Apart from being consumed for food, some of its uses by man over time have included healing skin wounds, burns and ulcers, as a mild form of antibiotics, easing coughs, helping deal with some of the unpleasant side effects of radiation and chemotherapy treatments, as a sugar substitute in cooking, and embalming the dead. The pun rests in combining the title of the song with the honey produced by bees.

From Quiz The Punny Side of the Law

Answer: Hanging

The investigative team were all hanging around the crime scene waiting for SOCO to finish their job. "Just don't leave me hanging around as the suspense is killing me! Have you got anything to tie the murderer to the scene?" asked the officer in charge. "Frayed knot!" said the man from forensics. They were eventually able to rope in the witness to lead them to the murderer who was hung out to dry as he waited for his trial date.

From Quiz More Puns Still

Answer: Howdah

The pun here is on the use of "Howdah" for "Howdy", a word usually associated with rootin' tootin' cowboys. A howdah is a carriage fastened onto the back of elephants, one that is used for carrying passengers.

From Quiz In Your Absinthe

Answer: The limelight

Lime is a citrus fruit. 'Being in the Limelight' is to be the centre of attention. Limelight was a form of calcium light that was used to illuminate stages in theatres.

From Quiz How Punny

Answer: Stretched

Physiotherapist are trained healthcare professionals who examine, diagnose, and work out a series of exercises and stretches to treat all kinds of physical injuries or distorted disease-related limbs such as those caused by poliomyelitis. Their work of course is far more detailed than that, but that's a general description of the job. Though the physiotherapist above undoubtedly did all the other choices given for this question, the pun is in the stretches carried out or supervised in his/her day's work, and, what most of us do when waking up from a sleep, having a good old stretch to help get the blood flowing through our veins again.

From Quiz Floral Word Play

Answer: Carnation

Good old Henry Ford (1863-1947) was the developer of the assembly line for quick manufacture of cheap, affordable, smelly, polluting, dangerous, convenient, loud, now overly-expensive, motor vehicles. Will history eventually see him as a hero or a villain, I wonder? The beautiful carnation has been cultivated by man for approximately 2,000 years. Just as lovely as roses, they perhaps lack the true elegance of that gracious plant. In the language and history of flowers, carnations, which come in various colours, have many symbolisms. Red ones, for example, represent love and admiration, and also socialism (how insulting to associate a lovely bloom with grotty politics), purple represents capriciousness or sorrow, and white stands for purity. The delicate pink carnation has a lovely but sad association as well. It represents the tears of the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, who, as she saw her son falling under the weight of the cross, cried heartbrokenly. As her tears fell to the ground, carnations sprang in their stead.

From Quiz Very Punny, Very Punny

Answer: Dairy

How dare he, indeed! It could be worse, I could've been hit with a large Cheddar cheese - an exceptional cheese that was presented to Queen Victoria weighed in excess of five hundred and fifty kilos or eleven hundredweight. Dairy products have been a part of the human diet, it is believed, for around seven thousand years with evidence of a yogurt-like product being made and eaten in North Africa since this time. Humans began to process milk into a range of dairy products as intolerance to lactose was widespread within our species and processing milk was the only way of lowering the lactose content to a level that prevented illness.

From Quiz More Pun Fun

Answer: I fort I taw a puddy tat

Tweety, also known as Tweety Bird, was an animated young canary created by Warner Brothers back in 1942. Because he was a young bird when originally presented, he was endowed with a voice that still hadn't mastered the correct pronunciation of many words. He was frequently at risk of being caught and consumed by Sylvester the Cat - and whenever he spied that fiend about, was famous for exclaiming "I tawt I taw a puddy tat!" (I thought I saw a pussycat). A fort was a defensive structure in which soldiers resided in many old western movies, where they were frequently attacked in Indian raids. The pun rests in the words "fort" and "tawt".

From Quiz Tom Swifty And The Heartbreakers

Answer: Negatively

In this case, an anode is the negatively charged terminal of a voltaic cell or battery, therefore, Tom's negative statement and the adverb "negatively" generates the pun referring to the anode.

From Quiz Apun My Soul!

Answer: Lemonade

Lemonade (the pun would be "lemon aid") has been around in various forms for a very long time. This refreshing fluid is ideal for consumption in the long, hot summer months. Its basic ingredients are simply the juice of squeezed lemons, water and sugar. Mixed and chilled, it is a truly delicious and cooling drink. Middle Eastern countries use the addition of either limes, strawberries, or oranges as well and flavour their drinks with ginger, or, astonishingly, salt, saffron or garlic. Garlic flavoured lemonade. That's a new one. Perhaps Australia will introduce a Vegemite flavoured lemonade, now that the flood gates have been opened. Commercial carbonated lemonade of course is also sold, and, apart from being tasty, is also excellent to help one burp, or to allow go flat and sip when feeling ill. Astonishingly, lemonade has other health benefits as well, for it's been found that one glass of home made lemonade a day can help stop the formation of kidney stones. Now if that doesn't justify rushing out to purchase a few bottles of the drink, then goodness knows what will. Hang the waistline.

From Quiz One More Punny Quiz

Answer: Hair today gone tomorrow

Baldness in men is known as alopecia. It can be hereditary, trauma, compulsive tugging at the hair or caused by an autoimmune disorder. Human beings have approximately 150,000 strands of hair on their heads. Baldness can sometimes prove very distressing for those who have it. They feel the external image they portray is less than the ideal image they would prefer, and they will sometimes go to great lengths to disguise the fact that baldness is simply another part of their lovely selves.

From Quiz Don't Worry, It's Treatable!

Answer: Slim, madam.

The majority of overweight people would like to be slim, even if it means making lifestyle changes to eat more healthily and therefore reduce excess weight. This could take either weeks or months, all depending on how much weight has to be lost.

From Quiz Pussy Puns

Answer: A nice purr son

When moggies are contented and filled with a sense of well being, they purr. One of the most soothing and heart warming sounds in the world is a happy purr from your puss. One can, however, do without the contented kneading that goes with it. Their claws are deadly sharp. A person is a member of the human being sub-family. Some of these can be extremely catty, but treat them the right way, and you'll have them purring in no time.

From Quiz Another Punny Quiz

Answer: Minors

Snow White fled from the murderous designs on her life by her wicked step-mother, and found haven in the homes of seven gallant dwarves who never even dreamed of taking advantage of her even when they found her asleep across their beds. What gentlemen. Though they couldn't save her from the wicked queen who eventually got to Snow White (whom, I might add, had parents with dubious tastes when it came to naming her), the likeable lads did give her a beautiful funeral. That's some consolation. A kiss from a very strange but handsome prince who just happened to be riding past and saw her corpse in its coffin, re-awakened the princess, and, to save having to explain his peculiar fetish, he hastily proposed to her. They subsequently married, and more or less lived happily ever after, even though Snow White disliked the fact that their newly built castle had been erected right next to the local cemetery.

From Quiz A Punny Quiz

Answer: Santa Claws

Domesticated cats are small, furry little creatures that are purrfectly delightful to watch. Cats that have become feral, however, are not so delightful. In order to survive, they stalk and kill many of nature's smaller birds and animals. Owning a cat (which should always be kept locked up at night) is a relaxing and enjoyable experience. These fluid, graceful creatures are immensely entertaining, particularly when, wearing a bewildered expression, they get an attack of the gallops and tear madly through the house for no apparent reason at all.

From Quiz By Order of the Pun-Master General

Answer: "Un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq"!

The Pun-Master General shouted at the top of his voice "Un (one), deux (two), trois (three), quatre (cats), cinq (sank)!" A nearby farmer immediately came to the rescue and was able to avert a cat-astrophe by rescuing the three drowning cats. He later found out that one of the cats had chased a duck to the river and he was now a duck filled fatty puss!

From Quiz American Insults and Idioms

Answer: leg

He is "putting you on" or "trying to pull the wool over your eyes". This term didn't always have the benign meaning it has today. In 18th century London it referred to being tripped or knocked down by a criminal in order to confuse or frighten.

From Quiz Lady Mondegreen Ate Nine Eggcorns

Answer: acorn

Linguists Geoffrey Pullum and Mark Lieberman are credited with inventing the term "eggcorn" in 2003 to describe a misheard word or phrase that has an ironic sort of logic about it. The difference between an eggcorn and a mondegreen is vague, but mondegreens are usually mishearings of verse, in a song or a poem, while an eggcorn is the mishearing of an ordinary word or phrase that makes a quirky kind of sense and is usually not discovered until the person tries to look it up or someone else laughs at it.

From Quiz That Pun Is A Crime!

Answer: He got caught red handed

Boy, was his face red too! In addition to the recent crime spree, the blood bank had to deal with a lot of vampires. They were all there to open up a savings account. It sucked up quite a bit of time.

From Quiz A Lovely Punny Day For a Family Quiz

Answer: Courting

Dickens had one of his characters remarking that the law is an ass. That was very judge-mental of him, don't you think?

From Quiz One Way or an Udder - Farmyard Puns

Answer: Disgruntled

Yes, the pig makes no noise. His grunt is gone. He sure is one disgruntled porcine. I had some pigs move in next door. I tell you, they're some pretty noisy neighboars.

From Quiz Word for Word

Answer: Dove

A species of bird (often used as a symbol of peace) is a Dove (duhv). Dove (dohv) is the simple past tense of dive, meaning to plunge or fall into something.

From Quiz Let's Get Down To Bismuth - Elementary Puns

Answer: Barium

Of course, if you have a dead chemist, you'll want to bury him, or as the pun suggests, barium. Ha ha. Oh dear. Barium is a silvery-white alkaline earth metal, and is one of several metals used to give fireworks their colour, in this case, green. Barium has the symbol Ba, and an atomic number of 56.

From Quiz Going Back Four Seconds - Math Puns 2

Answer: Counter

My friend gave up mathematics and did carpentry instead. He has been very counter-productive.

From Quiz That's So Punny!

Answer: Homophonic Pun

A homophonic pun is one that plays on words that sound the same, but are spelled differently, and mean different things. As Walter Redfern put it, "To pun is to treat homonyms as synonyms."

From Quiz A Man Walks Into A Bar...

Answer: "OUCH!" (You would have thought he would have seen it!)

Ha ha! This joke uses a literal interpretation (i.e., the man physically crashes into the bar). The other choices are complete fabrications.

From Quiz The Opun Library

Answer: A Midsummer Night's Scream

Shakespeare wrote "A Midsummer Night's Dream" which fits the question.

From Quiz Palinagrams

Answer: Evian & naive

Other than the brand name, "Evian" is not a real word. The closest, in spelling (not meaning- semantics) is avian- Of, relating to, or characteristic of birds. Some lesser known definitions of "naive" include "Not previously subjected to experiments: testing naive mice." and "Not having previously taken or received a particular drug: persons naive to marijuana." So if I was an expert on drugs but had never taken marijuana I would be naive TO but not ABOUT it.

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