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LANGUAGE HUMOR AT ITS FINEST
Making yourself more proficient in English need not be a drag. You can actually speed up the learning process and make it fun by generously lacing it with humor—but preferably the best that the English language can offer.
In this new section, apart from giving a fixed slot to our weekly “In a Lighter Vein” pop-out humor piece in the Forum homepage, we have put together the finest of those weekly humor pop-ups since the Forum started. The best of them—collected from various sources on the web and sent in by friends—are all here, posted in the Forum under the following headings: Wordplay, On the Job, Student and School Life, and Miscellany.
So if you missed any of the best of the Forum’s weekly humor pop-ups, you can enjoy and savor them again and again here—and better still, share them with your friends!
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Questions To Ponder (Vol. I)
If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?
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Would a fly without wings be called a walk?
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Can you be a closet claustrophobic?
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If the funeral procession is at night, do folks drive with their lights off?
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If a stealth bomber crashes in a forest, will it make a sound?
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When it rains, why don’t sheep shrink?
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If the cops arrest a mime, do they tell her she has the right to remain silent?
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Why is the word abbreviation so long?
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If a book about failures doesn’t sell, is it a success?
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Do cemetery workers prefer the graveyard shift?
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What do you do when you discover an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants?
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Do hungry crows have ravenous appetites?
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Is it possible to be totally partial?
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What’s another word for thesaurus?
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When companies ship Styrofoam, what do they pack it in?
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If it’s tourist season, why can’t we shoot them?
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Why do they sterilize the needles for lethal injections?
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Why is there an expiration date on my sour cream?
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Why do kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
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How do you know when it’s time to tune your bagpipes?
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Is it true that cannibals don’t eat clowns because they taste funny?
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Why do they call it a TV set when you only get one?
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If you shoot a mime, should you use a silencer?
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What was the best thing before sliced bread?
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How can they tell that twin lobsters are really twins?
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How does a thermos know when to keep something hot, hot...and something cold, cold?
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Why are there Braille signs on drive-up ATMs?
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If women wear a pair of pants, a pair of glasses, and a pair of earrings, why don’t they wear a pair of bras?
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How come you never hear about gruntled employees?
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Why isn’t phonetic spelt the way it sounds?
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