Pun and Games: Jokes, Riddles, Daffynitions, Tairy Fales, Rhymes, and More Word Play for Kids
ll weather the weather W'hatever the weather W'hether we like it or not You have been speaking hearing and reading puns most of your life When you were very young you prob ably chanted songs like and Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy was he A sailor went to C-C-C To see what he could C-C-C But all that he could C-C-C the bottom of a great blue C-C-C These verses are children's first attempts to put into memorable form their pleasure in discovering that the same sound can suggest two or three different mean ings-Wuzzy and was hej C sea and see Words and sounds that spark forth two or more meanings are called puns A pun has been defined as a play upon words a play up un words and a prey upon words Unless you were raised as a hermit or if you are a boy a hismit you probably recognize many of these traditional riddles What's black and white and red read all over A newspaper 2
It's a Punderful Life What did the letter say to the stamp Stick with me and we'll go places What kind of shoes are made from banana skins Slippers What kind of rooms have no walls Mushrooms How do you know when it's raining cats and dogs W'hen you step in a poodle How do you know when it's raining cats and dogs 3
PUN GjlM 1 S When is a door not a door When it's ajar What happened to the boy who drank 8 Cokes He burped 7-Up Pun Fun Here's a game riddled with punch lines Guess the punch lines to these popular Silly Billy jokes You'll find the answers to all questions in this book at the end of each chapter 1 Why did Silly Billy throw the clock out the window He wanted to see time 2 Why did Silly Billy throw the butter out the window He wanted to see butter 3 Why did Silly Billy take a ladder to the ball park He wanted to see the play 4 Why did Silly Billy tiptoe past the medicine cabinet He didn't want to wake up the pills 5 Why did Silly Billy jump off the Empire State Building He wanted to make a ______ on Broadway 4
It's a Punderful Life Now without any clues try to guess the answers to these elephant jokes 6 Where do elephants store their clothes 7 How do you make an elephant float 8 What happens to a grape when an elephant steps on it 9 How can you stop an elephant from charging 10 Who are the two most famous elephant singers Here are fifteen posters and placards that have ap peared around the world They are all signs of our times times in which we human beings love to fiddle with words and to laugh at the loony tunes that such fiddling produces At a tire store Time to re-tire Over a display of batteries Wanna start something In a music store window Guitars for sale Cheap No strings attached New Year they'd be insulting In a pet store window Merry Christmas and a Yappy On a peanut stand If our peanuts were any fresher In an ice cream and dairy store You can't beat our milk shakes but you can whip our cream and lick our Ice-cream cones In a shoe store Come in and have a fit In a real estate office Get lots for little In a butcher shop window Never a bum steer 5
