Puns with Impunity

MISC

if you wrote an article exploring the effects of odors on restuarant goers, would you call it scents & cents

if you wrote an article exploring people's ability to smell faint odors, would you call it scents and sense-ability

why did they decide to become a perfumer?
it just made scents

why the slytherin join the usps?
they were a parcelmouth

if you use chap stick, are you giving lip service?

i'm such a piece of trash that if i hang out somewhere i get charged with littering instead of loitering

if your company sells glasses that do not form condensation, is it a dewy decimation system

if you get food poisoning from a native american meal, do you sue the sioux sous chef

if your theater teacher is cool, are they an acting class class act?

if you use mouthwash while on the phone is it a telescope

Ralph Nader's nadir: confused why his horse won't neigh, reins in.  "nay, dear, that's a reindeer"

fashion faux-pas:
socks with scandals
socks with vandals
spocks with candles

if your arms hurt from driving your coworkers through the big dig, do you have carpool tunnel syndrome

if you get hired because they misspelled your name and mistook you for someone famous, did you get typo-cast

If it ain't broke don't fix it, unless its a dog or cat.

if you stuff a dead animal with your old 1040EZs is it taxidermy

if you dress up a cat like a cowboy is it a desper-gato

if you make derisive comments about large river mammals in africa are you hippo-critical

if you have a bird of prey as an illicit pet and it gets sick, is it an illegal ill eagle

forgot paypal i want papayapal

trickle down economics:
all you get instead of affluence is effluence

always put the right foot forward and then in your mouth

notice me senpie chart

another day another dolor

why is it courteous to curtsy but not to be curt

neil de gaiman tyson?

delicate deli cat

if you are learning copywrite by rote, are you copying writing about writs

start a restaurant called posh nosh and serve panache ganache and low-key gnocci

no man is an island, except for the isle of man

Harrison Ford could not afford to ford the fjord in his Ford

a streetcar named dies irae

whatever doesn't kill me makes me stranger

my blood runs cold
my browser history has just been sold

ghost in the shell more like ghost in the shellacked by critics

why couldn't the illiterate wizard do magic
...they couldn't spell

why did the hay farmer get out of jail
...they made bale

is mar a lago old dun tramp's last resort

is a device designed to discourage people from illegally downloading things called a detorrent

"should we climb the ladder or the rope"
"the latter"

abstruse - when you make peace with the fact you'll never have a 6-pack

diction is my addiction

i think i'm a hypochondriac but for mental disorders
like right there were i said i was a hypochondriac but for mental disorders

if you cook sausages for kids are they brats for brats

babadooks of hazzard
babadook o'riley
babadaisydooks

if a british person twirls a wrench around is it a fidget spanner

did you hear about the sea urchin that called 911 cuz it was hungry
it was a cry for kelp

if Dirty Jobs helped you understand the world, is it a Mike-Roe-cosm?

If you wanted a good look at some dirt stuck in your teeth from filming Dirty Jobs, do you use a Mike Roe Scope?

A (corporeal) corporal from the army corps found a corpse in a copse.

i used detergents but men still bother me

clear and president danger

when the meat has finished grilling, is it your cue to queue for barbecue

are local laws about public art state statue statutes

if you are entering someone's blood type into a database and accidentally say they are a universal donor
...is it a typo

bad mash ups: salvador dali lama

terrible meme mashups:
grapefruit blowjob lady falls

nuns have strict routines, after all, they are creatures of habit

if i had cows, i'd call my farm "legend dairy"

the oaf in office forgot the oath of office

what state should you go to if you can't find lunch meat
deli-where?

fighting against renewable energy is tilting at windmills

do you think there were polydactyl pterodactyls

fools russian
where angels fear to tread

if you dress up as spooky pocahontas
is it poca-haunt-us

if you meet some one new in the antarctic how do you break the ice

if a witness talks about the accused's blasphemies is it hearsay heresy

does someone make chuck tingle chuck taylors

if you outlaw the draft is it a conscription proscription

a tragedy in 6 words: "boston butt is a shoulder cut"

if someone walks in and its love at first site are you entranced by their entrance

would an anime featuring marty mcfly be called baka to the future

life is stranger things fall apart

"why are you spending your bitcoin making your own electrical grid"
"it's crypto current, see?"

if you are a fan of wooden shoes do you start a clog blog or perhaps (to flog a dead horse) a clog vlog

if you know your answer is wrong and you found a mistake in your work but it didn't change your answer, was it a red erring

i imagine someone has tried to take the wrong pair of shoes on a set and got told "those boots were made for Walken"

if you are thinking about making hot spiced wine are you mulling it over

if draco was hot and bothered would you say he looked harried

if a bunch of people dress up as their favorite sith lord is it a kylo ren fest

if you unexpectedly win some maple products is it a surprise syrup prize

is a fussy cat purrsnickety?

if you over cook your meat is it a miss-steak?

is placentophagy a Cesarean salad?

is the Hulk a choler-ed green?
sea anemone or CNN-enmity

if you enjoy your visit to Chernobyl do you give it a glowing recommendation?

if you are famous for growing herbs, are you a paragon of tarragon?

if you ask to ring a bell is it a peal appeal?

if you don't believe in global warming are you anti-climatic?

if you ate too much did you nine?

if you make tomato sauce by the sea is it marina marinara?

you say its sentimental, i say it's sediment

you say your apartment is homey but it's just homely

why doesn't anyone like the designated driver?
they drive everyone to drink

An adult and a dolt.

Goal in life: invite some friends who like board games over to play a 'tile-placing game' and get them to retile my kitchen.

if you have a relative who hates insects is she an anti-ant aunt?

someone should start a health food brand called Chip & Kale

if you can't wait to see your mother's sister, is it aunticipation?

if you are brainstorming ways to get a co-conspirator out of jail, are your free associating to free an associate?

if you are mad about the smells from a neighboring apartment, are you incensed by incense and do you censor censers?

draw and quarter me like one of your english girls, jack the ripper

if you give up on your OTP have you abandoned ship?

if you are talking about the recent intense weather, is it a topical storm?

no matter how hard I study I always get a B- on blood tests

if you hurt your back chopping wood you are a lumberjack who jacked their lumbar?

If you are a determined ass, are you a donkey-ote?

if something benefits male thieves, is it rogue-gain for men?

remember the time the paladin got stuck in the mud? it was mid-knight

if cuddling with a contented cat helps you sleep, is it so-purr-ific?

if you want to applaud someone getting their degree, do you congraduate them?

if you try to sell ham to falcons, do you hawk hocks to hawks?

did you hear about the antelope who kept stabbing people with its horns? they called it vlad the impala

phd students are to theses as monkeys are to feces

movie idea: a shakespearean western called rodeo and juliet

i got my hair cut, it was a weight off my mind, but now i feel a little light-headed.

if someone talks up their guac a lot, is it avocado bravado

if you are incubating eggs, do you get hot chicks?

if you have a contest to identify things based off their odors, is it a smelling bee?

if you stumble and fall towards a sea bird, is it auk-ward?

if you get used to living in the country, have you become ac-quaint-ed?

if your new years celebration gimmick fails, did you drop the ball on the ball dropping?

if you keep someone at arms length, aren't you giving them the cold shoulder?

if you say goodbye to some fish which are weaving back and forth, do you shalom salmon slaloms?

if you make mech suits, should you solder soldiers' shoulders?

if you somehow got mono twice do you have stereo?

is a bra a booby trap?

who can take over eurasia? genghis can

if you break your glasses, do you have to use your emergency contacts?

if you regularly make fries with gravy and cheese curds, do you have a poutine routine?

if you flatten a bunch of undead with a car, is it a zomboni?

if you are very exasperated do you admit thunder sighs?
if you smash desserts, do you sunder pies?
if you initially avoid someone then move closer so your legs touch, do you have tsundere thighs?

if you have two statues in your garden is it bi-gnome-ial?

if a french loaf is found at a crime scene, do they say ``baguette? bag it and tag it''?

if you have too many accessories, are they excessories?

if someone tries to listen in on Stephen's conversations, are they stevesdropping?

some people have domestic partners, some people have feral partners

if you have old coins which are no longer legal tender, are they pastency instead of currency?

if you are very hot and under a lot of pressure, does your carbon footprint become a diamond footprint?

you get a fancy car.
what fuel do you put in your fancy car? mercedes-benzene
what disease do you get from driving your fancy car up a mountain too quick? the mercedes-bends
what medicine do you take for your disease? mercedes-benzedrine

i'mma gonna have a daughter
name her mel
give her a border collie
and label the pictures ``mel and collie''

if someone asks if you like their dress and you equivocate, then are you trying to skirt the issue?

I'm gonna start a powerful unlicensed radio station, and call it national pirate radio, or NPArr for short.

if you make jello shots, does that mean the 80 proof is in the pudding

if you used to be pert, does that make you an ex-pert?

if you are feeling morose but someone makes you feel better, are you then lessrose?

if you try to convince someone that handbags should be made of leather, are you trying to purse-suede them?

after the crazed man was tazed, he was not unfazed: he had a glazed, dazed gaze like he was lost in a hazy maze

if you keep track of how many times some one insults you, is it a discount?

if you commit a cyber crime, do they throw the ebook at you?

if someone gives you tips on how to play with your cat without moving are they lazier laser pointer pointers?

if your spouse's family are in-laws, is your own family outlaws?

if you try to enumerate all your complaints, are you trying to kvetch them all?

if someone claims to be allergic to goose down, do you thank them for their gander dander candor, or do you denounce their gander dander slander?

who needs variety, verity is the spice of life

if you practice illegal medicine do you put banned-aids on people?

if you pretend to be rich are you putting on million-airs?

if you want to know what it would be like to live your life through someone else, are you vicurious?

shouldn't subpar be a good thing?

my thoughts are increasingly non-planar and ill-suited to expression in linear English sentences

if you accidentally let some upsetting news slip when talking to someone, is it a schadenfreudian slip?

halloween costume idea: Elvish Elvis

feeling peachy. which is to say I have soft, fleshy, hairy exterior with a cold hard pit inside.

why'd the aspiring chef fail the culinary exam? they ran outta thyme

if you invite your new boss over for Indian food, are you trying to curry favor with curry flavor?

if you sell a landmine does it become a landyours?

a waist is a terrible thing to mind

if someone tells you a sad story about their Swedish car, is it a Saab story?

other people use screwdrivers, I have a screwchauffeur

the clothes make the man
the cloves make the garlic
the cloven hooves make the centaur

`I bought some lamb chops today.'
`How many bites of ram did you get?'

why did the managers get their suits pressed while their workers were picketing outside?
They remembered the adage `iron while the strike is hot'.

can we stop struggling to overcome adversity and start snuggling to overcome adversity

if any one cracks wise about a famous cellist's mom are they yo yo mama jokes?

UPS just emailed me to say "To take advantage of UPS My Choice features, you can upgrade your package."

"The 2015 National Content Test is being conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau to test census questionnaire content and to obtain nationwide measurements of response rates for Internet and self-response." so it's a census census?

do people who use negging believe in love at first slight?

when you use a keyboard with both hands, are you stereotyping?

Similes are like metaphors.
Metaphors are similes.

You have a container of distilled water, and a container of salt water. I take the salt water since it is the bath of least resistance.

is there a rags-to-riches porn starring Fallacio Alger?

is a floating sans font aerial arial?

New Hampshire: Live Free or die trying
Vermont: Live Free and tie dying?

if you get eaten by a shark, do you rest in Pisces

zappos should adopt zapdos as their mascot `lightning fast delivery'

when you are confused about your old college's practices, do you ask "what the alma matter with you?"

is it time to update the phantom tollbooth to the phantom ez pass

if you are feeling a little down and a little sick are you feeling turquoise?

Some people are exotic dancers. I am more of an ergodic dancer.

if I was a blacksmith, my company would be called "what have I wrought iron"

if your significant other is small, are they chibae

if a movie features nuclear war and Chthulu is it Strangelovecraftian?

stone cold steve austin should do coldstone cremery commercials

teenage Newton ninja physicist

"System update needs to update" oh jeez I hope System update update is up to date.

Imagining someone with a Boston accent saying "I left my car keys in my khakis"

most people feel some trepidation about trepanation

they says pictures are worth a thousand words but they still let you tweet them

is a small catacomb a kittycomb?

is johnny pneumatic the steam-punk prequel to johnny mnemonic?

What sort of ache does a winner wake up with? Champagne

50 shades of greyscale would be a good name for a photoblog

if you are a tailor and make a mistake but use a stitch remover to take it out, does that mean you rip what you sew?

If I tear my pants, do britches get stitches?

if you rub a cat's belly and they don't like it, do scritches get stitches?

wouldn't "heels over head" make more sense than "head over heels"? My head is usually higher than my heels.

does expecto patron summon tequila?

if google makes a smaller nook will they call it a cranny?

if you aren't fine, are you coarse?

when you make a line in tetris, are any leftover blocks tetris detritus?

I want to brew a rice wine and call it "for goodness sake" or "sake of contradiction" and the ad campaign would be like "what would you do for sake of contradiction?"

There should be a hair salon in Charlottesville called the Barber of Cville

if you make people mad by rattling stuff around, did you cause a raucous maracas fracas

From now on, I'm going to interpret the phrase "for the time being" as something being sacrificed to the "Time Being" - the unforgiving god of time. "We'll put it here...for the Time Being."

my new years resolution is 1920 x 1080

George Lucas ought to license Star Wars themed beer. There would of course be an Imperial Stout, and it could use the catch phrase "Beer will keep the local systems in line"

Thomas' New Fashioned English Muffins : now full of crooks and nannies.

which is worse, being morbidly curious, or curiously morbid?

beware of geeks bearing glyphs.

if you are taken aback by an affront, are you back where you started?

it's too true to be good.

if you steal a legal pad, does it become an illegal pad?

if a city has enough superheroes, is it super-saturated?

Has anyone ever told a cannibal "You ate what you are"?

Can you do something advertently, or only inadvertently?

Don't look a gift camera in the lens mount.

more vampires than you can shake a stake at.

orally disintegrating tablets sound like something you really do not want to put in your mouth.

my room is disheveled. I have to re-hevel it.

red is my favorite flavor.

Is there an unauthorized sequel Lord of the Flies called Fjord of the Lies?

eschew sesquipedalian lexicon.

The llama's genus and species is "Lama glama". The mind reels.

it's like falling off a bicycle - the scars won't let you forget

let's burn that bridge when we get to it, shall we?

it's no use crying about split milk under the bridge.

Denatured protein, muscle tissue, and curdled milk for breakfast. Yum.

pop rocks + soda pop = pop art, maybe?

my mommy taught me not to take cookies from strange websites.

I call shenanigans so often I have her on speed dial.

be careful to buy the correct type of pie: failure to do so might cause a meringue harangue.

If you succeed in describing an ineffable thing, have you effed it?

Brittany: my space key is mad
me: why is it mad
me: are you pushing its buttons?

If you don't play fast and loose, do you play slow and tight?

I used to be young and foolish. Now I am a fool and youngish.

everything in moderation. Except moderation.

squirrel gout cookies!

If I stop procrastinating, does that mean I am anticrastinating?

Toasting with liquor given as a Christmas gift raises your holiday spirits

give me Liberace or give me death
give me libations or give me death
give me library or give me death

I have a mind like a steel trap...that was left out in the rain and rusted to the point of being inoperable.

Life is like kicking a football. Some days you are the football. Other days you are Charlie Brown.

ALITERATION & RHYMES

being severed from the server hurts severely.

magneto is a mutinous mutant

the pitter-patter of little kitter-katters as they scitter-scatter

is it an error for a millionaire's heir to put on airs

"baby, be my bee bae"

Sitting on the settee, Seth seethed about Settlers and Set.

is it luxurious to be uxorious?

occidental ocelots oscillate accidentally

the incisive are often divisive

do people eat charred char?

are there assonant sonnets about consonants?

the wretched wench with the wrench retched

Winston wouldst whistle whilst whist.

curmudgeon with a bludgeon in high dudgeon

I feel as if I were draggled down a declivitous decline.

Skulk for skullduggery.

MATH & TEACHING

is an ellipse in the complex plane an iconic section

geometry encourages the use of dirty needles, why else are they always looking for the hypo-ten-use?

"I got jello on my math homework"
"I guess the proof was in the pudding"

teaching is like shooting rubber balls at a wall with an air cannon: you hope something sticks but what bounces back at you hurts

if your friend is taking exams to apply to grad school do you tell them they will do GRE-at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3jt5ibfRzw a fine example of de-duck-tive reasoning

if you try to see how many of your extremities can fall asleep while solving diophantine equations are you studying number theory

i'm gonna write a problem for my final about the change of the distance between sibling rodents moving in perpendicular directions
...yeah it'll be a related rats problem

if your pupil brings you an apple, are they the apple of your eye?

they call 'em pupils, but my students don't seem to see anything

variables are supposed to be indeterminate, not illegible

is an ellipse in the complex plane an iconic section?

when I assign homework to my students, I can honestly say "this hurts me more than it hurts you." Way more.

residues make me feel icky.

caffeine is a liquid which turns zombies into mathematicians.

the graph of my progress on homework is like the devil's staircase. The derivative is almost everywhere 0.
the set of time where I get work done is a Cantor set.

if you witness someone solve a related rates problem, have you committed complicit differentiation?

My analysis is funky, but I am not sure I would call it functional.

When I give presentations, I don't go off on tangents. I do go off on secants though.

While I hope my students duly note something, I feel like they note it dully instead.

please excuse my deer, aunt Sally
please excuse my dear ant, Sally
please excuse my deer, ant Sally

"this vector field is not conservative (must be liberal)"

I thought my friend just said "I took sadistical mechanics"

"The proof? You can't handle the proof!"

let's talk about sets, baby

don't go chasing diagrams, stick to those commutative diagrams that you're used to

"It's so rigorous it has rigor mortis"

masochism? more like mathochism.

A back seat deriver : someone who gives undesired advice on how to go about proving a mathematical result.

Algebraists are manipulative.

you make me feel like a natural logarithm.

You know how students sometimes say the answer to some question which clearly should be positive (like the area of a shape) is negative? I usually write "This is a negative number, which is a bad sign."

proctoring exams makes me feel testy.

teachers try to drive their students to think.
students try to drive their teachers to drink.

The mathematicians were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of Banach spaces danced in their wee little heads

People are like Cauchy sequences in a complete space; they have limits.

The Banach-Tarski paradox is making a mountain out of a molehill.

all the singularities/
all the singularities/
if you liked it you shoulda put a ring on it
if you liked it you shoulda put a ring on it

if you forget your logical connectives, errands become errors

putting the rue in rubric

math grad school: where everything is made up and the points don't matter

"Look upon my homework, ye mighty, and despair"

mathematicians always talk about open problems, for once I'd love to hear about a clopen problem

I want to teach Calc II so I can offhandedly refer to a complicated sigma notion as a sum of a bitch

if you don't follow any algorithm to solve a problem, are you using a georgebushithm?

http://www.amazon.com/Discrete-Mathematics-Duc…/…/1466504994
Here's a book I'd like to quack open.
Teach your students about canard-ality.

when life gives you lemmas, make theorems.

Late to bed and early to rise makes math majors get circles under their eyes?

I can say I decimated my homework if I did 10% of problems, right?

you think you're transcendental but you are just irrational

if you are good at calculus do you integreat

if you are really good at linear algebra
are you a domin-matrix

MUSIC

what's lou bega's favorite snake?  mamba #5

if you cut your hand while cooking and get herbs in the wound
...does thyme keep on slipping slipping slipping into the suture

linkin park sells out, becomes linkedin park

someone should start a band called 'post rock ergo propter rock'

if the lead singer from limp bizket is worried about getting dehydrated while performing, does fred durst dread thirst?

c'mon baby fight my liar

wake me up inside
when september ends

life in the breakdown lane

The Blueman group and Outback steakhouse should make a Blueman Onion

if you ship cds from the 90s/00s are you a Green Day packer

If listening to `Living on a Prayer' puts you in a good mood, does it make you Bon Jovial?

Subway should have a one day greek food special and use David Bowie's song "we could be gyros, just for one day"

"I wish you were here."
"Pink Floyd, Incubus, or Avril Lavigne?"

terrible mash up ideas:
darude/metallica: enter the sandstorm
enya/blind melon: day with no rain
katrina & the waves/smashmouth/cream: walking on the sunshine of your love
yes/cake/blues traveler: the long distance run around
coldplay/ricky martin: viva la vida loca
(also acceptable: iron butterfly/ricky martin: in-a-gadda-de-vida-loca)

baby we were born to pun

my anaconda don't want none unless you got puns, hun

VIDEO GAMES

If I make a first-person shooter I'd call it Supererogation cuz it will go above and beyond Call of Duty

l'appel de vide(o games)

they should make a vr racing game
called VRoom

if a gravelord tries to disguise itself as a bonewheel skeleton, does that make it in cog nito

is your shoe size
...your sole caliber

are people that like to play as D.Va
...D.Viants

ode to joycon

ARMS ASMR

bad mash ups: bad dragon ball z

bad mash-ups: a GoT WoL textmod called Westeros of Loathing

if you knock someone down with an ump in pubg it should shout "yer out"

i'm mad they haven't added a baseball bat to pubg, they could call it the plunkbat

when nintendo gets into the gambling in games: rowlet roulette

the vive people should make a horror vr game called the htc lovecraft

if you name a horse after epona is it eponymous

game pitch: a randomly generated loot-n-beat-em-up set in lousiana where you play a thief who hits people with a rod, titled baton rogue

if you really love grand strategy games do you have EU-IV-ia

if you are sorry that someone has to play a game on playstation or xbox because of the resolution and framerate do you give them your consolations

if you are playing WoW early in the morning do you drink MMOsas

if someone interrupts your VR gaming experience do you say "don't harsh my vive, bro"?

someone needs to write a stardew valley guide called ``stardews and don'ts''

if you spin around while brushing then don't use mouthwash, is it a 360 no scope

Chthonic the hedgehog.

resident evil within
left 4 dead by daylight

my low % speedrun of life isn't going so hot, but i might still p.b.

I like that the ``we are all in a computer simulation'' idea could be used to explain away weird subatomic particle behavior as bugs in the physics engine.

sonic went on a hunger strike, but no one noticed because he always goes fast

That game came out on Wii, more like ennui amirite

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