{"id":3589,"date":"2007-06-15T15:21:30","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T20:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theanchoressonline.com\/2007\/06\/15\/shameful-puns-via-fausta\/"},"modified":"2017-03-17T18:46:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T18:46:44","slug":"shameful-puns-via-fausta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/2007\/06\/15\/shameful-puns-via-fausta\/","title":{"rendered":"Shameful puns via Fausta"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Fausta, who is <a href=\"http:\/\/faustasblog.com\/2007\/06\/in-time-for-fathers-day-tomorrows.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">writing and podcasting gangbusters<\/a> over at her site, sent these puns.  Shame on her.  And on me for enjoying them so much!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.<\/p>\n<p>Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He\u2019s all right now.<\/p>\n<p>The roundest knight at King Arthur\u2019s round table was Sir Cumference.<\/p>\n<p>The butcher backed up into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his Work.<\/p>\n<p>To write with a broken pencil is pointless.<\/p>\n<p>When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate.<\/p>\n<p>The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.<\/p>\n<p>A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.<\/p>\n<p>A thief fell and broke his leg in wet cement. He became a hardened criminal.<\/p>\n<p>Thieves who steal corn from a garden could be charged with stalking.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll never run out of math teachers because they always multiply.<\/p>\n<p>When the smog lifts in Los Angeles, U.C.L.A.<\/p>\n<p>The math professor went crazy with the blackboard. He did a number on it.<\/p>\n<p>The professor discovered that her theory of earthquakes was on shaky ground.<\/p>\n<p>The dead batteries were given out free of charge.<\/p>\n<p> If you take a laptop computer for a run you could jog your memory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks, Fausta<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fausta, who is writing and podcasting gangbusters over at her site, sent these puns. Shame on her. And on me for enjoying them so much! I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me. Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting a rest. 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