Punday Monday 35! Come have fun and pun with a ton of dun nuns! (One part of that sentence is false. Guess which!)
Happy punday, all!
Last week's PUNtries were sPUN here:
(the picture is clickable! But here's the link, just so no one is confused...
If you're not sure how to properly pun, here's the how-to :
https://steemit.com/contest/@improv/puns-and-prizes-learn-to-pun-easy-fun-anybody-can-be-a-hit-at-parties
Be a cool PUNk, read that junk!
Last week's POCKET choice award winner was... a TIE!
But @haphazard-hstead's send didn't work for some reason. (That syntax is tough!)
So the one and only winner is @acolucky!
https://steemit.com/pocket/@improv/valentine-s-day-s-punday-pocket-voting-post-visit-this-post-if-you-own-pocket-or-if-you-like-puns
...! Congrats! A warm welcome back to the fold (ed clothing... this is a laundry basket of humor)!
The folks in the POCKET Choice winner's circle are @miniature-tiger, @lilygolightly, @chrisroberts, @stinawog, @doctorcrypto, @heroic15397, @littlescribe, @diebitch, @acolucky and @paul.atreides.
On to the other best puns categories as chosen by me winners!
Happy Valentine's Day, all! I hope you had an especially delightful time. We had cookies.
There was no video winner this week, unfortunately, but I'm going to award the best video category to a story that was so vivid and bizarre, it deserves its own category...
@amos-robinson! for...well, you should see it yourself. It is truly a thing of beauty.
And our best overall pun goes to @grannycooks! What a wonderfully bizarre weaving of a tale. I'm glad you and @amos-robinson belong to the mutual admiration society!
Yay!
The winner winners win an upvote from me on a post of their choice along with a @tipu tip! Include your link with the next pun you post, winners!
This week!
Black History month is almost over! I think it's time to revisit this! I have faith! You've all spent the whole month steeped in Black History, and now know more than when you began! You did a great job the first time, and I'm eager to learn more! YOU CAN DO IT! The best puns will be
- Puns
- Funny
- Teaching us something
- Anti-racist
and - Long-winded (just kidding, but also not really kidding. I do love long-winded puns, but I also like short clever ones. Anyways. Take it for what it's worth.)
Here's mine!
Hey UPS,
Ask not "What can Brown do for you?", but rather "What can you do for Brown?"
I have faith that you will do better!
Links welcome. Learning through humor is awesome! I recognize it's a challenge, and you will all be rewarded for your effort with upvotes worth tens of cents!
This month we ran out of green tea at the cafe. But that's OK because it was black history month. So we served only a black tea dinner. Everyone who arrived had on gowns and tuxes just for the occasion.
I once owned a cow with a missing eye. That cow birthed a calf. The calf was half white and half black. Not that I cared. It was the content of its character that mattered. In an interesting twist, the calf, like the cow, was missing an eye. To this day we still MLK Jr.
I wish you would give me a word for punning. No seriously, can I get award for punning?
And why was everyone staring at the cannibal on the speed track? Oh yeah, he finished the race sixth(racist)
The cannibal ate the racist? Well. I'll bet the racist did not see that coming.
He most certainly did not!
Did you know that in 1980 – just between the end of his acting career and becoming the fortieth president of the United States Of America – Ronald Reagan produced an album of songs by Howling James Huckabee. James Huckabee had a voice like liquid gold being poured down a rooster's neck, but had only released one album about twenty years before, in 1964. Ronald Reagan couldn't get enough of old Jim's crooning, and just had to have more.
Unfortunately, old Jim had already passed on by the time Ronald discovered him. "Perhaps I can exhume his body and clone him," pondered Ronald. Nancy just rolled her eyes and said "no". He knew better than to argue with Nancy.
But Ronald would not be discouraged. He brought in a new singer, who he dubbed James Huckabee II. James Huckabee II happened to be a chicken farmer by day. Now, Ronald was a city boy for the most part – he had starred in a few westerns, but never really been to the west. So when James Huckabee II – New Jim for short – suggested recording in the chicken coop behind his house, Ronald was ecstatic.
"You don't know chickens until you meet them, Nance," he said over dinner, after a long day recording. "Why, this one crow. You should see his plumage. Not a stray feather on the fellow. And so commanding – regal. If a crow told you to tear down a wall, you would tear down that wall, pronto."
Yes, I suppose Ronald rather liked New Jim's crow.
Explanation: after the civil rights movement, the Jim Crow "separate but equal" laws were deemed unconstitutional. This made a lot of people happy, but it made some people quite angry. Ronald Reagan may have been one of the angry ones, as about eighteen years after Jim Crow was abolished, he introduced the war on drugs, a form of systematic disenfranchisement of minority groups that continues to this day.
An excellent lesson, though it makes it hard to sympathize with the protagonist.
I'll also point out that you can't get much further West than Hollywood, though you seem to mean rural west, not just West. :P
Ah, that is where you are in fact wrong, Hollywood is not west of anywhere. Hollywood is just a sound stage filmed by Alfred Hitchcock and installed on Moon Base 1.
Twist!
The incentive alone is why I come here.
Me too! The incentive alone has helped keep me back in the black.
In Martin Luther King's fight against segregation it was a political game of two halfs. Those who halved and those who did not ha(l)ve.
James Brown arrives at the gates of heaven, and St Peter greets him, and says "Get down, Get down"
James replies: "Boogie Boogie.. But that aint my song, that was Kool and the Gang"
Just then an american football hits Mr Brown in that back of the head...
"I tried to warn you!" says St Peter rolling around laughing with Nelson Mandela who was still polishing his throwing skills..
Bob Marley, a black legend, musical genius and early Steemit advocate with his band the Whalers...
When taking the bus, sometimes Rosa drives, and sometimes Rosa Parks.
But mostly she stands up...for the rights of the oppressed everywhere!
Yes. On a side note, I am now aware of pocket, but I can't seem to figure out what I need to do. What am I missing?
Well insofar as you won one of the categories this week, you can post a link here, and I will upvote it and send it a little change as your prize.
As far as the pocket itself, well, you now own a single pocket. It's not worth a LOT, but it is a cryptocurrency based on the steemit blockchain. Here's all about it from the idea-comer-up-with-er: https://steemit.com/pocket/@biophil/pocket-announcement
You can try to get more...You might notice that @biophil is generous enough to share! https://steemit.com/pocket/@biophil/the-future-of-pocket
Alright. Thanks.
https://steemit.com/art/@acolucky/acolucky-s-advice-to-artists-3
i love your post. i wait for next post carry @bijoy123