English Is a Funny Language - More Proof

Engineering & Science Humor - RF CafeThese engineering and science tech-centric jokes, song parodies, anecdotes and assorted humor have been collected from friends and websites across the Internet. I check back occasionally for new fodder, but it seems all the old content is reappearing all over (like this is). The humor is light-hearted and clean and sometimes slightly assaultive to the easily-offended, so you are forewarned. It is all workplace-safe.

Humor #1, #2, #3

  • The bandage was wound around the wound.
  • The farm was used to produce produce.
  • The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
  • We must polish the Polish furniture.
  • He could lead if he would get the lead out.
  • The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
  • Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
  • A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
  • When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
  • I did not object to the object.
  • The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
  • There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
  • They were too close to the door to close it.
  • The buck does funny things when the does are present.
  • A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
  • To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
  • The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
  • After a number of injections my jaw got number.
  • Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
  • I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
  • How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
  • Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you comb through annals of history but not a single annal?
  • If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
  • If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
  • How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike?
  • Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent?
  • Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown?
  • Met a sung hero or experienced requited love?
  • Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable?
  • And where are all those people who ARE spring chickens or who would ACTUALLY hurt a fly?
  • English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race at all).

...thanks to Steve for this entry, too.