word play

(three jokes I should’ve come up with… and would have given infinite time and a monkey (or infinite monkeys and a room of writing implements))

The Simpsons: “Papa Don’t Leech”

Lisa: That’ll be $30.
Mayor Quimby: For three boxes?!
Lisa: The money helps us serve the community, [lists on fingers] plant trees, pick up litter, cut up milk bones for old dogs…
Mayor Quimby: It was a rhetorical question!
Lisa: And I used rhetoric in my answer!

Dinosaur Comics: March 30, 2009

T-Rex: This is amazing! I had NO IDEA fear was localized to a single location. This opens up whole new avenues in the field of toughening up the very scareable: just open up their brain and remove their amygdala, and it’s an instant fearectomy! …
Utahraptor: That’s like solving a problem of high blood pressure by removing the heart, T-Rex!
T-Rex: Only analogously!

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