I can't find the pun book right now, so I Googled instead. >_> Here's one I thought was amusing: Once, when Lincoln’s friend and fellow circuit rider, Ward Lamon, tore his pants at the seat just before entering court, several lawyers started a subscription paper and passed it around the courtroom to raise the money for a new pair of pants. When the paper got to Lincoln, he wrote, “I can contribute nothing to the end in view.”
Oh yeah, and one time he and a friend saw a fancily dressed woman wearing a huge feathered hat crossing the street before slipping in a puddle. Lincoln: "Reminds me of a duck." Friend: "Eh, why?" Lincoln: "Feathers on her head and down on her behind."
It took me a moment before I figured out that he was also referring to the downy feathers on birds. XD
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Date: 2008-05-06 02:14 am (UTC)I can't find the pun book right now, so I Googled instead. >_> Here's one I thought was amusing:
Once, when Lincoln’s friend and fellow circuit rider, Ward Lamon, tore his pants at the seat just before entering court, several lawyers started a subscription paper and passed it around the courtroom to raise the money for a new pair of pants. When the paper got to Lincoln, he wrote, “I can contribute nothing to the end in view.”
Oh yeah, and one time he and a friend saw a fancily dressed woman wearing a huge feathered hat crossing the street before slipping in a puddle.
Lincoln: "Reminds me of a duck."
Friend: "Eh, why?"
Lincoln: "Feathers on her head and down on her behind."
It took me a moment before I figured out that he was also referring to the downy feathers on birds. XD