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2022-12-04 Science & Technology

Scientists say listeners who hear groan-inducing puns are actually GRATEFUL for the gags

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Did they just give Deacon a questionnaire to fill or did they make him wear an electrode cap and freeze frame his engrams? 😁

Posted by Dron66046 2022-12-04 04:03|| 2022-12-04 04:03|| Front Page Top

#2 See? My dad and I are right mom!

Posted by DarthVader 2022-12-04 10:14|| 2022-12-04 10:14|| Front Page Top

#3 My parents flogged that "play them off each other" at an early age. Good lesson in life.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-12-04 10:21|| 2022-12-04 10:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Flogged that out of me.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-12-04 10:24|| 2022-12-04 10:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Dron66046 I got a new pet termite and named him Clint Eatswood.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-12-04 13:40|| 2022-12-04 13:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Groan... 🙃

Posted by Dron66046 2022-12-04 13:41|| 2022-12-04 13:41|| Front Page Top

#7 I once accidently drank a bottle of invisible ink. I went to the hospital and was waiting to be seen.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-12-04 13:47|| 2022-12-04 13:47|| Front Page Top

#8 "Release the Deacon!"

Posted by SteveS 2022-12-04 13:57|| 2022-12-04 13:57|| Front Page Top

#9 /\ He must return to his.... bench.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-04 13:57|| 2022-12-04 13:57|| Front Page Top

#10 Ha ha ha... now that was ...ha ha ha ha!

Posted by Dron66046 2022-12-04 13:58|| 2022-12-04 13:58|| Front Page Top

#11 I have a few jokes about unemployed people, but none of them work

Posted by DarthVader 2022-12-04 14:25|| 2022-12-04 14:25|| Front Page Top

#12 Other day daughter opened with, "What is a fish's favorite candy - Reese's Pisces."

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-12-04 14:45|| 2022-12-04 14:45|| Front Page Top

#13 Groan.... What the hell did I do to deserve all this punishment?

Posted by CrazyFool 2022-12-04 17:02|| 2022-12-04 17:02|| Front Page Top

#14 "I have a split personality," said Tom, being frank.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-12-04 17:10|| 2022-12-04 17:10|| Front Page Top

#15 /hey now!....

Posted by Frank G 2022-12-04 17:12|| 2022-12-04 17:12|| Front Page Top

#16 Santa's elves listen to wrap "music".

Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-12-04 17:31|| 2022-12-04 17:31|| Front Page Top

#17 Santa's elves listen to wrap "music". I asked the librarian if she had a book on Pavlov's dog and Schrodinger's cat. She said it rings a bell but she's not sure if it was there or not.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-12-04 17:35|| 2022-12-04 17:35|| Front Page Top

#18 The blind carpenter picked up his hammer and saw.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-12-04 17:54|| 2022-12-04 17:54|| Front Page Top

#19 A book on proper punctuation: The Panda Eats, Shoots & Leaves

Posted by magpie 2022-12-04 18:38|| 2022-12-04 18:38|| Front Page Top

#20 “I see,” said the blind carpenter, as he picked up his hammer and saw.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-12-04 19:45|| 2022-12-04 19:45|| Front Page Top

#21 I lost my job at the bank on my very first day. A woman asked me to check her balance, so I pushed her over

Posted by DarthVader 2022-12-04 20:58|| 2022-12-04 20:58|| Front Page Top

#22 [more groans from the back row]

Posted by Dron66046 2022-12-04 23:15|| 2022-12-04 23:15|| Front Page Top

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