BAD PUNS XLIII

INDIAN CORN

One final visit to the Bad Pun department. Insert the name of a native American tribe into each blank to complete a bad pun.

Ex: After 50 years of weeding vegetables, I hope I _______ another row of beans in my life. 

Ans: NAVAJO (never hoe)

 

1. Did you see the Three Stooges episode where Larry, Curly, and _______newspapers in the street?

 

2. George gets out of prison today, and this time I _______ goes straight.

 

3. The chess player knew he was about to have a piece captured, but that wasn't the lowly _______ expected to lose.

 

4. Perry Mason wonders --- what will his secretary _______ to the trial. 

5. After it had been mended one to many times, the farmer would no longer wear such _______ pair of overalls.

6. Shakespeare's wife Hathaway was so bashful that we might refer to her as _______.

7. The over-awed visitor bowed to the savant. "_______," he said, "thou art all-wise."

8. The detective declared the stains on the rocking _______ to solving the crime.

Answers:

 

1. MOHAWK (Moe hawk)

2. HOPI (hope  he)

3. PAWNEE (pawn he)

4. DELAWARE (Della wear)

5. APACHE (a patchy)

6. CHEYENNE (shy Anne)

7. OSAGE (Oh, sage) 

8. CHEROKEE (chair a key)

                                                                                

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Will Shortz