Puns come in varying sizes, shapes and forms, and I hasten to admit that the first ones I ever heard and then repeated were unquestionably bad: (1) What kind of shoes are made from banana skins? Slippers. (2) What’s black and white and red all over? A newspaper. (3) When is a door not a door? When it’s ajar. (4) Did you ever see a salad dressing, a lobster bowl, a butcher shop, or a horse Memories and Mutterings fly?
These tidbits of jocularity, of course, led to knock-knock jokes: Who’s there? Orange. Orange who? Orange you glad you asked. Pencil. Pencil who? Pencil fall down without suspenders. Ray Who? Racing....