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Monday, December 27. 2010

Best pun of this Christmastime

From a BD daughter, re Christmas: "It's A Mall and the Night Visitors."


She likes Macy's in NYC at Christmastime. Who doesn't? (You know Amahl, right? I've seen it twice, which is enough.)

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I like that!
#1 D on 2010-12-27 11:24 (Reply)
I remember Amahl and the Night Visitors being staged at my elementary school. Since one pun deserves another - good or not- here goes another one. [Which reminds me of the neighbors who went on an cruise ship tour of Alaska. "Juneau where we've been? Alaska 'nother one."]

A woman has identical twin boys, and gives them up for adoption.

One of them goes to a family in Egypt and is named Amahl.

The other goes to a family in Spain, who name him Juan. Years later, Juan sends a picture of himself to his birth mother.

Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband that she wished she also had a picture of Amahl.

Her husband responds, "They’re twins. If you've seen Juan, you've seen Amahl."
#2 Gringo on 2010-12-27 11:37 (Reply)
Ah, Macy's, I worked there nights during Christmas break helping restock the shelves. My fondest memory is of dumping a box of loose super balls into the trash chute and listening to them bounce all the way down. And all the way back up ;)
#3 chuck on 2010-12-27 12:00 (Reply)

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