Loose Parts by Dave Blazek for August 30, 2020

They’re pterrible spellers.

A joke I’ve never seen before, and very clever. Great work, Dave!

Why are the aardvarks always first in line…?

In all fairness, I think silent letters should either be sounded out, or deleted from the word. E.g.: “Doubt” would become either “Dout” or “Dow-bit”.

Are the unicorns back there, too?

Silently…

We’re missing the rats and racoons.

the animals loaded ptwo by ptwo…..

They crossed the line….

Did Richard Strauss waltz down the Straße?

I taught reading to adults for a couple of years. I had a guy from Iraq for about 6 months. I remembered when I first started teaching him, I would ask him did he know the meaning of the word. He would usually say yes, and I would accept that he did. After a while, I began to realize he just thought he knew the meanings. I specifically remember the word “Cup”. I asked if he knew what a cup was, and to give me some examples. He said, “It has many meanings. Like someone rob you, you call cup. Also people put cup on their heads.” From then on, I made him use the word in a sentence.

Penguins walked all the way from the antarctic to the Middle East so they could get on Noah’s Ark.

Before I remembered pterodactyl starts with a P, it was funnier. Thinking for a moment it started with a T, the joke was that they ate all the ones in front of them. That was pretty funny, especially since they appear so in line and innocent.

It’s the silent P, Pnoah!

They are in the Ps because they are a pair of dactyls.

Why can’t you hear a pterodactyl using the restroom? Because the “P” is silent.

Ha! I couldn’t remember the name for the Pterodactyl and for some reason my brain went to Tyrannosaurus even though I knew that was wrong. I thought the joke here was that the T-rex had eaten everything between “P” and “T” to advance in line :-)

I have no desire to eat a platypus.

Gee, I thought it was because the were royalty. All hail Rex

Ptop of the morning to you.

OK, lemme see your passport.

Ptera-Don and ptera-Donna

Those are rattlesnakes disguised as pythons!

Why are there no rats between the pteros and the snakes?

Did they come on separately, via the ratlines?

So Noah used the English names for the animals (names which didn’t exist, yet)?