Re: Puns

From: Jon Elson <jmelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:17:51 -0600

Tim Williams wrote:

What do you call a ship built of salt?
Saline ship.

(Nevermind the impracticability of a brittle, water-soluble material sailing
oceans ;o)

In WW-II they made some ships (really barges, I think) out of ICE!
Supposedly there's one still on the bottom of lake Michigan, or therabouts,
that is still frozen. They used sawdust and straw for insulation.

Jon

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