Pini Punster comes from a long line of Punsters. Everyone on his father’s side of the family are Punsters. But no one in Pini’s family is as much a punster as Pini is.

A pun is a kind of joke that often makes people groan. Puns make fun of two words that sound the same but have different meanings. A person that tells a lot of puns is called a punster--Pini says that being a Punster runs in his family.

Pini is constantly telling puns and it’s driving his family crazy. Dad purchases a big jar and labels it “Pini’s Pun Jar.” He explains that from now on, Pini must pay the Pun Jar one cent for each pun he makes.

Pini says, “I see this is going to cost me a pretty penny. I guess it would be wrong to say that this new rule makes no cents.”

Pini drops two pennies into the jar and scurries off to his room to write down some new puns.

Here are some of Pini’s puns. You may get some of them now. Others you will get when you’re all groan.

• My parrot likes to call me names.
  But toucan play that game.
   
• A man had to have his left side cut off.
  He’s all right now.
   
• Stairs are always up to something.
   
• Why can’t the bike stand up?
  It’s two-tired.
   
• Trying to use a broken pencil is pointless.
   
• Jim was made backwards.
  His feet smell and his nose runs.
   
• I’m very good at sleeping.
  I can do it with my eyes closed.
   
• I wanted to get a new brain.
  But I changed my mind.
   
• Time flies like an arrow.
  Fruit flies like a banana.