Dual Meanings

--The bandage was wound around the wound.
--The farm was used to produce produce.
--The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
--We must polish the Polish furniture.
--He could lead if he would get the lead out.
--The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
--Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
--A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
--When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
--I did not object to the object.
--The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
--There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
--They were too close to the door to close it.
--The buck does funny things when the does are present.
--A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
--To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
--The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
--After a number of injections my jaw got number.
--Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
--I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
--How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

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In My Day.....

In my day, we couldn't afford shoes, so we went barefoot. In winter, we had to wrap our feet with barbed wire for traction.

In my day, we didn't have rocks. We had to go down to the creek and wash our clothes by beating them with our heads.

In my day, we didn't have hand-held calculators. We had to do addition on our fingers. To subtract, we had to have some fingers amputated.

In my day, we didn't have water. We had to smash together our own hydrogen and oxygen atoms.

Kids today think the world revolves around them. In my day, the sun revolved around the world, and the world was perched on the back of a giant tortoise.

Back in my day, they hadn't invented electricity. We had to watch television by candlelight.

In my day, we didn't have fancy health-food restaurants. Every day we ate lots of easily recognizable animal parts, along with potatoes