It’s Friday, so it’s time for a bit of humor. Instead of tapping the Archer Treasury of Bad Puns, today we’ll access an outside source. Nick Gill offered up a pun of his own choosing, so I’ll share it with you. We’ll call it
Davey and the Greenhouse
Davey lived in his parents’ basement. His skin was a pale white, for he rarely saw the light of day. About his only forays into the real world were trips to the local video store (always at night), to get new installments of his fascination: Japanese animation.
That’s right… Davey was obsessed with anime. When he wasn’t watching it, he was trying to create it himself. Hour after hour, day after day, Davey was consumed with the flashing colors, big-eyed characters and exaggerated speech bubbles.
Davey’s dad was a gardener. He had a greenhouse just outside their back door, where he grew all kinds of plants. His specialty were ferns, which filled almost every corner of the greenhouse. Davey’s mom mainly sat around and worried about her two obsessed men.
One day, Davey discovered that his supply of frozen pizzas had run out, and mom hadn’t dropped off any lunch for him. He would be forced to go out and find his own food. Not being used to walking around in daylight, he got a bit confused and walked into his dad’s greenhouse. Once inside, Davey stared in wonder at the plants around him. He began looking, then touching, then actually tending to the growing plants.
When Davey’s mother returned from the grocery store, she was shocked to find the basement empty. Looking around, she found Davey in the greenhouse, working with the ferns.
“Davey!” she cried “What in the world has gotten into you? Why aren’t you watching your Japanimation?”
“Mom,” Davey explained…
“With fronds like these, who needs anime?”
A few years ago, for a sermon, I came up with a list of hymns for the egotist. Here are some of the ones I thought of:
