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Hi, Ace -- That looks like a pretty bad pun in English! 🙂
The usual expression is "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." The joke is that the word "led" is the past tense of the verb "to lead," and the noun "lead" (meaning the gray stuff inside a pencil) is pronounced like "led." Does that make sense?
I don't know the origin of this, but thanks for the chuckle!
This seems like the nearest to a thread of puns.
Q: What is the difference between a rich girl and a poor girl?
A: A rich girl has a canopy over her bed and an poor girl has a can o' pee under hers.
Obviously, this riddle has less revelence today than when a distinction between rich and poor was where the rich had an indoor toilet and the poor had an outhouse.
More puns?
Emmett Redd
This isn't really in the pun category but the preceding parallelisms make me think of the following spoonerisms:
• Excuse me, usher. Can you sew me a new sheet?
• Let us propose a toast to our queer old Dean!
• Yamn Dankees!¹
¹This was one that I had coined in need for the name of a band that never seemed to materialize.
Martha Barnette
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