Jest for pun!

Unless you live in a remote part of the world, you're bound to notice signs, message boards, bill posters, newspaper headlines and advertisements.

Some of these headlines and phrases contain puns, which are play on words.   For example, the words aisle, isle and I'll. Same sound but three different meaning.  Aisle reminds me of the famous joke of the bride-to-be who, upon walking down the aisle, promptly said, 'Aisle altar hymn'.

Words, puns and headlines, either in phrases or short snappy slogans, can be used in your competition tiebreakers to win holidays,
cars and exciting prizes, as well as reaping rewards as successful business slogans too.

Want to win yourself a computer, then how about?

I buy computers from X store because... customers 'enter', 'save' and 'return'!

For a computer shop, your business slogan may be... 'Enter, save and return a-gain and a-gain'.  Or quite simply, 'Enter, save and return!'

I've noticed some really interesting shop names when around town, such as, 'Million-hairs'  and, 'Curl up and dye!'

A magazine gardening feature on sowing seeds, hoe-ing weeds and planting trees, inspired me to come up with, 'hoe, sow good, offering tree-mendous value at every branch!'

Fancy a cup of coffee?  It's not a 'mugs gain' when you use play on words: Coffee every Thirst-day morning!

You'll find the 'blends justify the beans' when you're awarded a 'sip-loma' for your slogans!

I entered a competition to win a tool cabinet at a DIY store, and noticed that the shelves in-store were packed with goods.  The store produced leaflets showing its customers how to tackle simple repair jobs and I thought that's a good idea, it inspires self confidence. 
I decided to use self confidence as a starting point for my slogan, and playing around with words came up with the phrase,
'shelf-confidence'.

My final tiebreaker of, 'I buy from store because... it's pack-ed with shelf-confidence!' scooped me a very useful prize of a professional
DIY tool cabinet.

I began to compile a notebook of useful puns and phrases and even on holiday lazing round the pool, I'd ask family and friends for ideas.  How many phrases can you think of do with animals?  It's surprising what you can come up - gnu dimension in, no point lion to you, fun and gir-affter, a-mouse-ment arcade.  Even non-animal puns came up -  wasp a way to go, bee-hive yourself.   

Whilst many compers like to complete their tiebreakers in the maximum words allowed, for instance, twelve words, I prefer to make mine short and snappy.  For example, 'gold-en opera-tune-ity' scooped a £2,000 music centre in a golden oldies music contest.  And all for two words!

This simple method developed and 4,000 puns and many months later, Pun-ch Lines! was born.

Here for you as a taster, are two ideas from each of the 43 categories in  Pun-ch Lines!

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