Welcome to Punday Monday!

If you’re new here, pull up a stool, order a pun-t, and get to know some of the regulars! I’m your puntender, @improv.
You can jump in any time, and if you aren’t sure how to make a pun, here’s a handy dandy guide:
https://steemit.com/contest/@improv/puns-and-prizes-learn-to-pun-easy-fun-anybody-can-be-a-hit-at-parties

If you’re an oldtimer, welcome back! Get to know some of the whippersnappers, here, we have a craft brew for you, idiomatic with hints of philosophy. Kind of cliche, but very smooth. On the house:
(Be careful when mopping your brow. If you wear your heart on your sleeve, your face will turn read.)

And since you’re an oldtimer, you might be interested in the results of our first annual best pun contest:
https://steemit.com/contest/@freewritehouse/punday-monday-year-one-day-awards-ceremony

If you’re an any-timer, old or whipper, make sure you visit @freewritehouse! There you can meet fellow lovers of goofiness and find even more contests every week! We’re also now featured in the @steembasicincome contest round-up! Find more opportunities to win SBI there!

Hang on to your punderwear...

There’s no business like show business, so let’s show you the business we’re dealing with today!

Here’s last week’s post, and all the puns that are eligible to win this week are in the comments!
https://steemit.com/contest/@improv/punday-monday-win-sbi-join-this-easy-contest-with-your-original-pun-on-this-week-s-topic-this-is-the-59th-week-that-we-ve-held

Rookie of the Week!

Goes to @dollarsandsense! Glad you got here as quickly as you could. Hope you’ll stay for the long haul!

Pocket Choice awards

Every Friday, I put up a post to solicit audience favorites! They can vote on their favorites by sending POCKET to whomever they want to win. This week’s post is here:
https://steemit.com/pocket/@improv/pocket-friday-is-for-voting-on-your-favorite-pun-from-punday-monday-links-to-help-in-the-post

@tcpolymath won @paul.atreides’ heart AND POCKET! He wins! New member of the winner’s circle. As I’m sure you all remember, we’re coming up on the big annual POCKET Choice awards ceremony. Just 6 more opportunities to be inducted! So, go find the biggest pocket holders, and advocate for your pun to win! That post goes up on Fridays

If YOU want to learn about POCKET, so you can participate in voting for your favorites, go ahead and check out this link
https://steemit.com/pocket/@improv/pocket-friday-for-punday-monday-here-s-a-way-to-use-your-pocket-and-get-a-laugh
You can also check out more info by @biophil, the creator of POCKET, and he’ll teach you. Check out his posts!

The folks in the POCKET Choice winner's circle are @tcpolymath, @miniature-tiger, @lilygolightly, @chrisroberts, @stinawog, @f3nix, @doctorcrypto, @heroic15397, @littlescribe, @diebitch, @acolucky, @ablaze, and @paul.atreides.

and our grand prize...

The prize for best pun

Best pun of the entire week

Winner of our weekly SBI share giveaway

Best Overall Pun

DRUMROLL, PLEASE

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@littlescribe for not only finding a bunch of puns, but also interacting punnily with others’ punny puns! It’s good to have you back.

This week, I especially want to praise you all for such a cornucopia of puns. I was thrilled to pieces to see all this fun and funny! If you haven’t checked out the pun conversations that have been written on that post, go now! It’s never past payout for a laugh attack. I’d name you all, but you’ll go there and see anyways. GOOD STUFF.

And what prizes do they win, you ask?

Why, as usual, all the punsters got full strength upvotes on their submissions. (WORTH $0.02! So much value!)

Our category winners will each get to choose a post (of their own or someone else's) and I will give that post a fully powered upvote and a @tipu tip!

And the big, exciting prize of 1 SBI will go to @littlescribe!

This week's pun topic is...

Allergy

I chose it because @stinawog just noticed that I got a red blotch on my face. Who knows why, but maybe I touched a cat and then my face, and, while I’m not very allergic, sometimes these things just happen. But also maybe I’m just filled with pestilence. Let’s pun about it!

As in,
You were allergic to fire? How did you escape it?
I knew what to do. There’s been a drill.

BADA-BING! You been punned. Because been a drill...Benadryl! There's Benadryl to solve the problem with an allergy, and there's been a drill to teach you how to escape a building on fire...

You get it.

Perfect,

I'm so good at puns....

If you've never punned before, it might seem like magic! You can do it, too! Learn how in My Free How-To Guide on Punning!

And who do I nominate to also participate in @comedyopenmic, you ask? Why none other than @eaglespirit and @haphazard-hstead!

@freedomshift offered to sponsor a minimum of 1 SBI award for contests that qualified for a #ccc post and I accept. He's promoting the #ccc:
You can learn more about the Curation Circle Creed in this post : The Honor Code - the Creed (Conditions and Limits Inside)

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