The So Bad It’s Kinda Funny Mahatma Gandhi Joke
Q: Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath.
This made him what?
A: A super callused fragile mystic plagued with halitosis.1
The Most Famous Punning Headline
The Back Page of the February 9, 2000 issue of “The Sun”2 featured this headline over the story about the Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club, a First Division football club nicknamed Caley Thistle, defeating the heavily favored Celtic Football Club in the Scottish Cup match at Celtic Park:
“SUPER CALEY GO BALLISTIC CELTIC ARE ATROCIOUS”
Footnotes
- While many of the web sites featuring this joke provide, for the edification of their visitors, the explanation of this pun, I’m going to take the risk of assuming that Heck Of A Guy readers will figure it out on their own↩
- The Sun, a daily newspaper published in the United Kingdom, has the highest circulation of any daily English-language newspaper in the world.↩
