Joke of the week [465 = year 9, #49] "Geddit?": (36), idiom 10 (June 6, 2011 - June 12, 2011)  

Q: What do you call a herd of cows that can't stop giggling?
A: Laughing stock.*     *pun on the literal versus the idiomatic meaning of "laughing stock"
       www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/laughing+stock.html   &  http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/laughing-stock.html 
cf: 21, 428, 429, 430, 431, 432, 433, 434, 435, 436, 437, 438, 439, 443, 444, 445, 446, 447, 448, 449, 450, 451, 452, 453, 454, 455, 456, 457, 458, etc., etc.

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