So I was doing a little bit of research on Jisho.org, which is my favourite dictionary, and came across something hilarious.
I was checking up on a colloquialism I’d heard about, すいません, and how it compares to すみません.
I stumbled across すみま千円, and I cannot stop laughing.
After doing a quick search on the forums here, it appears we don’t have a good pun thread going at the moment?
Anyone else got good Japanese puns to share?
My friends from Saitama jokingly call their prefecture “ださいたま.”
lol that’s freaking hilarious
Oldie but goldie. Thank you very muchinko.
These might be pretty standard, but when I first came to Japan my host mother took me to a conveyor-belt sushi restaurant and just let loose on the puns:
いかいかが？ How about some squid?
いくらいくら？ How much do the salmon eggs cost?
はまちハウマッチ？ How much does the hamachi cost? (That one’s Japanglish, but ah well 
)
And one I made up in response:
あじのあじは？How’s the mackerel taste? 
http://ladygodiva.web.fc2.com/other/gag.html
「ふとんが、ふっとんだ」
「お金は、おっかね～。」
「カレーはかれえ（辛い）」
「トイレにいっといれ」
「父さんの会社が倒産した。」
「車がくるまで待っててね」
「カッターを買った」
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