Joke of the Week: Where are pencils made?

by Laurie Laurendeau on May 17, 2012

JOKE: Where are pencils made?

ANSWER: In Pencil-vania!

EXPLANATION: The state of Pennsylvania sounds like “pencil”, so it is a play on words with the word pencil.

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