Amusing Dunia: The Town of Bull Puns

One hundred lx kilometers N of Wellington , inward New Zealand , at the junction of State Highways 1 too three , lies the pocket-size town of Bulls. You’ll know when you lot gain it when you lot encounter the welcoming sign: “Herd of bulls? It's a town similar no udder.”

Named later James Bull , an English linguistic communication settler who established the outset full general store inward the town inward 1862 , Bulls' residents too businesses convey made the most of its cite alongside puns galore. Every local trouble organisation , store too fifty-fifty the town direction plays along alongside the punning. The police line station is called “Const-a-bull” , the church building “Forgive-a-bull” , too the medical oculus “Cure-a-bull”. Likewise , the town hall is “Social-a-bull” , the tourist data oculus “Inform-a-bull” too all the publics loos are “Reliev-a-bull”. The gift store is “Desire-a-bull” , too a mutual frigidness store “Freeze-a-bull”. The pun but never stops. Even its sis metropolis is the cleverly picked Cowes , inward England.

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Other than its childish puns , there’s non much to encounter roughly Bulls. There is a Bulls Museum , housed inward a sometime stables edifice , containing an extensive collection of items used past times the early on settler every bit good every bit a large collection of mounted rifles exhibit close World War I. There is too an fine art gallery that too sells local fine art , gifts too antiques.

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