“What kind of vegetable might you find in your basement?”/“Cellary.”

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Entry from May 03, 2021

“What kind of vegetable might you find in your basement?”/“Cellary.”

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Twitter
president jojo
@NonePizza
@WilliamShatner what kind of vegetable might you find in your basement?? CELLARY
11:07 PM · Jun 9, 2013·Twitter Web Client

Twitter
David R. Yale
@bestpuns
Don’t grow a long, thin, green vegetable under lights in your basement. It will taste too cellary!
Moew #puns
http://bit.ly/17PhL9R
5:05 PM · Feb 15, 2014·TweetDeck

Twitter
Ed
@JokesByEd
Basement vegetable:
Cellary
6:46 AM · Aug 25, 2016·Twitter Web Client

Twitter
Floofy
@floofyfluff2
Replying to @ceIendine and @judalled
back in my day we kept those onions to ourselves, hidden in our dark vegetable cellars in the basement
11:16 PM · Jan 13, 2017·Twitter Web Client

Twitter
Nicholas Marstol
@NMarstol
“You face the Sphinx again, brave adventurers! None before have come back for seconds!”
“Spare us the small talk and give us your riddle, beast.”
“What vegetable grows best in the basement, yet needs the sun?”
“Um… Mushrooms?”
“No. #Cellary.”
#vss365
10:35 PM · Aug 1, 2019·Twitter for Android

Reddit—Oneliners
Posted by u/obra1234 May 2, 2021
I’ve got a vegetable patch in my basement , it’s cellary.

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