Stauffer wit at its best on Facebook

Dick grew up in a family of five boys with a dad well known for his quick wit.  All five boys followed suit.  A Stauffer gathering is usually one big wit fest.  

The grandchildren are coming right along in their fathers' footsteps, as was quite apparent yesterday on Facebook.  Dick's nephew Japheth in Minnesota posted a sweet update about needing to go to Texas for sewing machine training (he owns a store that sells and services sewing machines), and he has decided to take his wife along.  They have a large family of young children, so getting a time for two is quite rare and special.  

Japheth immediately started getting comments about how special it was for them to be doing this.  Then along came Lisa in Florida with one simple comment containing a pun, and the battle was on.  First just between her and Japheth, but eventually those of us here in our household in State College had to get our two cents in as well.  There were many nice and normal comments from Japheth's other friends, but below I am posting just the ones our family made, plus one other one that contained a good pun.  (You may need to know a bit about sewing and quilting terminology to get all the puns.)

Japheth:  I am looking forward to taking my bride to Texas for a couple days! I have to fly there for sewing machine training so why not make it a date? :-)

Lisa:  Sounds like sew much fun.. 

Japheth:  Oh Lisa, are you trying to needle me with your humor?

Lisa:  Who knows.. I may just leave you hangin by a thread on that one.. 

Did my humor leave you in stitches?

Japheth:  Yes Lisa, I am busting at the seams with laughter! I'm frayed that you have caused my sober outlook on life to become totally unraveled! I was doing sew-sew until you came along and made me rip a gut laughing! (top that! :-)

Lisa:  It's nice to hear a Brother talk about his wife in that way. I'm glad you still Singer praises.

Anthony:  I am bobbin up and down with laughter at all these puns.

Japheth:  rofl! You guys are good!   I must say that you are both batting a 1000. Though my other readers are going to have to do some piecing to figure out the humor. BTW, we have had to put a Baby Lock on a few machines because there are so many kids running around here! Oh well, I better quilt while I'm still a thread!

Lori:  Well, I was going to add my own humor, but I hurt someone's feeling and now have to go and try to make aMENDs.

Jean:  It was my feelings she hurt. KNOT!!!

Lori:  Seriously though, it's so good to know you both are getting a chance to get away alone together. Tailor I said hi.

Lisa:   Y'all are getting ahead of me. I didn't want to type while driving.. Causing me to Zig Zag through traffic... I know, I know .... this becoming quite a Stretch

I apologize on behalf of my family to all the other commenters.. We just really like to cut it up.

Lisa:  Ok George is Hemming and hawing for me to stop...

Not really, he just really wanted me to use hemming and hawing.

Kathy:  I think that Lisa is serging ahead in the comment dept.

Lori:  I'm all out. Not sure if thith is a thign or thimble that I need to get off fathbook for the evening.
I think I tried too hard on thith one. Good night!

Dick:  This is a SHEAR example of the Stauffer wit that doesn't have any pattern!

Japheth:  Ok, this thread has gone long enough and is quite threadbare of puns at this point! I am sure that there are many eyebrows knit together trying to come up with another one, but...is the west end of a horse going east. :-)