Why is a stadium so cold?
(Riddle)
Answers
Becuz it has a lot of fans..?
Answer:
The stadium is very cold because there are lots of fans. Here, fans mean the supporters of that particular sport.
Explanation:
The given word is an example of Pun. A pun is a figure of speech in which one word can mean completely different things. In the given example, there is a pun of the word ‘fan’. One of the meanings of the word is the electrical device which is used in cooling during summers. And, the other meaning is the group of supporters or the people who are enthusiastic about any sport or any person in general.
In this sentence, the word stadium signifies that some kind of sporting event is going on and there are lots of supporters/fans present in there. The speaker has used the fan as a punning word to bring about the comic element in the sentence. And, to bring about the comic element is one of the reasons why puns are so frequently used in our day to day speech.