"Chuckle Stop!"

A few years ago, there was a famous footballer called Ian St John, who played as a striker (attacking goal scorer) for Liverpool. Around that time a Methodist church in Liverpool put up an advertisement on a board outside the church: JESUS SAVES!. By the next morning there was a piece of graffiti added to the notice by an anonymous Liverpool supporter: St JOHN SCORES ON THE REBOUND!

Commentary:
The graffiti joke comes about because of the potential lexical ambiguity in the word ‘saves’ and the phrase 'St John'. In Christian contexts, 'saves' means ‘rescue from sin’ and 'St John' refers to one of the gospels of the New Testament. However, the graffiti's reference to Ian St John invokes another meaning of 'save' specific to the football context - saving goals by preventing an opposing team from scoring - and effectively transforms Jesus into a goalie!

There are other possible meanings for ‘saves’ of course. You can probably make up your own graffiti invoking a financial context.

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