Give some jokes or riddles whose answers are homophones of part of the question ("ecobursts", "echobursts"...

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Problem

Give some jokes or riddles whose answers are homophones of part of the
question ("ecobursts", "echobursts" or "echo verse"), e.g.:

Q: How did the minotaur feel after eating the pretty gladiator?
A: Pretty glad he ate her. (=~Gladiator)

Q: What made the referee so sick he couldn't officiate.
A: A fish he ate. ( =~Officiate)

A patron in our library is looking for ecobursts or echobursts.  Does
anyone know any more?  Or know of another name by which these riddles
are known?  If the word is in fact "ecoburst", the name may have it's
origins with Umberto Eco -- the humor's a little low for him, but I
wouldn't put it past him...

-- Ken Irwin <kirwin@wittenberg.edu>

[ Editor: the opening sentence is the editor's summary of Irwin's
September 1998 posting, which follows it. ]

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Thanks to the illustrious John Dyson on Stumpers-L, I've found out that
the phrase I'm looking for is really "echo verse" -- any examples are
still appreciated.

-- Ken Irwin <krirwin@umich.edu>

Here are some attempts of varying success:

Q: How much did the man charge to pierce the ears of a Buccaneer?
A: A buck an ear.

Q: What would you call a country where everyone drove a car the color
   of a pink carnation?
A: A pink-car nation.

Q: What do stock investors do in a questionable market?
A: Question a Bull Market.

Q: About how many miles between Germantown and Memphis Tennessee?
A: Ten, I see.

Q: What happens when I get hit on the head with ten gallons of ice
   cream?
A: I scream.

Q: What did the girl in the charcoal colored dress do that didn't
   ingratiate a bug?
A: In gray she ate a bug.

-- Carl G. <cginnow@mindspring.com>