“What do you get when you cross a police dog with a skunk?”/“Law & odor.”
A “law and order” pun is:
Q: What do you get when you cross a police dog with a skunk?
A: Law & odor.
The joke has been cited in print since at least 1996.
12 January 1996, The News Journal (Wilmington, DE), “Just for Laughs,” pg. HR11, col. 5:
Q. What do you get when you cross a police dog with a skunk?
A. Law and odor.
Mikey Prettyman, 7
Bear
26 December 2000, Los Angeles (CA) Times, “The Kids’ Reading Room; Jokes & Riddles,” pg. E7:
What do you get if you cross a police dog and a skunk? Law and odor. (Jesus, 9, Chavez Elementary, Norwalk)
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