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ben was shocked to wake up in the hospital and hear that he had been struck by lightning. What is the pun

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The pun is the fact that the phrase has the word "shocked" in it. Lightning sometimes "shocks" things, and so there is irony in the fact that the phrase is mentioning the fact that he was "shocked" to be "struck by lightning."

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