Puns don't translate very well. By the time you get done explaining
it, you've killed it. They work better as throw-away lines.

George had a hole in the side of his head.

It's like the perennial one about the holy spoon.
A slotted spoon -- a spoon with holes in it for cooking...
We often call it a holy (holey) spoon.

But I forgot... There is no spoon.