Founder

[William Hupy]

Here is a riddle: What do ships and pots have in common? They are both vessels. But wait, there's more. When cooking meat on the stove a valuable fond will appear at the botttom of the pot. Fond, from French, means bottom. A ship that founders is sent......wait for it....to the bottom.

[Slava]

To this we can add the founders of the fun dish, the fondue.

The founders of Washington, D.C. didn't account for the soil when they founded the Washington monument. It is foundering.