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| 4/22/2005
| Libertarianinexile
Posted on 04/21/2005 6:48:15 PM PDT by LibertarianInExile
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Instructions and application forms are found at the link. I hope some of you will be there and take your best shot for those of us who can't be. As I've travelled the world, I've been kicked out of some of the best hotels on the planet for appreciating these little gems.
One of the top puns of 2003:
Did you hear about the veterinarian who was barred from performing any surgery because he suffered from bouts of epilepsy? The cops busted him for intentional malpractice, attempting to operate on a sick predatory bird during an epileptic fit, but the case was thrown out on a technicality. It was an ill-eagle surgeon seizure.
To: Rennes Templar; Dog Gone; tnlibertarian; Mr. Burns; JoeSixPack1; Joe 6-pack; speedy; Dead Corpse; ..
Freeper FreePun' Ping List PING!
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posted on
04/21/2005 6:49:36 PM PDT
by
LibertarianInExile
(The South will rise again? Hell, we ever get states' rights firmly back in place, the CSA has risen!)
To: LibertarianInExile
Thanks for the word, Lib. Maybe we could field a Freeper team entry. Plenty of twisted minds around here up to the challenge.
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posted on
04/21/2005 6:53:46 PM PDT
by
speedy
To: LibertarianInExile
What?
I've never herd of such a gathering of like-minded speakers!
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posted on
04/21/2005 6:54:22 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
I've never herd of such a gathering of like-minded speakers! On FR or in the world? Punsters tend not to get together very often--some people might lob a bomb into the area.
On FR, on the other hand, all you gotta do to join is ask me to add your name to the ping list. We don't mind if your puns are bad. Ours are, too. In fact, some of my puns were so bad they made it onto America's Most Wanted.. The cops shot `em clean through on sight.
But that was fine...I always considered my puns holy, anyway. [rimshot]
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posted on
04/21/2005 7:01:13 PM PDT
by
LibertarianInExile
(The South will rise again? Hell, we ever get states' rights firmly back in place, the CSA has risen!)
To: LibertarianInExile; martin_fierro; mikrofon
A good pun is its own reword.
To: LibertarianInExile
In junior high I obsessively read virtually every O. Henry story and I don't remember puns being a major feature of them.
To: LibertarianInExile
Your invitaion to continue pLaying with with words is an opun and shut case!
Yes, add me to the ping list.
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posted on
04/21/2005 7:04:23 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Just as long as I'm not accused of being homophonic.
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posted on
04/21/2005 7:06:05 PM PDT
by
SlowBoat407
(I'm not nearklym drunk enough tom deal with it. - FReeper Wormwood, 4/18/05)
To: LibertarianInExile; 13th warrior; 2bfree; af_vet_rr; ajf0; Arrowhead1952; atlassmirked; ...
I will be attending a wedding that day, but will ping others.
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posted on
04/21/2005 7:07:00 PM PDT
by
DrewsDad
To: SlowBoat407
For those who think puns are the lowest form of humor, remember that even Shakespeare played with them. In Antony and Cleopatra, when Antony asked if Cleo was true to him, she said, Omar Kayyem!
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posted on
04/21/2005 7:09:13 PM PDT
by
SlowBoat407
(I'm not nearklym drunk enough tom deal with it. - FReeper Wormwood, 4/18/05)
To: SlowBoat407
Homophones per se are not the problem -- we just want to avoid odd homonym attacks.
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posted on
04/21/2005 7:10:08 PM PDT
by
speedy
To: speedy
Ewwwwwe.
(Robt gets sheepish look.)
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posted on
04/21/2005 7:11:09 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: LibertarianInExile
one person in five in North America is a functional illiterate The rest are dysfunctional illiterates.
To: LibertarianInExile
"... And we'll have puns, puns, puns
'Till our Daddy takes the p-word away!
(With apologies to the Beach Boys, and no one else!)
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posted on
04/21/2005 7:14:47 PM PDT
by
Mr. Jazzy
(Bumper sticker "Martyrs or Marines: Who do YOU think will get the virgins?")
To: Charles Henrickson
"The rest are dysfunctional illiterates."
Yes, it's my understanding that those are the folks who can't not spell properly and are often caught using proper grammar.
It must be hell going through life that way. Imagine, being trapped in a world where everything you see seems to say things in your language. Okay...maybe you don't have to imagine very hard.
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posted on
04/21/2005 7:14:55 PM PDT
by
LibertarianInExile
(The South will rise again? Hell, we ever get states' rights firmly back in place, the CSA has risen!)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
You could be lambasted for a pun like that.
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posted on
04/21/2005 7:15:58 PM PDT
by
speedy
To: DrewsDad
I understand. Blood is thicker than banter.
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posted on
04/21/2005 7:16:18 PM PDT
by
LibertarianInExile
(The South will rise again? Hell, we ever get states' rights firmly back in place, the CSA has risen!)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Great! Always glad to add someone to the list--being pinged is its own punishment.
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posted on
04/21/2005 7:18:34 PM PDT
by
LibertarianInExile
(The South will rise again? Hell, we ever get states' rights firmly back in place, the CSA has risen!)
To: Charles Henrickson
one person in five in North America is a functional illiterate
The rest are dysfunctional illiterates.
Not that they would know from reading this thread.
Actually I'm not typing this myself, I've a dwarf ghost
writer who does it all for me, he's my Gnome d'Plume.
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posted on
04/21/2005 7:19:18 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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