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Pun for the Ages
New York Times ^
| March 28, 2009
| Joseph Tartakovsky
Posted on 03/29/2009 10:22:41 AM PDT by billorites
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To: billorites
I like puns.
Mark Steyn, my favorite writer of the moment, is a serial offender, and very funny, IMHO.
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posted on
03/29/2009 10:35:43 AM PDT
by
Sherman Logan
(Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
To: billorites; mikrofon; Charles Henrickson
Dryden called it the “lowest and most groveling kind of wit.” To Ambrose Bierce it was a “form of wit to which wise men stoop and fools aspire.”
To: billorites
This, OTOH, is a JOKE.
To: billorites
I read that while eating a Johnsonville sausage, it was the wurst of punishments.
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posted on
03/29/2009 10:44:49 AM PDT
by
RipSawyer
(Change has come to America and all hope is gone.)
To: billorites
You mean like
Islam is a religion of PIECE?
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posted on
03/29/2009 10:52:44 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's simple, fight or die.)
To: billorites
puns don’t make us laugh, but groan I am curious how the New York Times reconciles its masthead logo, "All The News That's Fit to Print," in today's world.
To: billorites; The Spirit Of Allegiance
I had an idea for a low-carb hot dog stand called “No Bun Intended.”
To: billorites
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posted on
03/29/2009 11:02:06 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's simple, fight or die.)
To: Sherman Logan; mikrofon; martin_fierro; The Spirit Of Allegiance
I like puns. So do I. A good pun is its own reword.
To: martin_fierro; mikrofon; The Spirit Of Allegiance; PJ-Comix; Cletus.D.Yokel; bcsco; ...
HENRICKSON
IN VESTMENT FUNNED
Martin Fierro stands by it.
To: billorites
In the case of puns, I am an elitist as any card carrying liberal academe.
Puns are a sign of high intelligence. They take a good knowledge of language added to a large degree of wit with a huge dose of self confidence that a general audience won't see the pun as witty as a select few.
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posted on
03/29/2009 11:32:27 AM PDT
by
llevrok
("I have never understood multiparty democracy." - HR Clinton 3/6/09)
To: MosesKnows
Actually that’s , “All the news that fits, we print.”.
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posted on
03/29/2009 11:36:03 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: billorites
Odds are that a restaurant with a punning name — Snacks Fifth Avenue, General Custard’s Last Stand — hasn’t acquired its first Michelin star.
I think that a lot of hot dog restaurants have punny names:
Wiener and Still Champion
Lucky Dogs
Sturgis Dog House
Mustard's Last Stand
The Wieners Circle
Weenie Beenie
Hot Doug's
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posted on
03/29/2009 12:00:10 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: Charles Henrickson; martin_fierro
That almost looks like the Rev. Pun Kum Soon with some formerly dead guy....
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posted on
03/29/2009 1:15:54 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(CounterPuncher)
To: tet68
“All the news that fits, we print.” That is very clever and if you will excuse the pun, very fitting.
To: SunkenCiv
These guys have obviously never seen your posts & threads
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posted on
03/29/2009 2:39:18 PM PDT
by
wildbill
( The reason you're so jealous is that the voices talk only to me.)
To: SunkenCiv
These guys have obviously never seen your posts & threads
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posted on
03/29/2009 2:39:19 PM PDT
by
wildbill
( The reason you're so jealous is that the voices talk only to me.)
To: billorites
I read a post lately where an islamic village burned a young girl to death for fooling around with a young man.
It takes a village to braise a child.
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posted on
03/29/2009 2:43:27 PM PDT
by
wildbill
( The reason you're so jealous is that the voices talk only to me.)
To: Yosemitest
oooh, I’m definitely saving those... by which I mean, steal ‘em... ;’)
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posted on
03/29/2009 3:20:54 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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