| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 221.1 | I wouldn't have known either: what pun? | ECCGY4::BARTA | Gabriel Barta/ESPRIT/Intl Eng/Munich | Sat Jul 19 1986 17:06 | 0 |
| 221.2 | Not a pun | TOPDOC::SLOANE | Notable notes from -bs- | Mon Jul 21 1986 10:15 | 14 |
| RE: .0
Your example is not a pun; it's just using the wrong word (in this
case, saying the opposite of what the speaker actually meant).
A pun is a play on words. In most cases a pun involves using two
words that are similar in sound, but have different meanings. The
humor of a pun comes from the ambiguity between the meaning and
the sound.
-bs
Punster par excellence.
PS - This note contains no puns.
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| 221.3 | At the wake of .0s pun | ALIEN::MCCARTHY | | Mon Jul 21 1986 19:30 | 18 |
| re: .0 I beg to differ:
From the American Heritage Dictionary (It's close by)
Wake:1) The visible track left by something, as a ship, passing
through water.
2) The track or course left behind by something that has passed.
Pun: A humorous use of a word involving two interpretations
of the meaning.
The reporter used precisely the word he meant, and correctly, in
stating that residents who remembered recent rains no longer thought
they had a drought when in fact they did. Now if one considers the
first meaning of wake in that sentence ...
-Brian
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| 221.4 | Driven by a little old lady... | ARGUS::CORWIN | Jill Corwin | Thu Jul 24 1986 15:45 | 6 |
| I saw the following sign in the middle of a row of cars at a used car dealer:
"Check out our used car line"
Jill
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| 221.5 | From the newspapers: | EVER::MCVAY | Pete McVay | Fri Aug 01 1986 11:05 | 5 |
| "Sale on inflatable toys! Slashed beyond belief!"
-- San Francisco Chronicle
"Escaped Leopard Believed Spotted"
-- Srpingfield (Mass.) Union
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| 221.6 | The competition could get slushy, I suppose... | CHUCKM::MURRAY | Chuck Murray | Mon Jan 12 1987 10:40 | 6 |
| From the AP business news:
"'Making its products more nutritious is one strategy Popsicle is
taking as competition becomes increasingly stiff in the frozen
novelty market,' said Paul Kadin, Popsicle's vice president of
marketing."
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| 221.7 | It's not a real word, is it? | STAR::CANTOR | IM2BZ2P | Wed Feb 13 1991 06:00 | 9 |
| A friend of mine was talking tonight about people who go to work on
Antarctica, and how after they are dropped off, they feel isolated.
Of course, strange person that I am, I started chuckling. No one else
heard anything funny and I got a strange look or two. I had to explain
that I thought it was an unintentional pun: I heard 'isolated' as
'icillated'.
Dave C.
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| 221.8 | | NOTIME::SACKS | Gerald Sacks ZKO2-3/N30 DTN:381-2085 | Mon Aug 22 1994 10:50 | 5 |
| In this morning's paper there's a story about a prisoner who allegedly shot
a policeman with the latter's gun. The prisoner was injured also.
"Garcia [the prisoner] was taken to BCH [Boston City Hospital]
and was listed in guarded condition..."
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