Julie with a B

Sunday, February 27, 2005
 
The pun
I have not found, heard, acquired any good puns lately... maybe it's the rain, I dunno. This morning I ran across "The History of the Pun"..... and nabbed a couple quotes about punning just for the pun of it.

Fred Allen:"Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted."

Dave Barry: "Puns are little 'plays on words' that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that his is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead, when in fact what you are thinking is that if this person ever ends up in a lifeboat, the other passengers will hurl him overboard by the end of the first day even if they have plenty of food and water."

James Boswell:" . . . a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."



- posted by JulieB @ 10:03 AM
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