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If you're trying to write a love poem but have to strain a bit, exercising poetic license, would that be a case of poetic licentious? Step right up, folks, and put your puns and groaners here!  | ||
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The paper had a long article about toe-fungus, entrenched under the toe-nails and impervious to attack. It referred to folks who are ungually fungal - with ungual meaning in effect "pertaining to or having a nail, claw or hoof." | |||
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I don't normally display my puns in bublic. | ||
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Reviving a thread This poor thread never went anywhere...so I am reviving it.  Besides, I have a punny favor to ask of all my Wordcraft colleagues. I need a pun! Three of us wait for the train together each day, and we've developed a nice friendship. Since I travel a fair amount in my job, I am sometimes not there. They have come up with a great pun when I am not there (keep in mind, my real name is Nancy): They are footloose and Nancy free! Now, here's the request. Charles will be gone for the next 2 weeks, and we'd like to come up with something similar for him. However, we are having trouble. Wordcrafters, does anything come to mind? You could use Chuck another appropriate nickname for Charles. I am counting on you! | |||
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You've chucked him over? No, perhaps not. Needs more work. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. | |||
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Charles has probably been assailed with upchuck his entire life. I wouldn't go there. Can you baby the Chuck out with the bathwater? Probably not. Well if you were footloose and Nancy-free, then you wouldn't have a Charles in the world. Maybe a stretch (the 'h', 'l', and 's' are silent.) Taking the train...could you be... Chuggin along, on the Chuck-a-less-a Choo-Choo? You could even sing it. Myth Jellies Cerebroplegia--the cure is within our grasp | |||
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Oh, I like that, Myth! I will ask Casey about that tomorrow when we are waiting "Chuck-a-less" at the train. Then, of course, we must come up with one for Casey, though I am suspecting that will be easier....something like, "There is no joy in Mudville..." | |||
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That'll give him a few "chuckles", I'm sure. Richard English | |||
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Not Casey Jones, surely? You have a ready-made source there! Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. | |||
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I don't even know his last name, which I suppose is odd. It was a long time before I even knew their first names! We just used to talk until the train came, though now we've gotten to be better friends. I sang the Chuggin' along, on the Chuck-a-less-a Choo-Choo, being quite pleased with myself. Apparently I am such a bad singer that Casey didn't get it.  Casey said that Charles reminds him of an Admiral, but I reminded him that we are, after all, riding a train, and not a boat. Anyway, it's a keeper for me! | |||
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Are you riding the Chuckless Wagon? Hungry for better puns? Does Charles have his own Charlie Horse and no longer need a train? Aww . . . who gives a chuck? ******* "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ~Dalai Lama | |||
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Oh, I like that last one, CW. | |||
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Proffered by a co-worker when I questioned why we mispronounce "the Eiffel Tower:" "We do it because Americans see it and exclaim, 'Wow, that tower's quite an eye full!'" | ||
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Now I need one for Casey. Any ideas? | |||
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Let's leave a spot for him just in Casey decides to show up. | ||
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You Brits will recognise this company: http://company.monster.com/schindl/ Yes, there really is a Schindler's lift! | ||
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I ride up to my staffroom in one every day and always wonder if it's possible to see the name plate without thinking of the movie. "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson. | |||
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Somehow we feel sure that when all the tests are completed and the time comes for someone to pay for it all, someone will be informed that the Czech is in the male.
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I m glad both parents were Praguematic about the exchange. No doubt when the right child went missing, they named it Mstislav. | ||
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Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him .(Oh, man, this is so bad, it's good)..... A super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis. My dad sent this to me in an e-mail today and it is probably really old, but this is the first I've heard of it. | |||
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K: In response to your query for puns, Dear God: I understand how You have made some everyday problems difficult of solution, in order that our will be tested and our resolve strengthened However, after replacing the flapper and then the float valve and finally the refill tube–each twice–with no apparent results, I finally uncovered the source of the tinkle (no pun intended) in spite of all Your efforts to delude me K: If you'd wish to see the rest of this letter please contact me anytime dalehileman@verizon.net | |||
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