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!
November 25, 2005, 12:21
shufitz
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."
November 25, 2005, 21:32
<Asa Lovejoy>
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Step right up, folks, and put your puns and ... here!
I don't normally display my puns in bublic.
June 13, 2007, 11:15
Kalleh
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!
June 13, 2007, 11:39
arnie
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.
June 13, 2007, 18:40
<Asa Lovejoy>
As you enter the bus, "Up us two, but not up Chuck?"
Or maybe he used to bus tables, but now his bussing's been tabled. Or when he shows back up, "I guess you've forgotten the drill, Chuck." (Drill chuck being the holder of the drill bit)This message has been edited. Last edited by: <Asa Lovejoy>, June 13, 2007 20:04
June 13, 2007, 20:02
Myth Jellies
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
June 13, 2007, 21:09
Kalleh
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..."
June 13, 2007, 23:09
Richard English
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I will ask Casey about that tomorrow when we are waiting "Chuck-a-less" at the train
That'll give him a few "chuckles", I'm sure.
Richard English
June 14, 2007, 02:59
arnie
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I will ask Casey about that tomorrow
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.
June 14, 2007, 09:41
Kalleh
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!
June 14, 2007, 19:33
Caterwauller
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
June 14, 2007, 19:52
Kalleh
Oh, I like that last one, CW.
June 18, 2007, 21:02
<Asa Lovejoy>
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!'"
June 21, 2007, 19:42
Kalleh
Now I need one for Casey. Any ideas?
June 21, 2007, 21:27
<Asa Lovejoy>
Let's leave a spot for him just in Casey decides to show up.
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.
October 10, 2007, 20:36
jerry thomas
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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Last Updated: Thursday, 11 October 2007, 01:49 GMT 02:49 UK
Czech parents to exchange babies
Two Czech couples whose babies were mixed up after hospital births 10 months ago have met to prepare for an exchange of their children. The apparent hospital error came to light after one father thought his daughter did not resemble him.
DNA tests proved that neither he nor his wife could be the parents. The other couple is now also being tested.
The two couples are planning to sue the hospital, which has launched an inquiry to determine how the mix-up occurred.
Nikola and Veronika were both born on 9 December last year in a clinic in Trebic, 165 km (100 miles) south of the Czech capital, Prague.
But several months after his daughter's birth, Libor Broza had a DNA test, because he thought Nikola did not look like him. The test was negative.
Tests on his partner Jaroslava Trojanova also showed that she could not be the mother.
Last week the couple met Jan and Jaroslava Cermak and their daughter Veronika.
The Cermaks are also having tests done, but already both couples have agreed to swap their daughters before the end of the year.
"Of course, we are happy, but on the other hand, we also feel terrible," Jaroslava Trojanova told Czech radio.
The police are investigating the case, and the hospital has launched an inquiry into what it called a "regrettable case".
Mr Broza and Ms Trojanova plan to seek Kc10m ($510,000) in damages.
A child psychologist who is working with the couples in the run-up to their baby exchange said it would be more difficult for the mothers to cope than for the children.
October 10, 2007, 21:37
<Asa Lovejoy>
I m glad both parents were Praguematic about the exchange. No doubt when the right child went missing, they named it Mstislav.
November 30, 2007, 13:01
TrossL
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.
November 30, 2007, 13:30
dalehileman
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
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!