Archive for Puns
Walking into bars
Cargo space
Ming dynasty rebus
Putting the G in Mussorgsky
Earlier today, I had occasion to look at the Wikipedia article about Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky. I was amused by the section about variant spellings of his last name, especially...
Some puns
Uncle Dobe passed along a list of puns, many of which (to my surprise) I hadn't seen before, and some of which made me laugh out loud. Here's an abridged...
Modes of persuasion
I have no training and but little skill in rhetoric, but I find the bits of it that I've seen fascinating, especially the names for things. I recently learned that...
Dual-interpretation sketches
Vardibidian recently pointed to a Ronnie Corbett sketch involving double meanings of terms like “Blackberry.” I enjoyed the sketch; fun verbal comedy. And I was pleased, because I often see...
Handling
Unintentionally funny bit from an article today. The article discusses the lack of delays today from passengers requesting a “pat-down” instead of going through backscatter machines. Then it switches topics...
The future of pot is hazy. Get it? Get it? I made a joke!
Nearly every major-news-venue article I've seen about California's Proposition 19 (the one to legalize marijuana) has used the word “hazy” and/or some other pun about marijuana smoke or getting high....