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>Surely, TEd, you could, in the first case, have got the elephant to carry it on it's back, or, in the second, have shoehorned it in?
Gerald, which is what my son calls his elephant, refuses to be a beast of burden. Since he's pink, of course, he's a beast of bourbon.
Challenge: What's the first pun in the preceding paragraph?
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In reply to:
Gerald, which is what my son calls his elephant, refuses to be a beast of burden. Since he's pink, of
course, he's a beast of bourbon.
Challenge: What's the first pun in the preceding paragraph?
this couldn't possibly be what you had in mind, but a Jerrican hold a lot of bourbon.
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Why duz 'e sink 'e's pink?
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Challenge: What's the first pun in the preceding paragraph?
Well, Gerald Ford was a Republican president and the elephant is the mascot for the Republican party. Does that hold any relevance?
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Gerald Ford was a Republican president
Good job, Jazzo. What's the play on words here? That the Republican's are a burden? Or should I look to the "pink elephant" reference and commence my parade? Allusions (as the author intended or invented by the reader) and puns often share terrain, do they not? I feel like I'm playing the Questions Game on "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"
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pink elephants
There is nice side issue about white elephants, en passant. The term can be applied to most politicians, IMNSHO (is that the right abbreviation???). Pink has lots of layers of meaning if you look hard (even without rose tinted spectacles). On the other hand it could be a pink herring.
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jo, your aura is certainly rutilant today.
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Challenge: What's the first pun in the preceding paragraph?
I think it's really obscure:
Elephants trumpet.... Trumpets herald.... Herald what? Herald Gerald!
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>Well, Gerald Ford was a Republican president and the elephant is the mascot for the Republican party. Does that hold any relevance?
No. A couple of you got pretty close, so I'll give a BIG hint: Scat!
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No. A couple of you got pretty close, so I'll give a BIG hint: Scat!
Louis Armstrong?
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