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#142417 04/26/05 04:10 PM
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and *why...? :)

> Brought tears to my eyes

Quite. :~


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Amen, mav.


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"A pun is the lowest form of humor - when you don't think of it first." ~Oscar Levant

http://www.essaydepot.com/essayme/1145/



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yeahbut the pun for me is an instantaneous form of wit or it's nothing. I don't fully understand this desire to travel miles off course chasing a chimera of mere near-homophones. But that's parbly jest me.


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parbly jest me

Nuh-unh.


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#142423 04/27/05 08:23 PM
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<<No, Insel>>

Well, yes. And it is redundant.


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<<near-homophones>>

I'm not sure if this near-quote is inviting a response from me, or directed elsewhere.


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> unmanageable Punsters, who interrupt others when engaged in conversation, with Puns or attempts at the same, shall be deprived of their Joseph Millers, and, if necessary, placed in solitary confinement.

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I am more or less resigned to the fact that such a fate is in my cards.



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