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TEd why must you plague me so with your punning?
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TEd why must you plague me so with your punning?
Getting a bit tse-tse there, m'friend? Bill told me you were one of those who knew-monic-a's a plague before she was an intern. That woulda been after you were, I suspect. Oh, dengue. Was that the Fifth Disease we mentioned or not? Or would that be a horse of a different cholera?
PS for anyone who is struggling here, there is a communicable disease called Fifth Disease. It's a human parvovirus and is called that because it's fifth in frequency of rash-producing childhood diseases.
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PS for anyone who is struggling here, there is a communicable disease called Fifth Disease. It's a human parvovirus and is called that because it's fifth in frequency of rash-producing childhood diseases.
...and it's certainly nothing to scrofula at.
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Someone want to wake me up when this pun storm is over?
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> storm is over?
It suggests a coinage...
punis enlargement - an overblown dose of polysemy that, to some observers, merely sucks. ;]
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So right you really are, you good looking correcting devil.
It was indeed that the last TWO presidental elections were won by our most beloved President Bush.
What a guy. 
There's a most beloved president Bush?
Surely for the prescriptivists amongst us, that should be more beloved President Bush, since there have only been two President Bushes so far.
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Surely for the prescriptivists amongst us, that should be more beloved President Bush …
Whereas the descriptivist will note that sometimes the superlative is used merely to denote a greater degree than is implied by the comparative. E.g., that was a most interesting comment, Bingley.
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Whether or not our current President Bush could even follow this discussion is a most interesting idea, but then again I don't wish to discuss politics in the least.
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> I don't wish to discuss politics in the least. So bring on the most exhaustive detail... 
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