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Must be a stepdaughter to Mr. Hackenslash, the barber.   
 
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Jim Kiick...former Miami Dolphins star.
 
  
 
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Todd Eldredge, on the Olympic team (with the teenagers) again at the grand old age of 30!
 
  
 
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ageist? at the Olympic level?  like I said, he joins a team full of teen-and-twenty-year-olds. the only person older is one of the ice-dancers. Michele Kwan is a veteran of 21.
 
  
 
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And you can't deny that he's eldr than the rest of them.
 
  
 
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>an attempt at a pun whew, it's a good thing you tol... wait, I *still don't get it.    
 
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max, I guess it's my old mind that's on edge... and eldritch is a word of which I'm very fond.
 
  
 
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01/14/2002 9:35 PM
  
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This may be the only sports site in the entire universe where such a pun might fit!
 
  
 
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01/15/2002 12:24 AM
  
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Hey, Max! I got it right off the bat. Just thought I'd let you know somebody did.   
 
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01/15/2002 5:43 AM
  
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>I got it right off the bat
  I thought it was sticks for ice-hockey.
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01/15/2002 12:55 PM
  
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I thought it was sticks for ice-hockey. ROFL! You fun-nee, mon.  And that reminds me of Pokemon, the Jamaican proctologist...(hi, wofa)
 
 
 
  
 
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I don't want to spoil anyone's congratulations, but wasn't tsuwm's original post supposed to be a pun.  The thread was focused on aptronyms, so his use of Eldredge among teenagers was a punny aptronym from the start, right?  Not to slight Max, but wasn't he just using the same pun? Or I'm missing something completely . . .    
 
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...wasn't tsuwm's original post supposed to be a pun.
  I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that.
 
  
 
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tsuwm gets one point for pun on age. Max gets one point for pun on weirdness.
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Okey-dokey?
  Yepski. So does Max get bonus points or negative points for being so darn confusing? No offence intended. 
 
  
 
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TEd! Get in here! We need you!    
 
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I saw it originally, but forgot to award tsuwm one more point for the use of edge  .  
 
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it's like i've always said: puns is worthless if'n you have to 'splain them. deduct two points from max and I, each.  - joe (p. leo) nazm
 
  
 
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deduct two points from max and Ideduct from who m?   puns is worthless if'n you have to 'splain themYou didn't have to: some of us (well, some of them, actually) got them.  No deduction; well done!  
 
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Arguing over points awarded for a pun is like arguing over runs scored on a foul ball.
 
  
 
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I say, Off with their heads, then![regal smirk-e]
 
  
 
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I see no point in continuing. Must disagree, Max.   I see no con in verbal counter-point, only pros.
 
 
  
 
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01/17/2002 10:38 PM
  
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I see no point in continuing. No, no, no, Max--you MUST continue--you just said so, yourself:  you won't get any points if you don't.   
 
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Distance runner (and running columnist):  Dick Miles
 
  
 
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I've just been watching a Canadian TV documentary which was edited by Kate Amend.
 
  
 
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Tiger WOODS - golfer
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Movie actor : Robert Dishey
 
  
 
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How  about Dr. I. Needles, dentist (Manhattan, around 28th Street and Second-or-Third Avenue, 1964-plus-or-minus 2)
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Is there such a thing as an  inaptronym? {Post-edit: mav, thanks for the answer.   } In today's Superbowl, the starting left tackle for the Patriots' offense will be a 305-pound gentleman named  Matt Light. 
 
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