You're lucky, Ted, that you remember jokes and puns. I hardly ever remember a single joke.

"My Word" is a BBC radio quiz game I used to listen to when I used to listen to NPR before I went cold-turkey and stopped listening to the radio at all because my theshold for hearing anything at all painful was extremely lowered after the 11th. "My Word" was great fun. Sometimes the panelists would trace the origins of famous sayings, and their stories were full of clever puns for which they were awarded points. Your stories are right up there in their league.

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WorldWeary