Puns and Groaners
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What is a pun? One description is A pun is a play on words. It exploits the multiple meanings of a word, or else replaces one word with another that is similar in sound but has a very different meaning. There are some humorless people who feel that writers and distributors of puns should be arrested and put into a punitentiary. And a groaner? I use the word groaner to refer to a pun that is the punch line of fairly long story. It is common for the listener/reader to emit a groan after hearing the punch line. In fact, some people even try to rate groaners: does the pun deserve a one, two or a three groan rating? You be the judge. In Orbit Open Wide The Pun Contest Marrying Potatoes Two Vultures The Three Wives A Fable An Incident Near Transylvania Tough Mutt What Zelda Wants An Eskimo Adventure Cheerful Psychic Which Motorcycle? The Rabbit Lives Life on Another Planet The Son of Eric the Red? The Holy Entrepreneurs Boll Weevils The Bacon Tree The Titanic Games Players Finding Ancestors Wisdom for the Desert The Girl on the Beach The Little Pigeon Navy Duty The Operation The Twins |