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..::You all obviously are not aware of the definition of “pun.”
..::Just to enlighten you all, here is the definition along with a few examples of PUNS:
Main Entry: 1pun
Pronunciation: 'pn
Function: noun
Etymology: perhaps from Italian puntiglio fine point, quibble
Date: 1662
: the usually humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest two or more of its meanings or the meaning of another word similar in sound
In Italian, 'puntiglio' means "a fine point," hence a verbal quibble, and is most likely the source of the English "punctilious." There developed in late 17th- and early 18th- century England a short-lived, fanciful word "pundigrion," which indeed was a term for what we now know as a pun. Since snappy monosyllables produced by breaking off pieces of longer words were all the rage back then, it is widely thought that this is how and where the word "pun" was created. A pun is defined by Webster as "the humorous use of a word, or of words which are formed or sounded alike but have different meanings, in such a way as to play on two or more of the possible applications; a play on words." In describing the various forms of verbal humor, The New Encyclopedia Britannica refers to a pun as "two disparate strings of thought tied together by an acoustic knot." That analogy strikes a very pleasant cord
EXAMPLES:
..::Two Eskimos sitting in their kayak were cold, but when they lit a fire in the boat, it sank, proving once and for all that you can’t have your kayak and heat it, too.
..::Two Boll Weevils grew up in South Carolina. One went to Hollywood and became a famous actor while the other stayed to work in the cotton fields and never really amounted to much .The second became known as the lesser of two weevils.
..::Two atoms are walking down the street when they collide. The first atom asks,
“Are you alright?”
“No, I lost an electron”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes, I’m positive”
..::There was a man that entered his local paper’s pun contest. Hoping that at least one would win, he submitted ten puns. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did.
..::A middle-aged couple were talking to the police about their missing sons, Amal and Juan.
”Did you bring any photographs of your sons?” The investigator asked,
”But, they’re twins,” The mother protested,
”If you’ve seen Juan, you’ve seen Amal.”
..::Mahatma Gandhi walked barefoot most of the time, creating large calluses on his feet. He also fasted frequently, which made him rather thin and frail. With his strange diet, he suffered horribly from bad breath, which made him known as a super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.
..::Be kind to your dentist, they have fillings, too
..::There was once a man who was arrested for tripping people. He was charged with a fell-on-knee.
...:::These are puns:::...
...:::Get it right:::...
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