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However, someone needs to tell these decorators that if you're going to engage in this kind of punnery, you might want to include the bee:
Archive 2009-02-01 Jen 2009
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However, someone needs to tell these decorators that if you're going to engage in this kind of punnery, you might want to include the bee:
Heart Expressions Jen 2009
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What burns a little is that he took my “tightly folded genes” punnery and appeared to think it was serious.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Because the ladies have been relatively well behaved… 2010
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Should Weiner not survive, should he perish in a hail of all-caps tabloid punnery, there is only one place he can truly redeem himself, find similar, empathetic company and seek forgiveness:
Weiner Should Be Seeing Green Jason Gay 2011
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Should Weiner not survive, should he perish in a hail of all-caps tabloid punnery, there is only one place he can truly redeem himself, find similar, empathetic company and seek forgiveness:
Weiner Should Be Seeing Green Jason Gay 2011
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With a last name that screams bad punnery and a penchant for posing, Anna Semenovich is a favorite for her good humor — if not so much for her record of wins.
15 Hottest Female Figure Skaters of All Time | Manolith 2010
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"I wanna be a Gow-boy" is fairly understandable, and certainly in the ballpark of acceptable punnery.
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For punnery I have a soft spot for "The Unbearable Lateness of Boeing"
Punny Headlines Newmania 2007
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For punnery I have a soft spot for "The Unbearable Lateness of Boeing"
Archive 2007-03-01 Newmania 2007
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For punnery I have a soft spot for "The Unbearable Lateness of Boeing"
Archive 2007-03-04 Newmania 2007
corylusavellana commented on the word punnery
A place for the rehabilitating habitual poor punners. Inspired by Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing: "Get thee to a nunnery."
December 22, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word punnery
Why rehabilitate them? Nuns don't get rehabilitated in a nunnery. I think puns should go to a punnery to live together in peace and harmony and pray for the souls of the rest of us.
;)
December 22, 2008
corylusavellana commented on the word punnery
I am repeatedly warned that puns are a low form of wit... I can't wholly agree, as they make me profoundly joyful, but I suppose the stigma has rubbed off. Somehow it seems safer for the wider world to have a specific place for puns...
December 23, 2008
whichbe commented on the word punnery
Puns can be often be dreadful, but they can sometimes work. It largely depends on what the joke is, how the word sounds, what the context is, etc. I've noticed that self-aware puns (perhaps defined as ones that register high on the criticism or ironic barometer) do better for comedy and for taste.
Before, say, 2002 or so I used to hate the blasted things, but by now they're huge a part of my life and writing--they remind me of the flexible nature of language, symbolic association, and the art of recontextualing.
December 23, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word punnery
I like them because I get to exercise my "groan" muscles.
Which frankly is about the only exercise I get these days.
December 23, 2008
whichbe commented on the word punnery
You can also exercise your groan muscles by expanding this tag.
December 23, 2008
yarb commented on the word punnery
Surely poor punners ought to be sent to a federal punitentiary?
December 23, 2008
reesetee commented on the word punnery
I was waiting for that comment. ;-)
December 23, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word punnery
Oh! Oh!! *groan*
Thanks yarb.
December 23, 2008
pterodactyl commented on the word punnery
I like puns, but even I have to admit that puns are the lowest form of pastry.
December 23, 2008
corylusavellana commented on the word punnery
As in a current pun?
December 24, 2008