Adventures in Lexicology #27

Punjab (puhn·jaab), n.  A pugilistic pun. [He was floored

by an unexpected punjab.]

Bellerophon and Pegasus on the Daredevil Circuit

Careful with That Pun, Eugene

He was remembered for having left no tern unstoned.

On Independence Day, Chester A. Reilly says, 

"What a revoltin' development this is!"

Support Group for Victims of 

Paronomasia

Unmitigated Gaul

Identity Thief

Nautical Humor

Free Online Metro Gnome

Pay-As-You-Go Immodesty Protester

Meet and Greet

"I can't eat another bite," said the olive.

  "I'm stuffed!"

Like Doug Piranha, Trump used sarcasm. 

He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, 

metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes.

and satire.

China cracks down on puns.  Media regulators say

 “they can create misunderstandings for the public, 

especially for miners.”

"I'm here to wreak vengeance on anyone who dares 

to make a mathematical pun on 'National Pie Day'."

Venus de Milo, the World's Most Famous 

Statue of Limitations

Not a minute too soon, he realized that 

someone was trying to frame him.

Was it just a visual pun, or was the Republican Party

truly facing a fork in the road?

On the day after the last person who had ever played Donkey

Kong died, no one, except the author, understood the title

of his book.  As a result, his book sales plummeted and he

was reduced to blogging for free and posing for pictures

with plain women, obscure rightists, and bottles of beer. 

Such were the risks of bad puns and historical allusions.