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Word: pun (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Joining me as Tri-Sports Editors are Eric Brown and Matt Howitt. If you like bad pun-itive headlines, San Francisco native Eric is your man. He was mighty happy during the Stupor Bowl, and he would find it cool, dude, if the Sharks or baseball Giants do well...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Meet Your Sports Executives! | 2/1/1995 | See Source »

Still, I left the game feeling a bit funny. I'm used to saving all of my anger for the Dodgers or another pansy L.A. team, and here I am getting horse (no pun intended) yelling about a team that plays at the RCA Dome...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Hormonal Chanting | 12/14/1994 | See Source »

Rooting for Yale has a distinctly subversive flavor here, and that's part of its appeal. I like rooting for Yale. It is perpetually that second-or third-best alternative, that underdog (no pun intended) school with just the right amount of respectability with a difference...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Boola, Boola, Eli Yale! | 11/19/1994 | See Source »

Freshman Kristen Bowes would ice (no pun intended) the match in the final minute when she headed in a corner taken by freshman Emily Stauffer to provide the final score...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Women's Soccer Earns Rave Reviews in the Winds of War | 11/3/1994 | See Source »

They also engage in that most honorable and despised form of wordsmanship, the pun. The gooey remains of an ancient Egyptian are "guaca-mummy." A vampirish hospital worker is called "Nurse Feratu." Acolytes cavorting in worship to a Japanese monster are "the Mothra Graham Dance Troupe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: The Magical Mst Tour | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

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