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Some people don't even want to go out for the night without their dogs. At Completely Canine in Miami, Tuesdays and Thursdays are Yappy Hour (find a dog lover and you've found a pun lover). "Dogs need parties as much as we do," says Linda Monterrey, who attends with Gidget, a scrappy, petite Chihuahua mix. At Manhattan's Doggie-Do salon (seriously, they love puns), owners can hold dog birthday parties and bark mitzvahs (you believe me now?) with printed invitations, gift registries and a game called ice hockey, in which dogs chase a slippery liver snack frozen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's a Dog's Life | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...saying things that sound vaguely familiar, so that the person grading it can know it is right. The ideas in my papers are petrified, stillborn; they’re a string of academic commonplaces soaked in lye. I find my creative outlet in the titles, specifically in whatever alliterative pun comes before the colon...

Author: By Madeleine S. Elfenbein, | Title: Old Rabbits Die Hard | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...billion replacement system, supposed to be completed around 2005, has gotten so far off schedule that the military could suffer an "imagery gap" as aging satellites in the current system flicker out. The so-called Future Imagery Architecture program, managed by Boeing Co. - and nicknamed "FIASCO," a pun on its acronym, by some insiders - is also running well over budget even as the aerospace giant has had to scale back some promised new capabilities, officials said. That's led some U.S. officials to charge that Boeing had underbid in an aggressive effort to win the contract. "They wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Blind Eye in the Sky? | 3/22/2003 | See Source »

Along with most of hip-hop’s current luminaries, 50 Cent has a talent for setting life stories to clever, expletive-laden rhymes and killer beats (pun intended). When he’s not boasting about his talents and mad pimpin’ skillz or taking potshots at his archenemies, he has an autobiography to tell...

Author: By Tiffany I. Hsieh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CD Review | 2/28/2003 | See Source »

...instance, “Passé Recomposé,” a pun on the French verb tense meaning “recomposed past,” pictures a figure with scars across his chest, standing at a diagonal in water, and a similar figure of solid black looming behind...

Author: By Isabelle B. Bolton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Emotions, Expression Pervade Cauvin’s Art | 2/28/2003 | See Source »

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