Word: punned
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Quick, silent and efficient. Maybe the comparisons to the Grim Reaper have more substance to them than just a pun on his last name...
...sounds like a bad pun, but it’s 8 p.m. and Larry Flynt is running late. The publisher of Hustler magazine and Democratic candidate in the California gubernatorial recall was supposed to arrive at Sanders Theatre between 7:30 and 8 this Monday for his speech on the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) College Freedom Tour, but all his publicist knows is that he’s on his way. Standing outside Sanders on a brisk, blowy night, an ACLU rep is chatting with a pair of Harvard police officers about the belated guest...
...into stores already stocked with the proven babyGap line. "It's a brilliant strategy," says Wells Fargo analyst Jennifer Black. "She's buying maternity clothes and baby clothes. Then the baby clothes turn into kids' clothes, the kids' clothes turn into adult clothes. It's a growing market, no pun intended...
Regular readers of the financial pages might be forgiven for thinking the sun has not set for the past few fiscal years. In describing the improving fortunes of teen-clothing retailer PacSun, pun-happy headline writers have frequently alluded to the company's tendency to rise, shine, blaze and heat up. Pacific Sunwear, as it is more formally known, continued the perpetual daylight when it announced last week that its second-quarter profits jumped 84% compared with the same period last year. Sales also increased at hefty double-digit rates, up nearly 23%, to $234.4 million...
...present at the brunch thought that it gave an incorrect impression of the floor. Others found it funny. Gahan says, “When it came out and became public news it kinda gave our floor an added sense of pride—we had that much notoriety. No pun intended, but it brought everyone together...