Word: punned
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...clear: if, for reason or reasons unknown, you find yourself in the Cinerama Theatre one night, stick around for the opening of the curtain and then leave fast. As interesting, even amusing, storytelling, Grand Prix is just this side of wretched; as film-making, Grand Prix is (no pun intended) the pits...
...loosed upun us many a punatic with an overproductive puncreas who has wrought pundemonium (remember the Punic Wars). Have you no pungs of conscience? Your puny puntomimes are sure signs of mental puntrefaction! But the punneymoon is over-it now behooves the punblic to take pun in hand to try to puncture with punpoint accuracy their impunetrable hides...
...said a 17th century English poet proclaimed, "He who perpetrates a pun would pick a pocket...
Theater Critic Theodore Kalem takes his puns more seriously, recalling that James Joyce was an accomplished punster. Kalem used a pun from Finnegans Wake in an Essay on the theater: "As long as playgoers are yung and easily freudened...
Essayist Charles Lamb wrote: "A pun is a noble thing per se. It fills the mind; it is as perfect as a sonnet, better." Of course, there is another quotation: "Anything awful makes me laugh." And that's Lamb...