Word: punning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 495-2222. $6 students; $10 for general. For those audience members who might think that the title of the Harvard Ballet Company’s (HBC) spring show, “Pointe/Counterpointe” is simply a clever, if slightly hackneyed, pun, HBC’s Facebook group promoting the show assures that such is not the case. According to a blurb on the website, the show will fulfill viewers’ hopes if they have “ever wanted to see what happens when ballet dancers took off those pointe...
...party in your mouth,” have left at least a few residents shaking their heads. “At first none of us understood. We just couldn’t figure out what Kirkland had to do with bubble gum or if there was a pun that we were all missing,” wrote Kirkland resident Jayne F. Wolfson ’08 in an e-mail. “When it came down to the final vote, all of the guys cheered for the bubblegum shirt. We then realized that it must be some sort...
...already bored during the opening credits. 3. Take two shots when you hear the line that’s in every dog-based movie since Lassie: “She’s trying to tell us something!” 4. Whenever you hear an annoying pun on the word “dog.” Example: “Doggone!” 5. When you reach the infamous “Italian-Resaurant Scene,” and realize that two random Italian dudes are trying to help Tramp get it on with an uptown girl...
...Texas Public Finance Authority Board. "He's very tough," James R. Huffines, chairman of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, and a 25-year friend of Whittington, told TIME. "He's a real tenacious competitor in everything he does. I hate to use this pun, but he really is a straight shooter in all sense of the word, with a real sense of right and wrong for the taxpayers...
...things that offend us. Yet just because I find something distasteful, backward, or inane does not mean it is racist, immoral, or unlawful. Racism implies a malicious hatred of a race. Making light of a cultural aspect of a group, in this case with a horrid pun, does not necessarily constitute a malicious attack on that racial group. If you want a t-shirt to be upset about, look at the ones that tell girls to throw stones at boys. If this shirt told people to stone Asians, then it would be something with which to take issue. However...