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...surprise, those puns are are as plentiful and pun gent as ever Consider the following...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Roar of the Greasepaint | 2/23/1983 | See Source »

...jokes fall flat now and again. Heath after encountering mass hissing for a pun, turns unpleasantly to the audiences and says. You think that's joke' Look at your date. But such gattes are more than offset by other yuk yuks meluding one American Express gag that deserves to be kept quiet...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Roar of the Greasepaint | 2/23/1983 | See Source »

...poet's pun-filled primer leads the list of bestselling guides

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: The New Hardware Made Easy | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

...adding the letter p to a word to denote a predicate. Thus "Food-p?" means "Are you hungry?" Or "State of the world-p?" might elicit a literal "Yes, the world is O.K.," but the hackers acclaim a nonsense reply: "Yes, the world has a state." The classic pun involves a hacker who wanted to know whether a neighbor would like to share a bowl of soup big enough to feed two and asked, "Split-p soup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glork! A Glossary for Gweeps | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

...PAST few years, it looked as if Walt Disney Productions had lost its way Apparently not content with the sort of films that entertained generations, of moviegoers. Disney sought to widen its audience appeal, as if audiences could be larger than those that appreciate Disney's Peter Pun of Dumbo As a result, the studio presented the likes of Trol, an elephant of a different, less charming sort With Tex. Disney happily regains its proper course, offering a movie that, like a black hole but unlike Disney's The Black Hole draws an audience completely into its environment. An examination...

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: Growing Up In Bixby | 11/10/1982 | See Source »

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