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Word: puns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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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 »

...this time, things have gotten pretty much out of control in the audience, anyway. Numerous bottles of bubbly have been carried into the house after the intermission, and there is much merriment Behind me, a sloshed woman loudly asks her escort to explain a pun "What's that mean--penis?" At one poirt, cries of "Freshman Mixer" and "Buzz Aldren!" go up. In the center section, guest-of-honor Steven Spielberg, the Pudding's newly crowned Man of year, looks mildly bewildered. E.T., after all never had too deal with alumni...

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 »

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