Word: puns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Guerrilla theater note, environmental division, bad-pun subdivision: last month Sierra Club members in Jackson, Wyoming, operating as the Not Yours, Mine, Mining Co., staked a claim to U.S. Forest Service land, now leased to the Snow King Resort and used for a ski lift. The point was to demonstrate that under archaic U.S. law, such claiming of the right to lease public land for mining is entirely legal. At press time, plans for actual mining were not firm...
...Chapter 1 (thesis) shares its titlewith the book. It includes such double-entendre,pun treasures as "Dogs are very direct aboutwanting to go out," Dogs admit when they'rejealous," and "You can train a dog." Some are goodfor a chuckle, particularly when they parody humanself-help tomes--("The Courage to Heel") orpsychobabble ("I'm feeling very conflicted aboutthis new dog you keep talking about bringing home.On one paw, I want a playmate. One the otherpaw...
...According to Cambridge Penal Statute 6ZV-3.2, the use of "Head" in a pun during Head of the Charles weekend constitutes a felony. Miscreants caught bantering about Head aches, Head starts or Head cases all face 60 day jail sentences. The sale of T-shirts invoking unsubtle Head sexual innuendo is punishable by death...
Even the campus publications are guilty--one, whose name readily comes to mind, brags "We put out six times a week, and we'll show you how." A pun based on "put out?" Didn't they use that expression in Grease, or something? There is no excuse for this jejune nonsense. We are serious journalists writing about serious topics. Right...
...title of the play is a pun on The Twilight of the Gods, the final opera in Richard Wagner's Ring cycle. The Ring is a sprawling work about gods and mortals deciding the fate of the world. The information the Gold family receives in the play puts them in the same godlike position, just where the current crop of genetic discoveries puts all of us. It is impossible to overstate the significance of these questions, What kind of world do we want? How will we make these decisions? Whom...