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Word: puns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Ah, Bruno, Joe Hardly Knew Ye | 10/21/1990 | See Source »

...ludicrous set of priorities when it comes to personal hygiene. I imagine a group of old men locked up in a smoky room somewhere deciding what is "acceptable" and what is not. Their opinions are instilled in the national consciousness by an overzealous advertising industry itching (no pun intended) to extract a few bucks by fabricating social insecurities...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: A Song of Selsun Blues | 10/6/1990 | See Source »

...After Carpentras, Interior Minister Pierre Joxe called Le Pen a racist and a provocateur. The National Front leader has aimed his invective mainly at North Africans. But he has also made outrageous remarks about Jews, calling the Nazi gas chambers "a point of detail" in history and making a pun involving the word crematory on a Jewish minister's name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Issues of Color And of Creed | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

...instance, the traditional pun-runs this year are short and actually advance the plot. The audience still groans, but the Shakespeare puns and the Cole Porter allusions in particular are very funny and even challenging. In addition, the writers have dispensed with the boring and often offensive pairing-off of the entire cast at the very end of the show. In fact, there are actually male characters who are friends with male characters and female ones, all without unnecessary homophobic references. The Pudding may yet move into the 1990s, or the '70s at least...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: Pudding Heights | 2/21/1990 | See Source »

...issue is not as politically suicidal (pun intended) as it once was, and not as extreme either. A complete ban on all indoor public smoking is certainly not a fringe issue, although admittedly it still could cost more votes than it would gain. But an anti-smoking cause would sure fit nicely with his overall crusade...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: George is on My Mind | 1/19/1990 | See Source »

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