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Chun described the play as "a very Pudding script" that includes jokes about Wellesley, Yale and tenured professors. It also includes a "pun run," which is a scene using a series of connected puns...
...everything from GTE phone service to the Coopers & Lybrand accounting firm to music by such '60s icons as the Beatles and Bob Dylan. In a current Chevrolet ad, a pair of '60s-style flower children morph into the proud Establishment-type owners of a Chevy Venture van. "The bad pun we use is that baby boomers will retread, not retire," says Yankelovich's Smith...
This is reminiscent of the controversy over anorexia and models. With anorexia and bulimia spreading, some people are pointing to supermodels and their unusual appearances as the cause. Yet the same media that criticizes the fashion industry for putting too much weight on thinness (pun not intended), went right ahead and described an Olympic ice skater as chunky. What message does this communicate to young girls about their own bodies and the ideal figure they should hope to have? Strive to win an Olympic medal--but your talent doesn't matter unless you're beautiful...
...there's one church that if I was living close by I'd definitely be in the congregation. [It's] in San Francisco--Glide Memorial. Rev. Cecil Williams there looks after the homeless, gays, straights; he marched with Martin Luther King, he's funny as hell--pardon the pun--and you can get an HIV test during the service. Now that's my kind of church...
...sports bar in Brooklyn that was sued for calling itself "The Brooklyn Dodger" had some beef (no pun intended) when it said the Brooklyn Dodgers no longer exist and that Los Angeles has no claim on the name...