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...worst pun that your boyfriend has ever made: Oh God. He's made so many bad ones. Don't get me wrong, but if I didn't love him dearly, I'd dump him over the puns...

Author: By Clare A. Sammells, | Title: Big Stick No Hunt | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

...there's the Egyptian eunuch, Nuttinkhumin (Jeremy S. Nye '94). Get it? Which means a neverending stream of Bobbittesque humor--no pun intended. Scheming to overthrow the Queen and take over his country, Nuttinkhummin announces, "I'll do to Egypt what I can't do to Egyptians...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Kicklines at the Colosseum | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

Indeed, as the game warmed up in its intensity, Ferrari zoomed (a bad pun, I admit, but with a name like "Ferrari," it can only get worse--get used to it, Marco) into a rapidly developing fray...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Icemen "Laugh A Little Longer" at Big Red's Expense, 4-0 | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...however, and even manages to get through a tortured scene involving the Concert of Europe without seeming too much of a cliche. Richard Frank walks a similarly thin line as Geoffrey, the bisexual director who proclaims that "love is love, gender is merely spare parts." Frank, entertainingly gay (no pun intended) as he and McMurtrey cavort around the house, is also capable of pulling off quite serious moments in the second...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: American Three Sisters | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mother Lode Vs. Mother Nature | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

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