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Let the puns begin
Published: 3/31/2009 9:59 AM
Last Modified: 3/31/2009 9:59 AM

The New York Times today has -- no doubt in preparation for April Fool's Day -- an Op-Ed piece on that most lowly form of humor, the pun.

Read the story: Pun for the Ages

It reminds of my days at the Tulsa Tribune when those of us on the entertainment/features staff would engage in a little exercise I called "Pun for Your Life." Apropos of nothing, someone would make up a pun on a topic, and the rest of us would riff on it, spinning out as many groan-inducing puns as we could.

Some of this even managed to make its way into the stories we wrote. I remember several of us trying to come up with dairy related puns that could be worked into a story one of us was writing about a mercifully forgotten band called The Dead Milkmen.

The one I was most proud of -- if pride is a quality one can have for the verbal acrobatics that puns are -- was a description of how the group's music videos would "ooze past your eyes."

Ah, the halcyon days of youth....

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senor notas (4 years ago)

James: The Rambler column in the Tribune carried one of the best punny stories ever to be printed. A great story that had the reader's attention until the punchline. Don't know if it is available in the archives, but it was the Tale of Art Milfamey.

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James D. Watts Jr. has lived in Oklahoma for most his life, even though he still has people saying to him, "Don't sound like you're from around these parts." A University of Oklahoma Phi Beta Kappa graduate, Watts has received the Governor Arts Award, Harwelden Award and the National Conference of Christians and Jews Beth Macklin Award for his writing. Before coming to the Tulsa World, Watts worked for the Tulsa Tribune.

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