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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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