Global Recession and Financial Crisis have become so critical and serious now days that……
majority of the men have started loving their own wives!!!!!!
Feb18
Category Archives: Pun, Punny Quotations
Feb18
On mobiles, wallets and girl friends
Notice at Church:
Do not leave your mobiles, purses, wallets, handbags, girl-friends UN-ATTENDED
Others may think it is an answer to their prayers.
Apr8
ANAGRAMS FOR FUN
This has got to be one of the cleverest e-mails I’ve received so far. Someone out there must be “deadly” at Scrabble. (Wait till you see the last one)!
PRESBYTERIAN
When you rearrange the letters: BEST IN PRAYER
ASTRONOMER
When you rearrange the letters: MOON STARER
DESPERATION
When you rearrange the letters: A ROPE ENDS IT
THE EYES
When you rearrange the letters: THEY SEE
GEORGE BUSH
When you rearrange the letters: HE BUGS GORE
THE MORSE CODE
When you rearrange the letters: HERE COME DOTS
DORMITORY
When you rearrange the letters: DIRTY ROOM
SLOT MACHINES
When you rearrange the letters: CASH LOST IN ME
ANIMOSITY
When you rearrange the letters: IS NO AMITY
ELECTION RESULTS
When you rearrange the letters: LIES – LET’S RECOUNT
SNOOZE ALARMS
When you rearrange the letters: ALAS ! NO MORE Z’S
A DECIMAL POINT
When you rearrange the letters: I’M A DOT IN PLACE
THE EARTHQUAKES
When you rearrange the letters: THAT QUEER SHAKE
ELEVEN PLUS TWO
When you rearrange the letters: TWELVE PLUS ONE
AND FOR THE GRAND FINALE:
MOTHER-IN-LAW
When you rearrange the letters: WOMAN HITLER
Sep19
Oxford Dictionary updates definitions
Just received Oxford Dictionary’s latest definition of the following words. lease update your online dictionary.
DEFINITIONS :
* Divorce : Future tense of marriage.
* Cigarette : A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end & a fool on the other.
* Lecture : An art of transferring information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through “the minds of either”
* Conference : The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.
* Compromise : The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest Piece. Read the rest of this entry
Aug22
Pun is fun? Or, fun is pun?
What is pun?
“A pun is a phrase that deliberately exploits confusion between similar-sounding words for humorous or rhetorical effect.
“A pun may also cause confusion between two senses of the same written or spoken word, due to homophony, homography, homonymy, polysemy, or metaphorical usage. Walter Redfern has said: ‘To pun is to treat homonyms as synonyms’. Another definition has said that a pun is a word that has two different meanings used simultaneously. For example, in the phrase, ‘There is nothing punny about bad puns’, the pun takes place in the deliberate confusion of the implied word ‘funny’ by the substitution of the word ‘punny’, a heterophone of ‘funny’. By definition, puns must be deliberate; an involuntary substitution of similar words is called a malapropism.
“Puns are a form of word play, and can occur in all natural languages.”
Examples of Punny Quotations
“A pun is a shift of wit. A fart is a whift of shit.”
“A pun is its own reword.” — Dance Drier, British comedian
“Blunt and I made atrocious puns. I believe, indeed, that Miss Blunt herself made a little punkin, as I called it” —Henry James
“If puns are the lowest form of wit, are buns the lowest form of wheat?” — Piers Anthony, Author
“Immanuel doesn’t pun; he Kant.” — Oscar Wilde
“In the beginning was the pun.” — Samuel Beckett, Murphy
“Paris of Troy was so named because his mother had a considerable amount of gaul and married a Frenchman.” — Original Source Unknown.
“Pun (n.): the lowest form of humour” —Samuel Johnson, lexicographer
“Puns are the last refuge of the witless.” —another way of stating the above
“The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.” — Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia, 1849
“‘The man’, says Johnson, ‘that would make / A pun, would pick a pocket!’” .” — Lewis Carroll, “Phantasmagoria”, 1869
“The pun is mightier than the word.” — original source unknown
“95% words in the English language can be incorporated into word-play (while the other 5% can be ex-pun-ged as im-pun-etrable)” — Wayne Redhart (spoof top 500 reviewer on amazon.co.uk)
“You can tune a guitar, but you can’t tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.” —Douglas Adams
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pun
Okay. Have pun!