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TB
Aug 17, 2009, 8:07:23 AM8/17/09
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On Jul 19, 1:55 am, "Harry Farkas" <hfar...@wowway.com> wrote:
> I thought this week's The Style Invitational in the Washington Post would be
> of interest to our punsters (and it's a chance to win crap).
>
> Saturday, July 18, 2009
>
> Ou"thou"se: That little shed behind the Quaker meeting hall. (Jennifer Hart,
> Arlington)
>
> S"laughter": Stop! You're killing me! (Elden Carnahan, Laurel)
>
> Di"agnostic"ian: This doctor is just not sure what you've got. (Steve Fahey,
> Kensington)
>
> Here's a contest we've done more than once, but not in eight years: This
> week: Take any word -- this may include the name of a person or place -- put
> a portion of it in quotation marks and redefine the word, as in the examples
> above from 2001, all by renowned Style Invitational Losers. Important note:
> Notice how hard it would be to understand those three jokes if the quotation
> marks weren't there. That's what makes this contest different from another
> one we do regularly, the one to supply a new definition for any existing
> word. This time, the pun shouldn't just jump out at you.
> I thought this week's The Style Invitational in the Washington Post would be
> of interest to our punsters (and it's a chance to win crap).
>
> Saturday, July 18, 2009
>
> Ou"thou"se: That little shed behind the Quaker meeting hall. (Jennifer Hart,
> Arlington)
>
> S"laughter": Stop! You're killing me! (Elden Carnahan, Laurel)
>
> Di"agnostic"ian: This doctor is just not sure what you've got. (Steve Fahey,
> Kensington)
>
> Here's a contest we've done more than once, but not in eight years: This
> week: Take any word -- this may include the name of a person or place -- put
> a portion of it in quotation marks and redefine the word, as in the examples
> above from 2001, all by renowned Style Invitational Losers. Important note:
> Notice how hard it would be to understand those three jokes if the quotation
> marks weren't there. That's what makes this contest different from another
> one we do regularly, the one to supply a new definition for any existing
> word. This time, the pun shouldn't just jump out at you.
Ump"ire": I'm mad about the officiating at the recent Giants-Dodgers
series! At least 3 bad calls went against the Giants!
B"ump": To contact an official at an apine baseball game.
E"tern"ity, Pig"eon": The birds of forever.
nemo
Sep 20, 2009, 6:15:16 AM9/20/09
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"TB" <tsbr...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote in message
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Well the pig gins in London are slowly disappearing. Every day you see one
or two of them slowly fading away!
The spare rows have gone already.
Tim Bruening
Mar 17, 2010, 5:52:05 PM3/17/10
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nemo wrote:
Wouldn't that make London cleaner?
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