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Subject: 
Re: jazzy pun
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.off-topic.pun, lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date: 
Wed, 23 Aug 2000 05:15:48 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.pun, Craig Hamilton writes:
> 
>  i was listening to mc-partland's "piano jazz" last night on the radio, and
> her guest, the talented george shearing threw out this little diddy that i
> thought i'd share....
> 
>  for every pun i shed
>  i should be punish-ed
>  to hang my punish head
>  and hide in a puny shed.


Heh.. I like that one too. It's been credited to at least two sources, one
being Dr. Samuel Johnson, and I forget the other famous guy.

There's at least one other rendering, albeit a bit more extreme yet not too
graphic, and it goes something like this....

I should be punish-ed
For every pun I shed.
Do not leave a puny shred
Of my punnish head.

-Tom McD.
when replying, nine out of ten taste tests prefer spamcake over decomposing
carp entrails on a hot Dallas sidewalk (poll margin of error: 95%)



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  jazzy pun
 
i was listening to mc-partland's "piano jazz" last night on the radio, and her guest, the talented george shearing threw out this little diddy that i thought i'd share.... for every pun i shed i should be punish-ed to hang my punish head and hide (...) (26 years ago, 12-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)

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