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| (...) Luckily, his doctor remembered him. Dave! (21 years ago, 25-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.pun, FTX)
| | | | | Re: The all-new LUGNET .Underground
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| (...) Har har Tim (Mind you, you lose the pun when you change group to o-t.pun!) (21 years ago, 18-May-05, to lugnet.underground, lugnet.off-topic.pun, FTX)
| | | | | Re: I don't get it
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| (...) I should have indicated both that Clarke mentions "Brave New World" by name within the text of "Patent Pending," but I didn't understand the brother-joke that you spell out below! (...) That makes perfect sense! Thanks for helping me out. (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
| | | | | Re: I don't get it
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| (...) I got it. It stuck me all at once. For those who aren't Sci-Fi fans Aldous huxley wrote a book entitled "Brave New World." The theme this of this book is the achievement of Utopia through reproductive technology, eugenics and mind control. As (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
| | | | | Re: I don't get it
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| (...) Maybe it's related to this? (URL) thing I could find that looks possible...? (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.pun, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: I don't get it
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| (...) I'm not sure what the reference is. I did a little googling and came up with this anecdote: Aldous Huxley once found himself discussing genetics with his brother Julian, an eminent zoologist, who happened to use the phrase "aristocracy of (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
| | | | | I don't get it
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| Everyone knows that only my commendable humility exceeds my near-boundless wit, and yet I have stumbled upon a pun-reference that eludes me. I just read Arthur C. Clarke's short story "Patent Pending," copyright 1957, in which Clarke nicely (...) (21 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.pun, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: Cats and Lego
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| SNIPPY (...) Hi Larry, heh, I get it: ABS-ton. Thanks for pointing it out... I hadn't noticed it before. Wonder if it was intentional... BTW, to all those whore still following this thread, a similar one had cropped up here 6 months back. It still (...) (21 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.pun)
| | | | | Re: A Small Rant About Word Usage
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| (...) Isn't Ousterreich near Hungary? They used to be part of the same country, but the former got "Ousted", and thus the name. - Schlickbernd's Insidious Book of Spurious Quotations and Dubious Facts -->Bruce<-- (21 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
| | | | | Re: Preaching to the Choir
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| (...) That pun, however, doesn't serve as a conjunction, so cut the crap and stopping being so anal. I made some good ones and you wrecked'em. JOHN (22 years ago, 9-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.pun, FTX)
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