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(...) Luckily, his doctor remembered him. Dave! (21 years ago, 25-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.pun, FTX)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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| | 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)
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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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(...) Thank you for acknowledging one of my favorite malapropisms:-) (...) You rock! JOHN (22 years ago, 9-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.pun, FTX)
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(...) With these types of relationships it's important to approach from the right angle, and if it smells a bit fishy, try angling. But don't get snagged on a wreck......tangle ! It's often hard to enter Royal circles, just ask Di...amateur ! They (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.pun, FTX)
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(...) Not to go off on a tangent, but that's plane nuts. I've had a few-- they seem to come and go, but mine are come n-gon. I guess it's a bad sine. DaveE (22 years ago, 23-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.pun, FTX)
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(...) ROFLMAO! All the blood has rushed to my head. I couldn't compete with you... too much blood pressure. As for the humour-impaired, this MOC is not designed for anyone who is thicker than water. For the rest of you punsters there's (URL) more (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.pun, FTX)
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(...) Wow, putting that together must have involved a lot of bloodwork. I give it an AB+ for creativity. I bet you had to take out a loan from the blood bank so you'd have enough blood money to finance the construction. The structure has some (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.pun, FTX)
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Greetings .spacers and caution: here be puns...arrr!. After all the talk in the media about bloodshed, we thought we should show you our bloodshed. It's just a little bloodshed. Nothing to worry about, really. It's the perfect place to store the (...) (22 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.pun, FTX)
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(...) In their opinion, reliability is demonstrated in public through not changing forward and back again just because some "whiners rant". By the way, did anybody around here consider writing to a newspaper? It wouldn't be a topic for the first (...) (22 years ago, 11-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.pun, lugnet.color)
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(...) Uh... What makes a company, thrustworthy? -Bryan (22 years ago, 7-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| | Re: Kt. Moozaf Blastov and Oh-Gee
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(...) Like the warning you posted above? (...) Okay, maybe it's a pronunciation thing. But, I can see it now: "Leonard Hoffman world's most subtle poet" How about 'emergency pun response consultant.' And, OMG, the pun is still in this post, which (...) (22 years ago, 7-May-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.pun, FTX)
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