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Re: T-shirt Idea
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lugnet.off-topic.pun
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Wed, 5 May 1999 23:07:06 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> And .shun -- that'll keep Mike out. ;;-)
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> > OK, I'm .dun
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> {groan!}
That whole thing was a set up for the pun(ch) line. (1)
I trimmed followups to just .pun
1 - Isaac Asimov was a master punster. He spoke of such a joke or story
as being a "shaggy dog story", and he had one story that was the
shaggiest of shaggy dog stories. It had a specially chosen title, which
itself was a pun. Do you know what it was? For extra credit, what was
the punchline?
ch - this is NOT a footnote, just a visual pun. Thanks for looking,
though
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Punsters (was Re: T-shirt Idea)
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| (...) Speaking of punsters, has anyone read any Spider Robinson's _Callahan's_Crosstime_Saloon_? Good book, I'd recommend it to everyone to read. Anway, I picked up a video game that was based loosely on the book. In one part, you were given a list (...) (25 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
| | | Re: T-shirt Idea
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| (...) I'm fairly sure I've read this one... It was a SF-y type Asdimov, IIRC. But then, he wrote these types of things several times. Is it on a par with Niven's chocolate covered manhole covers,. though? Jasper (25 years ago, 30-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
| | | Re: T-shirt Idea
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| (...) Was it worse than the "Furry with the syringe on top"? Or "Give my big hearts to Maude, Wayne; Dismember me for Harold's choir"?[1] Steve 1- That one's not quite right, but the correct answer sounds very close to this. (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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