While it is sad that Winner resorted to this type of fraud, the puns that one could come up with are endless.
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Even the puns and plays off old fairy tales (the city of Ding Dong Dell, for instance, or the villainous mouse king Hickory Dock) feel fresh.
Bell, who has been a crossword puzzle buff since he was 10, and a team of five or six other wordsmiths (the puns in the office, Bell says, are frequent and frequently bad) come up with an initial list of as many as 1, 000 names.
True, the second half is almost completely unnecessary, the English accents are laughable and the footwear puns are relentless.
Fond of puns, the word "offal" is particularly ripe for abuse.
Jesus may have also salted his speech with puns on Aramaic words, the language of everyday communication.
Not satisfied with piratey puns or bad jokes about the "poopdeck, " these people express themselves through cosplay -- the fan-centric practice of dressing up as fictional characters -- and take great pride in their imaginative creations.
"But there's no beating about the bush, " he added, choosing his puns carefully.
Here, then, puns seem to serve a purpose beyond the merely frivolous - to impart shades of meaning in an economical fashion, perhaps, or to render lessons and concepts more vivid and memorable to listeners.
Such a high (sorry, I promise not to try any more puns) price makes that further issuance easier for the company certainly.
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Now, "there are lots of little cottages with names and lots of puns, " says Bert Lippincott, reference librarian at the Newport Historical Society.
Splinter (the noble super-rat) and Shredder (the Darth Vader-like villain) are back, along with a barrage of puns and oddball exclamations.
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In the mold of Rushdie, Ghosh (The Circle of Reason), Sealy (The Trotter-Nama) and Tharoor (The Great Indian Novel) tried to write capacious first novels, overbrimming with characters, conceits, puns and magical happenings.
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