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Unread 05-09-2001, 09:23 AM
ChrisW ChrisW is offline
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Well, I know you're supposed to groan at a pun, but when they're funny I laugh. I had to laugh at this one.

I've been plagued my whole life by those curmudgeons who claim that "Punning is the lowest form of wit."

I was delighted a few years ago to learn Oscar Wilde's rejoinder to this sort of charge:

"That's funny -- I thought cliche was..."
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