ccc (11/20/82)
To all and sundry:
I am submitting this on behalf of a good friend who is doing research
on puns. If anyone has any half-puns (example below), please *mail*
them to me. *DO NOT* submit to the net, as there are bound to be
repetitions. If interest warrants, I will digestify and post.
Example half-puns: "United Skates of America"
"Transporting gulls across a staid lion for
immortal porpoises"
"His job was maintaining the SNOBOL"
By definition, a half-pun is one in which a target word is substituted
without word division. "If you go to a bakery after an explosion you
will find the Napoleons blown apart" won't work. Neither will perfect
puns, such as "Bare with me".
Clayton Elwell
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