"People who make puns are like wanton boys who put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight-train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism." Oliver Wendell Holmes, who liked to pun
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Replying to @zinoman
All my dad and I do whenever I call him is try to out-pun each other. And they’re all god-awful. Occasionally, though, he’ll be concise: “What do you call a Chinese health shop? All Wok and Yoplait.” Did I mention that he’s 99?
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Replying to @thedonz5
That sounds like a good father-son relationship. And for 99, that's killer.
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Replying to @zinoman
One might think that. That pun’s from the mid-‘80s.
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