Add to ORKGIn my semi-definitive but now tragically out-of-print spoonerism book Cruel and Unusual Puns, I spoke somewhat disparagingly of a familiar type of the children\u27s riddle. Example: What\u27s the difference between a church bell and a burglar? One peals from the steeple: the other steals from the people
Since childhood, I have indulged a perverse fascination with spoonerisms, chaismus, and other forms ...
In the May 1993 Word Ways, Kickshaws editor David Morice asked Have you every run across any senten...
A Ham Gram is an American-style pun-anagram crossword puzzle. Each clue sentence (of nine words or l...
To study the pun in depth is much like dissecting a butterfly. Once the scalpel is applied, the beau...
By far the most popular form of word play is the pun. Linguists who prefer big words call his paron...
One of my favorite varieties of spoonerism is the narrative form, in which a setup is followed by a ...
In our previous episode (Word Ways, August 2002), we examined a new crop of transposition puns accom...
Scoffing at puns is a conditioned reflex, and through the centuries groan-ups have aimed a steady ba...
In his excellent book on formula jokes, Jokes, Paul Dickson comments that What\u27s the Difference? ...
Perhaps you know somebody (and that somebody could be you!) who occasionally says pascetti or spaghe...
In the style of edifice Wrecks (Bullwinkle). Mousey Dung (Kliban), You rippa dese, you menna d...
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to provide the common phrases or words that the fol...
Another Pun Quiz. The misdefinitions usually also hint at the actual meanings, as in cryptic crosswo...
Yet another misdefinition pun quiz. Numbers in parentheses are the letters in the answer; (4|4) is a...
Each August, cartoonist Jim Siergey and I collaborate on a collection of illustrated spoonerisms for...
Since childhood, I have indulged a perverse fascination with spoonerisms, chaismus, and other forms ...
In the May 1993 Word Ways, Kickshaws editor David Morice asked Have you every run across any senten...
A Ham Gram is an American-style pun-anagram crossword puzzle. Each clue sentence (of nine words or l...
To study the pun in depth is much like dissecting a butterfly. Once the scalpel is applied, the beau...
By far the most popular form of word play is the pun. Linguists who prefer big words call his paron...
One of my favorite varieties of spoonerism is the narrative form, in which a setup is followed by a ...
In our previous episode (Word Ways, August 2002), we examined a new crop of transposition puns accom...
Scoffing at puns is a conditioned reflex, and through the centuries groan-ups have aimed a steady ba...
In his excellent book on formula jokes, Jokes, Paul Dickson comments that What\u27s the Difference? ...
Perhaps you know somebody (and that somebody could be you!) who occasionally says pascetti or spaghe...
In the style of edifice Wrecks (Bullwinkle). Mousey Dung (Kliban), You rippa dese, you menna d...
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to provide the common phrases or words that the fol...
Another Pun Quiz. The misdefinitions usually also hint at the actual meanings, as in cryptic crosswo...
Yet another misdefinition pun quiz. Numbers in parentheses are the letters in the answer; (4|4) is a...
Each August, cartoonist Jim Siergey and I collaborate on a collection of illustrated spoonerisms for...
Since childhood, I have indulged a perverse fascination with spoonerisms, chaismus, and other forms ...
In the May 1993 Word Ways, Kickshaws editor David Morice asked Have you every run across any senten...
A Ham Gram is an American-style pun-anagram crossword puzzle. Each clue sentence (of nine words or l...