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The fame Thing happens in Eloquence; the Senfe of the Crowd is the true Standard of Eloquence; - yet from the Time Oratory became an Art, it has been feldom free from the falfe Beauties of the Learned in Oratory* The true Beauties of Mufic affect every Ear that is not corrupted by Art, but the Mafters are often led, by a falle Emulation of dif - playing a Mafter-hand, to introduce what may pro-* - perly enough be called the Puns and Quibbles of Mufic 5 thefe they at prefent cultivate with great Care and Perfeverance, while they neglect the wild
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The only effect that all this knowledge of puns has had besides enabling me to dominate the Math Puns category during my sole appearance on Jeopardy! has been to make me socially unpresentable.
IBM's Watson wins! First Jeopardy! -- next, bad puns? Alexandra Petri 2011
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Puns and other flights of language fancy play an important role in the book as a whole -- Vankin, a lover of language since early childhood, says, "I had a lot of fun with the 'urban slanguage' in the book."
Michael Sigman: Girls Gone Graphic: 'Poseurs' Parses LA Nightlife Michael Sigman 2011
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Puns, slapstick, political satire, all might provoke a chuckle or a roar.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011
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However, Marisa Cardoni's view on the sacked Paulo Sousa 'having Leicester think about' (Friday's Fiver letters) caused me physical pain and lowered my IQ at least 20 points, so I would like us to get behind an all new Fiver Stop Bad Puns campaign - Noble Francis.
Another humiliating defeat Sean Ingle 2010
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Puns are like your personal romantic history - painful, and annoying to everyone around you if you try to work them into conversation.
IBM's Watson wins! First Jeopardy! -- next, bad puns? Alexandra Petri 2011
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Puns, slapstick, political satire, all might provoke a chuckle or a roar.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011
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This entry was posted on August 22, 2009 at 5: 22 pm and is filed under Puns.
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Puns, slapstick, political satire, all might provoke a chuckle or a roar.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011
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Q.E.D. Puns are the feeblest species of humor because they are ephemeral: whatever comic force they possess never outlasts the split second it takes to resolve the semantic confusion.
Punditry 2009
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