"The pun is mightier than the sword." — James Joyce in ???
"As different as York from Leeds" — James Joyce in Finnegans Wake, a play on "As different as chalk from cheese".
"He that would pun, would pick a pocket" —Alexander Pope, punster
"Blunt and I made atrocious puns. I believe, indeed, that Miss Blunt herself made a little punkin, as I called it" —Henry James
"Pun (n.): the lowest form of humour" —Samuel Johnson, lexicographer
"Puns are the last refuge of the witless." —another way of stating the above
"…but the height of wit." —common rebuttal to the above
"A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself. — Doug Larson
"A bun is the lowest form of wheat" —Anon.
"The eleventh pun always gets a laugh, even if no pun in ten did." —Anon.
"Heralds don't pun; they cant." SCA heralds' expression
"Immanuel doesn't pun; he Kant."
"Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted." —Fred Allen
"The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability." — Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia,1849
"A good pun is its own reword." — Anon.
"Two-thirds of a pun is P.U." — Anon.
Quotes from Wikipedia
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Nuts to you! As the Irish man said, I will be Dublin my efforts...
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- Sorry your thread was derailed, REB
- re:Thread Removed from space (n/t)
- You mean the Grondine balls?
- These are not impact condensates
- I heard that they were going to be named after Dr. Schweaty (n/t)
- No, they aren't, and no, you were not... (n/t)
- Tiny, dessicated, and never touched by a human....
- Grodine bowls? What's his average? (n/t)
- LOL (n/t)
- I look forward to the next press release about thr RAT grinding away 'Grondine's balls'
- uhhh, R.L., that reads Grondine: Balls!, not Grondine's balls (n/t)
- Watch it....
- re: Spirit finds blueberries?
- Used to find those along train tracks