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by Gary Blake (Author)
Everyone loves wordplay This collection of more than eight hundred quips and pun-filled anecdotes will have your friends in stitches Classics and new inventions fill these pages with humor and wit. Divided into chapters according to theme--animals, celebrities, careers, food, and so on--there's a pun for every occasion Author Gary Blake dares you not to snicker at his contrivances:
- Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
- Davy Crockett had three ears. A left ear, a right ear, and a wild frontier.
- A backwards poet writes inverse.
- Santa's helpers are subordinate Clauses.
- Like tavern owners, ballet dancers make most of their money at the barre.
- Horses in the movies only have bit parts.
- Why does the Pope travel so much? Because he's a roamin' Catholic.
- Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
- A Freudian slip is when you say one thing and mean your mother.
- Eve was the first person to eat herself out of house and home.
- I used to work in a blanket factory, but the company folded.
- The calendar thief only got twelve months.
- A great gift or coffee table book, there's no time like the present to order a copy of Does the Name Pavlov Ring a Bell? for the word-twisting, pun-loving humorist in your life.
Author Biography
Gary Blake is director of the Communication Workshop, a company that presents writing workshops at Fortune 500 companies across the US. He lives in Great Neck, New York.
Number of Pages: 272
Dimensions: 0.9 x 7.1 x 4.9 IN
Publication Date: January 02, 2018
