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THE LOUNGE
The Lounge is the free-talk section of the Forum. You can post anything here about any topic outside English grammar and usage. Wide-ranging discussions and debates will be allowed in the Lounge subject only to the condition that the subjects are not unlawful, obscene, vulgar, sexually-oriented, hateful, and threatening. As in the Forum’s sections on English grammar and usage, we expect discussants to keep the Lounge a vibrant venue for relevant, healthy, and civilized discussions, not impertinent, angry, or violent ones.
So if you have any non-grammar thought or idea you’d like to share, make the Lounge the sounding board for it now! Let your fellow Forum members help you germinate the seed of that idea if it’s a good one—or terminate it if it turns out to be otherwise.
26 Marvelous Puns to Rave About
Forum member Ben Sanchez recently sent me e-mail to call attention to this marvelous collection of 26 puns, gushing that “Whoever put these together loves language!” No matter that I remember posting some of the puns in The Lounge before, I have to agree with Ben’s appraisal wholeheartedly, and I think so will you!
To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
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When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate.
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A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.
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When the smog lifts in Los Angeles , U.C.L.A.
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The professor discovered that her theory of earthquakes was on shaky ground.
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The batteries were given out free of charge.
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A dentist and a manicurist married. They fought tooth and nail.
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A will is a dead giveaway.
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If you don’t pay your exorcist you can get repossessed.
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With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.
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Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I’ll show you A-flat miner.
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You are stuck with your debt if you can’t budge it.
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Local Area Network in Australia : The LAN down under.
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A boiled egg is hard to beat.
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When you’ve seen one shopping center you’ve seen a mall.
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Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
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Did you hear about the fellow whose whole left side was cut off? He’s all right now.
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If you take a laptop computer for a run you could jog your memory.
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A bicycle can’t stand alone; it is two tired.
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In a democracy it’s your vote that counts; in feudalism, it’s your Count that votes.
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When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
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The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.
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He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
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Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
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When she saw her first strands of grey hair, she thought she’d dye.
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Acupuncture: a jab well done.
—From a pun collection in the Board of Wisdom website
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