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LANGUAGE HUMOR AT ITS FINEST
Making yourself more proficient in English need not be a drag. You can actually speed up the learning process and make it fun by generously lacing it with humor—but preferably the best that the English language can offer.
In this new section, apart from giving a fixed slot to our weekly “In a Lighter Vein” pop-out humor piece in the Forum homepage, we have put together the finest of those weekly humor pop-ups since the Forum started. The best of them—collected from various sources on the web and sent in by friends—are all here, posted in the Forum under the following headings: Wordplay, On the Job, Student and School Life, and Miscellany.
So if you missed any of the best of the Forum’s weekly humor pop-ups, you can enjoy and savor them again and again here—and better still, share them with your friends!
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Ambiguous Headlines
(From The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker)
Children’s Stool Great for Use in Garden
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Stud Tires Out
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Stiff Opposition to Casketless Funeral Plan
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Drunk Gets Nine Months in Violin Case
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Iraqi Head Seeks Arms
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Queen Mary Having Bottom Scraped
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Columnist Gets Urologist in Trouble with His Peers
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New Housing For Elderly Not Yet Dead
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New Missouri U. Chancellor Expects Little Sex
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12 On Their Way to Cruise Among Dead in Plane Crash
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N.J. Judge to Rule on Nude Beach
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Chou Remains Cremated
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Chinese Apeman Dated
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Hershey Bars Protest
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Reagan Wins On Budget, But More Lies Ahead
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Deer Kill 130,000
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Complaints About NBA Referees Growing Ugly
Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim
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Man Eating Piranha Mistakenly Sold As Pet Fish
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Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant
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Something went wrong in jet crash, experts say
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Police begin campaign to run down jaywalkers
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Safety Experts say school bus passengers should be belted
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Survivor of Siamese twins joins parents
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Farmer Bill dies in house
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Is there a ring of debris around Uranus?
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Prostitutes appeal to Pope
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Panda mating fails; Veterinarian takes over
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Soviet virgin lands short of goal again
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British left waffles on Falkland Islands
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Eye drops off shelf
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Teacher strikes idle kids
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Shot off woman’s leg helps Nicklaus to 66
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Enraged cow injures farmer with ax
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Plane too close to ground, crash probe told
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Miners refuse to work after death
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Stolen painting found by tree
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Two soviet ships collide, one dies
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2 sisters reunited after 18 years in checkout counter
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Killer sentenced to die for second time in 10 years
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Never withhold herpes infection from loved one
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Drunken drivers paid $1000 in ‘84
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If strike isn’t settled quickly, it may last a while
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Enfiels couple slain; Police suspect homicide
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And:
Two cars were reported stolen by the Groveton police yesterday.
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We will sell gasoline to anyone in a glass container.
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