This ia a pun cascade from P.U.N.Y.
Playboy Founder Hugh Hefner Engaged to 24-Year-Old
The 84-year-old announces his engagement to model Crystal
Harris on Twitter.
The above – seriously! – is from today’s news.
I can guess what wedding gifts they’ll exchange: She’ll give
him an Erector set, and he’ll give her a do-it-yourself kit.
Charles Wukash
A bunny thing happened on the way to the nursing home.
Gary Hallock
I thought young gal would play boy, man shun.
Chris … Read the rest...
http://shaggy-dogs.briancombs.net/current-events-interage-marriage/
A pun cascade perpetrated to PUNY.
The NY Times indicates that an increase in the number of vasectomies correlates with the recessions.
I guess in this economy, all of us have had to cut some things out.
Alan
I am quite distressed by the levity on this topic; it cuts me to the quick.
Joseph Harris
Male sterilization makes a vast difference for the better. If you don’t see the pun, you need to Google the subject and graze … Read the rest...
http://shaggy-dogs.briancombs.net/signs-of-the-times/
This was a pun cascade on P.U.N.Y.
The big news recently is the Iowa caucuses. Supposedly, LBJ didn’t have much use for caucuses and once said that the difference between a caucus and a cactus was the following: With a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.
Charles W.
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I always figured a “caw-cuss” was the noise a crow makes when he’s really pissed.
Gary Hallock
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And the noise an angry bovine makes is a cow-cuss.
Jim Ertner… Read the rest...
http://shaggy-dogs.briancombs.net/iowa-caucuses/
By Alan B. Combs. A nice, gentle offering went south as a PUNY cascade.
An unpopular, overly-studious, socially inept young fellow nevertheless did have one thing going for him. He never seemed to get colds or infections no matter what infectious microorganism was going around. He became the subject of several medical studies, therefore.
After much investigation, it was concluded that most pathogens had a very hard time finding their way around in the dork.
If some of those pathogens … Read the rest...
http://shaggy-dogs.briancombs.net/disease-resistant/
The following is a limerick cascade from the limericks and haiku listserv.
A problem seems always to hound us.
In the elevator, there to confound us.
So, how can this be?
It’s not me, you see!
Just why does that flatus surround us?
Alan B. Combs
You’ve clearly not run out of gas.
My nose knows the difference, alas.
I won’t make a comment.
I’ll try not to vomit.
I guess that I’ll just let it pass.
Cyn MacGregor
Young … Read the rest...
http://shaggy-dogs.briancombs.net/elevator-problem/
The original tale is by Alan B. Combs. It led to a pun cascade on PUNY.
Folk-monsters are a part of the underculture in many countries. Fear of bogeymen, vampires, werewolves, dervishes, zombies, and other such unfriendly life forms (speaking loosely) is part of being human. I have recently become familiar with a fairly well-described Hispanic entity. This fearsome creature is a modern affliction, combining the very worst aspects of military helicopters with a peculiar abuse of goats. Found mostly … Read the rest...
http://shaggy-dogs.briancombs.net/hispanic-folk-monsters/
Wherein begins a pun cascade started by Bob Dvorak and other participants on the PUNY listserv.
Kathleen was a wreck. She’d just caught Jim fooling around (again) with another girl. What to do? What to do?
Making up her mind, she looked up “Witches” in the Yellow Pages and made an appointment to see Ms. Serry.
When she arrived she was even more agitated than before. Although the receptionist offered her a seat, some tea, and something to read, Kathleen … Read the rest...
http://shaggy-dogs.briancombs.net/which-story/
From Joseph Harris via: PUNY , the author is not known.
John Day was an elegant man about town. He had his routine and because his father was wealthy, and then some, that routine consisted mainly of doing nothing with elegance and style. But, as happens with even the most dedicated bachelor he reached the age where he decided an elegant marriage would be a good thing. His father had been waiting for this day for a long time because … Read the rest...
http://shaggy-dogs.briancombs.net/man-about-town/
by Alan B. Combs. After posting this on PUNY (Punsters United Nearly Yearly), the following cascade resulted. I wrote the first version of this tale nearly twenty years ago.
Not that I can do it, but I routinely skim the medical literature to try to keep up professionally. Several years back, I came across an article in the New England Journal of Medicine called “Salmonellosis associated with marijuana: a multistate outbreak traced by plasmid fingerprinting”, (New England Journal of Medicine … Read the rest...
http://shaggy-dogs.briancombs.net/contamination/