Of course they had more chains on him than Scrooge saw on Marley's ghost, but he could have kicked up dickens if he'd wanted. That's a pun, son.
Of course they had more chains on him than Scrooge saw on Marley's ghost, but he could have kicked up dickens if he'd wanted. That's a pun, son.
This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.
Once you have all those emotional aspects in line and you're in sync with the other person, then you find out what it really is and how great it can be, ... putting the cart before the horse, and you can probably make a pun out of that, as well.
Proud of his learning (just enough to quote), He revell'd in his Ciceronian glory With memory excellent to get by rote, With wit to hatch a pun or tell a story, Graced with some merit, and with more effrontery, 'His country's pride,' he came down to
The irony of the pot calling the kettle black. Where's the pun in that
If we execute, we will, excuse the pun, Eclipse the Microsoft environment. Microsoft is worried about the passion of what open-source software means to developers.
When sound came, we found this out--we found this out from our own pictures--that sound didn't bother us at all. There was only one thing I wanted at all times, and insisted on that you go ahead and talk in the most natural way, in your situations. Don't give me puns. Don't give me jokes. No wisecracks.
LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.
Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
A pun is the lowest form of humor - when you don't think of it first
A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
Everyone in business is going to tell you that competition is good for business. Its without a doubt that those banks are choosing to locate here for a reason. What their market studies are saying is, theres enough banking interest still in northwest Arkansas to pardon the pun spread the wealth.
I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
It was so quiet, you could hear a pun drop.
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
If I were punished for every pun I shed, there would not be left a puny shed of my punnish head
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
Why would they be soliciting the opinion of a pun writer about this
People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks.
Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.
Putting your hands in the earth is very grounding, if you'll excuse the pun.
The one thing that did stand out in my memory was the fact that he had a well documented association with Heroin. Growing up with a somewhat myopic view of the world, I could not understand how it was that people could put a drug user on such a high pedestal (If you will pardon the pun).
Without a doubt, poker is driving U.S. tourists to Las Vegas, Atlantic City and river boats. A safer bet, pun intended, is to invest in actual casinos.
It looks like fish tank rocks. Chocolate rocks ... If you catch the pun.
People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
We see the health care sector percolating, or at the risk of quoting a pun, we see a heartbeat in the sector.
Coincidences are spiritual puns.
SCARABEE, n. The same as scarabaeus.He fell by his own hand Beneath the great oak tree. He'd traveled in a foreign land. He tried to make her understand The dance that's called the Saraband, But he called it Scarabee. He had called it so through an afternoon, And she, the light of his harem if so might be, Had smiled and said naught. O the body was fair to see, All frosted there in the shine o' the moon -- Dead for a Scarabee And a recollection that came too late. O Fate They buried him where he lay, He sleeps awaiting the Day, In state, And two Possible Puns, moon-eyed and wan, Gloom over the grave and then move on. Dead for a Scarabee --Fernando Tapple
There are judges at all levels who may face a situation where there is a potential conflict of interest, either a situation where an attorney presenting a case before them has given a large sum of money or where the judge, as a candidate, has made statements implying favor or bias for one side of a case over the other. Many judges will remove themselves from a case if a conflict is apparent, but there are no official standards. A conflict that one judge might step aside for, another judge might not see as a problem. Rather than a standard set of guidelines for everyone to use it really is, forgive the pun, a judgment call.
(A new operating system) just opens up -- sorry to use a pun -- new windows of opportunity of what people can do with their PC.
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
Puns are a form of humor with words.
With wit to hatch a pun or tell a story.
I don't mean to make a pun, but justice delayed is justice denied in this case.
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