Hi, Sue, you are right and I didn't think of that. Thanks. I wish I were good with plays on words, but I'm happy there are people with the verbal facility to do that. O would that were me! Regards, Kim. _____ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of siss52 Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 8:10 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence Correctly, I would call these examples "play on words" rather than puns. Just my thoughts. Whatever, they are very clever and fun!! Sue S. ----- Original Message ----- From: Kim Friedman <mailto:kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 8:08 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence Hi, Bob and everyone else who delights in the slightly absurd, I've heard songs which manipulate words in an interesting way. I really don't know how to describe this. Say you have a song using foods, fish, or animals to say something. Here's an example of what I mean: "Gorilla of my dreams, you're a cheetah it seems, Oh, why are you lion to me?" or "I'm not floundering around and I thank cod I never smelt anything awful. I was herring all manner of chough, so I left for the halibut." I admire this kind of thing. Do we call this extensive punning? Regards, Kim. _____ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 6:23 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence No thanks Sue. However, ahem, here's another winner that I thought was pretty funny: Darnell knew he was getting hung out to dry when the D.A. made him come clean by airing other people's dirty laundry; the plea deal was a new wrinkle and there were still issues to iron out, but he hoped it would all come out in the wash - otherwise he had folded like a cheap suit for nothing. Lynn Lamousin Baton Rouge, LA Bob - "Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time." ----- Original Message ----- From: siss52 <mailto:siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 6:35 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence <lol> That kid could have written the sentence while reading Nineteen Minutes, after which playing Twenty Questions while dining at Twenty-One!! What fun!! Any more takers? Sue S. ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob <mailto:rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 4:43 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence <lol> that sentence could have been written by a fourteen-year-old in fifteen minutes singing "sixteen candles" while juggling seventeen penguins humming the opening bars of the eighteen twelve overture. Bob - "Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time." ----- Original Message ----- From: Carrie Karnos <mailto:ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx> To: Bookshare Vol Group <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 9:22 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] My favorite Bulwer-Lytton sentence About halfway through this sentence, I start screaming, "Make it stop! Make it stop!" For me, this is THE worst opening line ever: She wasn't really my type, a hard-looking but untalented reporter from the local cat box liner, but the first second that the third-rate representative of the fourth estate cracked open a new fifth of old Scotch, my sixth sense said seventh heaven was as close as an eighth note from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, so, nervous as a tenth grader drowning in eleventh-hour cramming for a physics exam, I swept her into my longing arms, and, humming "The Twelfth of Never," I got lucky on Friday the thirteenth. --Wm. W. "Buddy" Ocheltree, Port Townsend, Washington (1993 Winner) See what I mean?? Carrie _____ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.13.5/2219 - Release Date: 07/05/09 05:53:00 _____ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.13.5/2219 - Release Date: 07/05/09 05:53:00