Lazarus
3rd July 2002, 21:36
When did people start punning?
If you tossed a grenade into a French kitchen, would you get
Linoleum Blownapart? Do backwards poets write inverse? Do hungry
clocks go back four seconds? Are your calendar’s days numbered?
When puns are outlawed, will only outlaws have puns?
Will this ever stop? Yes, right now. But who pushed the “start”
button in the first place? Believe it or not, in the beginning,
or pretty close to it, was the pun. It’s no coincidence that the
name Adam comes from ancient Hebrew for both man and earth – from
dust we come . . .. And The New Testament’s, “Thou art Peter and
on this rock I will build my church.” (Matthew 16:1), is a pun,
but only if you know Greek and realize that Peter is “Petros” and
rock, “petra.”
People have always been fascinated by their power to make magic
with language. The bounty of nature might come from the gods, but
wordplay could be home-groan.
Source used: www.vocabula.com
If you tossed a grenade into a French kitchen, would you get
Linoleum Blownapart? Do backwards poets write inverse? Do hungry
clocks go back four seconds? Are your calendar’s days numbered?
When puns are outlawed, will only outlaws have puns?
Will this ever stop? Yes, right now. But who pushed the “start”
button in the first place? Believe it or not, in the beginning,
or pretty close to it, was the pun. It’s no coincidence that the
name Adam comes from ancient Hebrew for both man and earth – from
dust we come . . .. And The New Testament’s, “Thou art Peter and
on this rock I will build my church.” (Matthew 16:1), is a pun,
but only if you know Greek and realize that Peter is “Petros” and
rock, “petra.”
People have always been fascinated by their power to make magic
with language. The bounty of nature might come from the gods, but
wordplay could be home-groan.
Source used: www.vocabula.com