The A – Z Challenge; E: Every Pun’s A Winner

(Instead of doing a differently named subject based on the letter for the day, I’m using the letters of the alphabet as hierarchical headings only.)

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 23800 – 1239

My Dear and Much Loved Audience, Especially The Pun Lovers,
Anyone who has been around me or been reading me for any length of time knows I love puns. And memes. And Memes with puns. As my friend and commenter, Tony (I wrote about him here) said the other day, “You and your puns!”

Here’s the haps:

If I were ever punished
For every little pun I shed
I’d hie me to a punny shed
and there I’d hang my punnish head

In case there was ever any question, like, maybe you’ve never been here before and we’ve never met some way or the other, I not only love puns but I love to tell them in elaborate, shaggy-dog style stories. Of course, I love to make a quick, off-the-cuff, witty rejoinder as well but those aggravate Mrs. Herb sometimes as she has to get the ink out. A number of entries over this next month will be in the form of puns in both original story format and old-as-the-hills format and a goodly number of memes.

This post also features quotes I’ve found concerning puns interspersed throughout. Please enjoy thyself whilst I get me to a punnery. Even though I haven’t been bard from doing Shakespearean puns I think I have enough for a separate entry. Shakespeare did many puns and double-entendres and was kind of a dirty old man a lot of times. All of these memes may not meet the technical definition of a pun but these are some of my favorites.

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It was so quiet, you could hear a pun drop. Arthur Baer

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A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself. Doug Larson

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Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them. Edgar Allan Poe

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Puns are the highest form of literature. Alfred Hitchcock

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Always say ‘no pun intended’ to draw attention to the intended pun Teju Cole

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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits. Victor Hugo

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The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. Edgar Allan Poe

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