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- Author's Defense - Claims that Jonathan Swift's love of wordplay and languages is fertile ground for Sanskritic wordplay in Gulliver's Travels, including the fact that Gulliver gave permission for readers to "adjust" the story.
geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/defense.html
- Bad Puns Merchandise - Corny puns on t-shirts and mugs, featuring items taken from the BadPuns.com website.
www.cafeshops.com/cp/store.aspx?s=badpuns
- BadPuns.com - Site for puns, spoonerisms, and other wordplays. Also includes a collection of punny cartoons, plus links and webrings.
www.badpuns.com
- Beggar's Opera and its Sanskrit Puns - Offers linguistical evidence that John Gay's classic contains wordplay based on the ancient Hindu language.
geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/bo.html
- Big Puns - Covers family, law, cows, mathematics and conmen. Offers a free humor newsletter and links.
bigpuns.com
- Boovietoons - A series of cartoons punning various movies of the past.
boovietoons.com/index2.htm
- Borg Puns - Daffynitions of "Borg" words.
people.zeelandnet.nl/picard/humor/bestborg.htm
- Cartoon Captions - A series of captionless cartoons. Fill in an answer, then see those supplied by Professor Zounds.
www.profzounds.com/pun1.html
- Chet Meek's Page of Puns - Wide-ranging list of puns and wordplay, many of which are rhetorical in nature. Gladly accepts submissions from viewers.
internet.ocii.com/~cmeek/puns.htm
- Commentary on Puns - James Merrill's overview on punning.
www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/merrill/puns.htm
- Corny Puns - Wordplay about St. Patty, sports, pizza, holidays and other forms of pun-ishment.
cornypuns.com/puns
- ESL Puns - Examples of wordplay for those learning English as a second language.
www.texaschapbookpress.com/magellanslog16/eslpuns.htm
- Examples of Tropes in Puns - Technical analysis of paranomasia, onomatopoeia, antanaclasis and syllepsis.
humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/Groupings/OF%20WORDPLAY.HTM
- Finnish puns - Examples of Finnish wordplay translated into English.
www.helsinki.fi/~korppi/engvitsi.html
- Fish Puns - Wordplay based on already-existing song titles, with fish as the basic theme.
www.jimrothermel.com/FishJokes.htm
- Foreign Puns - Wordplay from a competition wherein competitors change one letter in a familiar non-English phrase and redefine it.
www.dnai.com/~alderete/humor/norm/punny.html
- Gulliver's Travels and its Sanskrit Puns - Demonstrates wordplay by Jonathan Swift based on Sanskrit.
geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/puns.html
- Hamlet's Puns - Paradoxes in Shakespeare's play with annotated index.
www.clicknotes.com/hamlet/Pap.html
- Haw Haw Puns - Wordplay involving William Tell, Mary Poppins, Frankenstein, Transylvania, origin of gravity and doctors, plus fifty more.
hawhawjokes.com/puns
- Homonyms Can Be "Punny" - Humor with educational value, designed primarily for kids.
www.kamalii.k12.hi.us/EBC2000/puns_1.htm
- Hot Crossed Puns - Example: "Why won't melons elope in Las Vegas? They cantaloupe."
www.braverman.org/Jokes/J8EEPuns.asp
- Ike Speak - View of and commentary on the world of puns.
www.frii.com/~parrot/ike/puns.html
- International Save The Puns Foundation - Accepts contributions. Has pun of the day, Punster of the Year, links, and bookshelf.
www.punpunpun.com
- Irish Puns - Includes puns with a definitely Irish flavor. Also proverbs, blessings and prayers. Submissions accepted.
www.luquette.org/inspire/irish_blessings.htm#Puns
- JardMail Puns - Punning with a British flavor.
www.jardmail.co.uk/puns
- Jest for Pun - Covers Murphy's Laws, bumper stickers, Punfucious, pick-up lines plus other groaners and one-liners.
geocities.com/gunjansaraf
- Jokish Puns - Plays on foreign affairs, cats and names. Includes some puns involving foreign words.
virtual.oltronics.net/~phma/puns.html
- Lowest Form of Wit - Commentary on puns, involving Freud, Jesus and playwrights. Links.
puzzles.about.com/library/weekly/aa000609.htm
- MacScouter Puns - Wordplay on Dick Whittington's cat, psychics, Beethoven, witch doctors and more.
www.macscouter.com/Stories/ShaggyShorts.html
- Name Puns - Example: If Yoko Ono married Sonny Bono, she'd be Yoko Ono Bono.
www.jokes2go.com/lists/list50.html
- Once a Pun a Time - Series of drawings by Robert Paschell showing puns like "Semiconductor" and "Delusions of Gander".
www.web2u.com/puns
- Periodic Table Puns - A test requiring using the imagination. Requests submissions.
sciencespot.net/Media/elempnsansw.pdf
- Pick-up Puns - Musically-oriented wordplay with modestly sexual overtones.
www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/92q3/muspun.html
- Planet Mike Puns - Covers monkey cloning, Gandhi, beer, flunking English and more.
planetmike.com/jokes/puns
- Prose as Deadly Torture - Collection of puns designed to cause pain. Accepts submissions.
www.duke.edu/~saw1/stories.html
- Pun of the Day - Archive of puns in categories such as food, transportation, families, education, work and more. Plus a one-liner pun every week day.
www.punoftheday.com
- Punch Puns - Historical commentary on this famous British magazine's punning in 1841-2. Contains punnish lithographs as examples.
www.britannia.com/travel/betts/g2.html
- Pundemonium - Math, history, literature, names, politics, music, religion, science and technology all get punned. Submissions accepted. Links.
pundemonium.com
- Pundit Picks Prime Puns - "Best Puns of 1995" as chosen by The International Save the Pun Foundation.
Http://www.qtime.com/~curt/Humor/pun1.html
- Puns and Groaners - Distorts numerous words and phrases.
www.ahajokes.com/funny_puns.html
- Puns for the ESL/EFL Classroom - Designed to help teachers of English as a Second Language. Also covers misuse of English. Requests submissions.
iteslj.org/c/jokes-puns.html
- Puns, Puns and More Puns - Plays on Chaucer, Philip III, fungus, Rudolph the Reindeer plus 150+ more.
www.cog.brown.edu/brochure/people/duchon/humor/puns.html
- Puntrivia - Example: What do you call a chicken crossing the road? Poultry in motion.
www.funtrivia.com/jokes/puns.html
- Retarded Puns - Includes a list of punny book titles.
www.yuksrus.com/PUNS.HTML
- Richard Lederer's Verbivore - Examples of his works, analyses of language and links. Invites email and questions on the matter.
pw1.netcom.com/~rlederer/index.htm
- Ringing Praise - Puns with a "bell" theme and other subjects.
www.jjonline.com/microSites/ringing/handbellPuns.php
- Salad Speak - Numerous puns based on food.
www.saladspeak.com
- Shaggy Pun Test - Involves taking a test about 100+ corruptions of phrases. Submissions are accepted.
www.smart.net/~wisdom/humor/puntest.html
- Snap Puns - Distorted definitions plus punnish wordplay.
funnysnaps.com/pun.html
- Some Bad Puns - Attacks boll weevils, fish, chess, neutrons and even puns themselves, to name a few.
www.johnpmarshall.com/laugh/badpuns.asp
- Star Wars Puns - Han Solo, Princess Leia, Ewoks, the Phantom Menace et al get the treatment.
www.accessatlanta.com/community/groups/haha/Star_Wars_Puns.html
- Steve Brooks Puns - The six-time winner of the O. Henry Pun-off World Championship offers "Inhale to the Chief", "Tex-Mexexistentialism" and "Lincoln's Texasburg Address".
www.stevebrooks.net/puns.htm
- Surrealistic Visual Puns - Students' artistic creations from an exhibition: "Once in a Blue Moon", "Flying Saucer", and "Ants in Your Pants" and more
www.eril.net/gallery/intro.asp?exb=1011
- Symbolic Puns - Essay on visual punning and the use of symbols representing multiple mental associations.
digitalpersuasion.cti.dtu.dk/VR-visualpun.html
- Tea and Buns/Puns - Whimsical wordplay on life by various women.
www.vanewomen.co.uk/puns.html
- That's So Punny - Cartoons depicting puns. Other humor involved.
www.thatssopunny.com
- The Absolutely Useless Dictionary - Contains a collection of word definitions sorted alphabetically.
www.workinghumor.com/dictionary
- The Atrium - A technical, literary-oriented string of letters from viewers commenting on puns in classical Latin works.
atrium-media.com/goldenthreads/latinpuns.html
- The Foolish Dictionary - The online edition of the classic Gideon Wurdz book.
www.aaaugh.com/dictionary
- The Pun FAQtory - Covers the history and styling of paronomasia - the art of the pun. The unofficial FAQ for the UseNet newsgroup alt.humor.puns.
www.irregardless.net/punster/puns.html
- Visual Brain Puns - Drawings illustrating punny expressions.
www.languagewrangler.com/article1070.html
- Visual Pun Pieces - Pictures of ceramic models constructed to depict a pun.
polymerjungle.com/oth04.htm
- Visual Puns - Try to guess a word or phrase represented by an image.
chesterfield.k12.va.us/Schools/Providence_MS/vpun.htm
- Visual Puzzle Puns - Involves graphics depicting phrases and cliches.
www.rwmarketing.com/News/VisPun.html
- Web English Teacher - Although designed primarily to be instructional, these puns can also be appreciated by all.
www.webenglishteacher.com/fun.html
- Yahoo! Groups: Puns-of-the-Day - A group of 180+ punsters who swap puns. Seeks new members.
groups.yahoo.com/group/puns-of-the-day
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