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    Pun and Games: Jokes, Riddles, Daffynitions, Tairy Fales, Rhymes, and More Word Play for Kids
    Pun and Games: Jokes, Riddles, Daffynitions, Tairy Fales, Rhymes, and More Word Play for Kids
    Pun and Games: Jokes, Riddles, Daffynitions, Tairy Fales, Rhymes, and More Word Play for Kids
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    Pun and Games: Jokes, Riddles, Daffynitions, Tairy Fales, Rhymes, and More Word Play for Kids

    By Richard Lederer and Dave Morice

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    Introduces the wacky world of wordplay with puns, spoonerisms, games of word substitution, and more.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChicago Review Press
    Release dateJun 1, 1996
    ISBN9781613746288
    Pun and Games: Jokes, Riddles, Daffynitions, Tairy Fales, Rhymes, and More Word Play for Kids
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    Richard Lederer

    Richard Lederer is the author of more than 30 books about language, history, and humor, including his best-selling Anguished English series and his current book, Presidential Trivia. He has been profiled in magazines as diverse as The New Yorker, People, and the National Enquirer and frequently appears on radio as a commentator on language. Dr. Lederer's syndicated column, "Looking at Language," appears in newspapers and magazines throughout the United States. He has been named International Punster of the Year and Toastmasters International's Golden Gavel winner.

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      Book preview

      Pun and Games - Richard Lederer

      1 It’s a Punderful Life

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      Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he?

      Language is fun. Everyone who speaks and listens and reads and writes is involved with the natural playfulness of language. Much of that play takes the form of punning, as in this verse, which has fun with the two meanings of the word weather and its similarity in sound to whether:

      Whether the weather is good,

      Or whether the weather is not;

      Whether the weather is cold,

      Or whether the weather is hot;

      We’ll weather the weather,

      Whatever the weather,

      Whether we like it or not!

      You have been speaking, hearing, and reading puns most of your life. When you were very young, you probably chanted songs like

      Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear.

      Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.

      Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he?

      and

      A sailor went to C-C-C,

      To see what he could C-C-C,

      But all that he could C-C-C

      Was the bottom of a great blue C-C-C.

      These verses are children’s first attempts to put into memorable form their pleasure in discovering that the same sound can suggest two or three different meanings—Wuzzy and was he; C, sea, and see.

      Words and sounds that spark forth two or more meanings are called puns. A pun has been defined as a play upon words, a play upun words, and a prey upon words.

      Unless you were raised as a hermit (or, if you are a boy, a hismit), you probably recognize many of these traditional riddles:

      What’s black and white and red (read) all over?

      A newspaper.

      What did the letter say to the stamp?

      Stick with me and we’ll go places.

      What kind of shoes are made from banana skins?

      Slippers.

      What kind of rooms have no walls?

      Mushrooms.

      How do you know when it’s raining cats and dogs?

      When you step in a poodle.

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      How do you know when it’s raining cats and dogs?

      When is a door not a door?

      When it’s ajar.

      What happened to the boy who drank 8 Cokes?

      He burped 7-Up.

      Pun Fun

      Here’s a game riddled with punch lines. Guess the punch lines to these popular Silly Billy jokes. You’ll find the answers to all questions in this book at the end of each chapter.

      1. Why did Silly Billy throw the clock out the window?

      He wanted to see time ______.

      2. Why did Silly Billy throw the butter out the window?

      He wanted to see butter ______.

      3. Why did Silly Billy take a ladder to the ball park?

      He wanted to see the ______ play.

      4. Why did Silly Billy tiptoe past the medicine cabinet?

      He didn’t want to wake up the ______ pills.

      5. Why did Silly Billy jump off the Empire State Building?

      He wanted to make a ______ ______ on Broadway.

      Now, without any clues, try to guess the answers to these elephant jokes:

      6. Where do elephants store their clothes?

      7. How do you make an elephant float?

      8. What happens to a grape when an elephant steps on it?

      9. How can you stop an elephant from charging?

      10. Who are the two most famous elephant singers?

      Here are fifteen posters and placards that have appeared around the world. They are all signs of our times,

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