This section is just dedicated to puns, because dads love puns.
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Despite its title, not all clues in Puns & Anagrams are puns or anagrams.
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Intricate Japanese puns become intricate English puns, and that's bloody difficult to do, trust me.
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Their 102 posts are a sustained performance worthy of Saul Steinberg; even the puns have puns.
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Today's puzzle is drawing from a small subset, the homophonic puns, which "treat homonyms like synonyms," to quote the linguist Walter Redfern (who wrote the book on puns, or I should say a book called "Puns").
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Puns, visual puns, are an important part of political cartoons, and they're an important part of the way dreams work.
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If the theme involves puns, we'd be unlikely to run more than one other puzzle during the same week with puns.
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Even when it got weird, like when the topic of meat-based puns got introduced—"Meat-based puns are usually flirting," one user offered.
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Australian king of puns Simon Gilmore is better known as the guy who annoys his girlfriend at Ikea with endless, incredibly lame and incredibly funny puns.
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The Channel 5 forecaster has previously filmed weather updates with Star Wars puns and Batman v Superman puns, and now she's turned her attention to everyone's favourite wizard.
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SIMON WESTFOLDVictoria, Australia I was surprised that your review of a book on puns characterised ovine puns as "egg-specially eggs-cruciating" ("The quip and the dread", August 12th).
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Sartorial puns make up our theme today: Mr. Kravis and Mr. Agard take common phrases and turn them into puns about items that people in certain occupations might wear.
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This reviewer disregards any pun that requires a hyphen (ovicular puns are egg-specially eggs-cruciating) and believes that puns must have a set-up (the more elaborate the better).
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Fireworks (and puns) erupted out of the Rose Bowl Stadium.
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JG: The language of your films is full of puns.
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I'm Carl Azuz, dogging you with puns for CNN 10.
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Like these puns themselves, the pictures just kind of snowball.
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I promise to ease up on the autumnal puns. Maybe.
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It wasn't long before the goat puns started rolling in.
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He lives mostly in London and loves dogs and puns.
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JF: No you will not bring these shoe puns back.
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For the most part, jokes and puns are never planned.
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Apparently, this was because puns cause "cultural and linguistic chaos".
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The cousins looked like twins in their matching pigtail puns.
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Well, pretty seriously until they see an opportunity for puns.
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Spotted by Travel + Leisure, the thread went wild with puns.
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Puns are widely held in low esteem, a justifiable consideration.
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I'm Carl Azuz, always on the hunt for meteor puns.
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Dads tend to homogenize into puns, barbecue and cargo shorts.
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The names are mostly puns about employees' identities and Uber.
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Stanton wasn't the only one in the mood for puns.
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Not all of the Russian artist's illustrations are visual puns.
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We're glad you picked CNN 10 for news and puns.
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The calendar days are festively decorated and have chili puns.
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Puns are often employed when discussing artist Nicole Eisenman's work.
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By far the most despised type of joke was puns.
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It's a date to brush off your best Caesar puns.
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Finally, one more clue that's unique to Puns and Anagrams.
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I'm more refined and am trying to avoid dog puns.
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There are usually visual puns as well in the PandA.
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"Lots of newspapers rely on bad puns," Ms. Schneider said.
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Puns are considered kind of the lowest form of humor.
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Yes, we had to plant some gardening puns in there.
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The race also lends itself to a variety of puns.
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Well step aside, inferior breakfast venues, because Lenwich restaurant has only gone and come up with the pun to end all puns: Okay I don't always like puns but this one got me good!
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Or, to use this puzzle as an example, the theme involves puns, so we'd be unlikely to run more than one other puzzle during the same week with puns, if only for variety's sake.
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SUNDAY VARIETY PUZZLE COLUMN — Honestly, to know Puns and Anagrams is to love Puns and Anagrams — this occasional offering is a delicious snack that should always gratify and never frustrate to the point of enmity.
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The hilarious picture went viral and the puns came rolling in.
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You know, April, our new robot reporter, is really into puns.
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How will it interpret jokes, puns and other figures of speech?
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That's about all the puns I'm dropping today on CNN 10.
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The food puns and borderline-pornographic illustrations are an added bonus.
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I mean, you couldn't get any more puns into that video.
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Others feature hideous color schemes and ridiculous puns on their sites.
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Skorts. How many puns can you say referring to one garment?
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The replies are #udderly worth reading just for the bad puns.
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Pink herself also had puns to share in her Instagram caption.
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Are puns not allowed on twitter, or is AK a taboo?
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Once I've thoroughly annoyed him with tool puns, I head home.
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ANYWAY, what made me think of all that was ice puns!
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Please submit all your puns for inspection in the comments section!
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So maybe, this one time, we'll forgive him the S3XY puns.
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Azoulay's visual puns play with the power of flowers and stones.
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Phil feels that these puns can get a bit brass sometimes.
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If you are tired of puns, are you tired of life?
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Puns are delightful because they are at once deep and shallow.
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Considering my penchant for puns, I'm surprised it took this long!
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Not surprisingly, a PandA relies more heavily on puns and anagrams.
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His use of puns is a way to avoid becoming didactic.
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Yes, some of it involves silly puns or pop culture references.
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There's a love ballad composed entirely of bad puns about police.
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"The puns and illuminati jokes have been pretty funny," Hoshi said.
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And please drop off your worst indie puns in the comments.
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Mr. Berry offers us seven familiar items turned into nautical puns.
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Others jumped in to deliver a gouda deal of cheese puns.
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The rest of the brands mostly just relied on puns. Why?
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Finally, sprinkle in some puns and you've got... Falling Inn Love!
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Wordplay THURSDAY PUZZLE — Who's in the mood for some puns today?
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Even the man's puns, like them or not, have market value.
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Attempting to smooth things over, the singer cracks a few cat puns.
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Nor do people so often come up with puns on the spot.
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And I considered Arnold Schwarzenegger's truly awful puns the height of wit.
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Their literal job is to come up with witty puns and punchlines.
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Hansson swears a lot, tells repeated ex-girlfriend jokes, and puns incessantly.
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From ages 7 to 11, they begin to understand puns and satire.
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The Center's Twitter account couldn't help but join in on the puns.
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The pic spurred an influx of memes, puns and social media shares.
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Naturally, there were puns and cute jokes, because how could anyone resist?
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Expect plenty of puns, props, and easily escapable do-or-die situations.
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Puns are accidental echoes, random likenesses thrown out by our lexical cosmos.
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Bits Get ready for the puns about teenagers, technology and big money.
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Maybe you should just forget the technology and focus on the puns.
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There were plenty of puns (a "little toast" was kind of amusing).
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So, what does Mr. Firestone think of the stylebook's entry on puns?
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K., but just let me read you a few of these puns.
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I even had elephant puns ready for this year — I was ready!
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As you're peacefully anagramming, Mr. Ries slips in an array of puns.
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What came back from them was an escalating series of bad puns.
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There are plenty of great Batman puns being left in the comments.
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Iwan said local newspapers often use headline puns playing on timepiece imagery.
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For as nice and neat as word scrambles are, puns are crazy.
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The buttons also feature six famous women writers and some sick puns.
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Puns make up a smaller but still important percentage of the clues.
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DM: You gotta break through and sometimes Kylie Minogue puns just won't do.
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Joke Twitter tends to be fairly PG, often elevated dad jokes and puns.
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There were three: All that and we managed 1.7 jokes and 2.3 puns.
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And the other condoms in their line actually use image-based puns successfully.
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Get those baking puns off the back burner, because things are heating up.
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Normally the innuendo is restricted to cheeky asides and puns from the presenters.
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But don't worry: the puns are still here, and they're in full force.
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We have lots of fun posing for pictures and making bad apple puns.
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We do the Sunday crossword, which is long and full of terrible puns.
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When it comes to BoJack's love of wordplay, puns are only the beginning.
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Okay, no more dog puns — but there are plenty of adorable pups, ahead.
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For these two digital assistants, dirty jokes mean puns – and lots of them.
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Witticisms and puns would flow, along with Shakespeare quotes—Stan loved the classics.
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His political songs were full of puns, satire and mugging to the crowd.
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And there were plenty more pirate-related puns where that one came from.
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Plenty of fans praised Styles' monologue on Twitter, even with its cheesy puns.
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The concept here is simple: fresh-baked bread puns made using celebrity names.
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Naturally, the picture was memed, and puns flew left and right on Twitter.
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While others offered new puns for the siblings to use next Mother's Day.
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Needless to say, they were extremely...artistic when it came to NSFW puns.
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Ma's English name and Tencent's Chinese name apparently come from puns about horses.
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A lot of the challenge and fun was that the clues were puns.
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Albeit mercifully without the awful puns of previous games, for the most part.
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When the salad dressing bottle of metaphors runs dry, he reaches for puns.
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The funniest joke on stage yesterday wasn't intentional like Federighi's puns and japes.
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Their arrival created a social media sensation, with goat-themed puns invading Twitter.
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There are only two types of clues, puns and — wait for it — anagrams.
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There were puns aplenty, all of them winners, and some really fabulous entrances.
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Civilization has survived, even to the point of sustaining groaningly bad academic puns.
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Let me take you through it: It opens, of course, with some puns.
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Some people say they come for the pies and stay for the puns.
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Even in poverty, they carouse at their place and crack endless bad puns.
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Over dinner, they would recall, he would make them groan with bad puns.
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Warning: This article contains some spoilers about "Captain Marvel," but no cat puns.
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The added layer here is that our constructors have turned them into puns.
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Puns and specific dishes can and should be adjusted to your local district.
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They are clued as puns, and the result is a wacky exercise regimen.
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Use this opportunity to exercise your best coffee-related puns on the mug.
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It's not necessarily comedy, but more like puns in achievements or mission names.
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Apparently not, if the editors feel that the puns are fresh and funny.
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The lyrics and dialogue lean toward shameless double-entendres and smutty schoolboy puns.
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLE — Mel Taub returns with a fun Puns and Anagrams puzzle.
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"It goes in big on gross-out humor, crass puns and general raunchiness."
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A lot of these less fleshed-out ideas are just built around puns.
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A question for readers: You've made it to the end (and past the puns).
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I'm Carl Azuz and you know I've lost my marbles shooting puns like this.
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It's a great tool for learning English or seeing exactly what the puns are.
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Fox News&apos Chad Pergram contributed to this report, and its Taylor Swift puns.
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But for the time being, at least, there's still plenty of opportunity for puns.
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And more importantly, can bring on the "Mamma mia, here we go again" puns?
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But long story short, skorts are just as versatile as all their many puns.
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And is it too soon to bust out another round of "consciously uncoupling" puns?
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It's an absurd study on habits of perception, a series of playful visual puns.
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Of course while making a whole lot of pee pee puns along the way.
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And to all of you who've said my puns are trash -- well, there's proof.
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The "splatting" puns are meant to be the result of physically flipping the page.
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That puzzle was full of puns on famous songs, but updated for baby boomers.
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According to the short's Indiegogo page, the film boasts 13 tasty food-related puns.
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The chase drew torrents of posts on social media, many featuring groan-inducing puns.
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If emoji encourage visual puns and whimsical juxtapositions, GIFs inspire a sharp curatorial sensibility.
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Here are five bad cat puns to help you learn more about the movie.
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VARIETY PUZZLE — I'm happy to see Mark Diehl's byline under Puns and Anagrams again.
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And with a name like Destiny, the groan-worthy headline puns practically write themselves.
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There are some obvious differences between a cryptic crossword and a Puns and Anagrams.
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Puns are infinite, one hopes, as language evolves and we grow (hopefully?) ever cleverer.
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I was relieved to see a pretty accessible list of terms in the puns.
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Logos The teams' names, with their frequent puns on the word "three," divided fans.
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But he was also fond of puns and ambiguities in words (as in movement).
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Mr. Obama has long papered over the awkwardness with a speech peppered with puns.
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Cluing expertise is about more than just getting the difficulty right and brandishing puns.
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His verbal puns and visual juxtapositions function as disruptions that must be reflected upon.
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It's so built into the language that you can make casual puns with it.
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Though clever hashtags are the most popular, "not everyone loves puns," Mr. Shelley said.
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Puns are not for everyone, but would I mind being labeled an insufferable punster?
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I've been influenced by cartoon strips and dreadful puns, but only if it is kind.
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Even lawyers are settling spats over imagery, or hop puns like Hopscotch and Bitter End.
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Thank your taking 10 for CNN 10, with puns that make you howl or growl.
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CNN 10 has more news and horrible puns, short (INAUDIBLE) glace and frosty looks tomorrow.
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Ever a lover of dog puns, the United States press gave her the nickname Muttnick.
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And some silly puns, for good measure: "They "Bearly" made it lol," said another viewer.
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Best Poop Gag: Sam insisting they should have been sending poop puns this whole time.
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LONDON — When it comes to puns, UK weather presenter Sian Welby is a total machine.
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"Away With Words", a faintly anthropological examination of puns and the people who make them.
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It is not just the quality of puns that is divisive but also the definition.
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Somehow those last two counted as two different ice puns in Batman & Robin, I think?
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Their weed puns are more honest than all your favorite lyrics about Satan and society.
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But for the rest of us, Oscar night is full of opportunities for delicious puns.
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Well London-based illustrator Joe Stone, the man behind the puns, has made a return.
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Baseball-loving girls with a knack for puns are in a league of their own.
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They made crude puns and innuendos about death and the arousing smell of their guns.
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Focus called it "the greatest zombie cast ever disassembled," and all puns aside, they're right.
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An explanation is forthcoming, but first the puns: Hello, is it zzzs you're looking for?
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The comments section is filled with inspiring messages like "Be the tomato," and cleaver puns.
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We even spent some time workshopping polyjuice sperm puns (thats polyjizz if you were wondering).
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Many of my recent puzzles, including this collaboration with Senator Joe Donnelly, are themed puns.
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I enjoyed many of the puns in the fill immensely: THUMB and TAT were laughers.
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"Pun" focuses on linguistic play and, specifically, Raymond Roussel, whose poems employed puns and repetitions.
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The case has gone Kelvin-scale cold, with hope yielding to despair and terrible puns.
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One more thing it's likely to be remembered for: Some top-notch animal visual puns.
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The episode was filled with flying puns and windmill jokes and… Peter's parents' vow renewal?
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His season premiere was a three-hour marathon of virginity-themed puns, stunts, and questions.
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At 29A, "'S ¢'" was one of a few auditory puns today; ESS + CENTS became ESSENCE.
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Herman's Mame couldn't have pattered a list of cannibal puns any more than Sondheim's Mrs.
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLE — Today we have a special treat for the Puns and Anagrams puzzle.
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TUESDAY PUZZLE — Some people groan over puns and other kinds of wordplay, but not me.
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Fiction writers and graphic novelists can reinvent and reimagine using humour, words, and visual puns.
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Predictably, the New York tabloids wasted no time in laying out their primo Tebow headline puns.
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An appreciation of food puns basically determines a person's character, sense of humor and trustworthiness. 15.
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Or when she slogged through her seventh turkey pardoning in 2015, groaning at dad's Thanksgiving puns?
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"He made corny jokes and puns, but he was really quick on his feet," Clarke says.
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In Strange Girls, the mixed-media artist pokes fun at twisted gender dynamics through visual puns.
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TRANSCRIPT CARL AZUZ, CNN 210 ANCHOR: With news explained and puns unashamed, this is CNN 210.
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Adult fans of anthropomorphized puns, excuses to look hot, and—fresh off the presses this year!
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Whether racist caricatures or making sexual assault puns, here are 10 costumes to avoid this Halloween.
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Like a true Redditor, Bone dressed for Halloween like ObiWan Kenboni, because Star Wars, and puns.
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They make this thing go, I just sit back and count zombie deaths and make puns.
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If you're inclined to puns, you might say medical samples are the lifeblood of hospital systems.
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Another important question: How many awful legal puns can this lawyer stomach before running away screaming?
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Type in whatever you want — adorable, sweet, profoundly pornographic — and Kittify translate it into cat puns.
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Twelve-year-olds are just discovering the world's hidden meanings: They're the perfect audience for puns.
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Plus, the study is more than a great excuse to make some excellent "dancing machine" puns.
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If you love puns, Halloween offers the best opportunity to let your silly antics run wild.
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Many more wore t-shirts or running shirts with Star Wars puns or classic movie images.
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Come for the terrible puns, stay for the stuff that makes you a more informed fan.
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Pineapples on his shirt and puns in his heart, Gavin was angry and visible this episode.
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Follow Alex Zaragoza, who would like a job writing wine puns for Marshall's merchandise, on Twitter .
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This one has a lot of good jokes and puns, and it's not unpleasant to watch.
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She's also seemingly titled the works What a Racket, truly crowning her the Master of Puns.
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLE — Today we have another Puns and Anagrams crossword (or "PandA") from Mel Taub.
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You're left with little to do but admire Ms. Wohl's clever connections and end-time puns.
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Mr. Haight offers us an eclectic but full meal, based on food puns on common phrases.
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There weren't a lot of visual puns today, but the two I noticed were really good.
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These are real lines from movies, but they are puns on the jobs in the clues.
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You can read more about Puns and Anagrams clue types in Will Shortz's article in January.
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Certainly, the event is stuffed with potential for humor and, in Mr. Trump's case, edgy puns.
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Mr. Haight offers us a set of five common phrases that are reimagined as moviemaking puns.
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"Masc" — not, I think, AIDS-related, but a sustained study of gay erotics — began with puns.
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By embracing all kinds of puns and the fracturing of language, he formally accomplishes two things.
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" Groth said that its dark humor and visual puns "really did influence a generation of comics.
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Called "Flicks and Tricks," it contained thematic puns that would become a signature of her work.
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" The source adds, "He's always used puns to express himself over his 30 years [in the business].
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And thanks, former contestants, for sharing your many feelings about breasts, America, and your terrible doula puns.
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And "If Jerry dies we riot" has already become a meme (in addition to Jerry's excellent puns).
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How was I supposed to brainstorm pithy "pins and needles" puns for her acupuncture services after that?
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It's as central to our lives as chip shops and slow busses, tabloid puns and seaside promenades.
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That's the stance of a guy who knows how to camp and makes a lot of puns.
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The campaign, prone to frequently using puns, has labeled the trip as the "Cruzin' to Caucus" tour.
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Turns out, Davidson and Grande were in the computer lab the whole time, making Harry Potter puns.
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Behind the buff exterior of this dude running for president lies a man shamelessly obsessed with puns.
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If all that we accomplish is lambo memes and immature puns about "sharting", then I WILL leave.
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Pornhub got all of the Hanukkah puns out of its system in its new holiday ad. Oy!
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Personally, I Cannes-not wait both the drama and all the Cannes puns I'm about to deliver.
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It has a large vocabulary and a rich stock of homophones from which puns can be made.
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Washington Examiner Reporter Kelly Cohen notes the jokes on Twitter: the number of weed puns in sen.
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Jokes with puns, jokes with mock movie trailers and jokes taken from the sides of Popsicle sticks.
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First, there were the brain-bleedingly bad puns of Aladdick and now, The Loin King is here.
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Others couldn't help but make puns based on the purple horse on the cover of the remix.
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While the computer was the perfect opportunity for puns, the internet prove how supportive they can be.
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Much like hot tubs, tears, and Chris Harrison, puns are an inextricable part of the Bachelor institution.
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You can also download the Kittify Google Chrome extension, translating everything on your page into cat puns.
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That contrast, between genteel loveliness and the earthy human body, is where Chaucer's puns get their magic.
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The same report alleged that Guy Ritchie, who directed the film, wrote soccer puns for Beckham's scenes.
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Spotting a unique opportunity, the Hamilton police department jumped into action with their best and brightest...puns.
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Remembering that the puzzle's answers are only puns or anagrams, let's try anagramming "Vera's": How about RAVES?
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Because you don't have to learn the conventions of cryptic cluing, Puns and Anagrams are more accessible.
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This puzzle, featuring U.S. capital cities as puns, sat in my stack of ideas for many years.
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As Will noted regarding a previous puzzle of mine, puns with Q's are a lot of fun.
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There are occasional bad puns and tortured metaphors, as well as periodic digressions that seem like padding.
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There are six mangled homophonic puns in this puzzle, at 23A, 35A, 48A, 69A, 82A and 99A.
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I suspect that a solver's opinion of puns may affect his or her opinion of this puzzle.
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It's called "Time Out" and so much of David's work for me is about language and puns.
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"Expect turbulence," Peter shrugs at the end, after what was probably 20 minutes of brainstorming pilot puns.
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In this case it was puns on the titles of books that had been made into movies.
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People want a lot of puns with knives, like, 'Staying on the cutting edge' or 'Stay sharp.
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Every dad has his own charming quality, like being a master of puns or always calling you 'bud.
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"Bahamian viagra" — are allegedly an aphrodisiac, and Becca uses this opportunity to exhaust any and all sexual puns.
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The limo arrivals are always a whirlwind of terrible puns and props, and this season was no exception.
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And what better way to do that than with some corny puns about turkeys named Mac and Cheese?
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From slap puns to turkey-handprint decorations to an online countdown clock, Marshall tortured Barney throughout the episode.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads New York-based artist Melissa Stern is a connoisseur of visual puns.
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" —Briggitte Suastegui "I love books about other books, and this one is full of literary puns, allusions, etc.
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Less Markle, less puns, less royal imagery inexplicably in the graphics, but still the same sassy one-liners.
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Laverne Cox wasn't keeping her appreciation to herself, even coming up with some clever puns to celebrate Janet.
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If you can raise your core body temperature by laughing at hokey puns, that one will do it.
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The Cleveland Clinic followed up the social media announcement with a news release that stole all the puns.
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"Left to himself, he wanders off into scrapes, puns and odium," says ConservativeHome, a website for the faithful.
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And including bad puns or other forms of wordplay actually makes a paper less likely to be shared.
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While making countless puns about Swedish pop music, fans moaned that the change was confusing, distracting and pointless.
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They went out for dinner, made a lot of puns about tacos, talked about music and made out.
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Mention it to any hockey fan, and they'll probably start giggling and making a bunch of inappropriate puns.
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A brilliant Girl Scout knows her customers very well — what sells better than shirtless superheroes and clever puns?
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There's puns, at least, and a smiling starfish who gazes into the sky without regard for anything else.
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You can also download the Kittify Google Chrome extension, translating everything on your page into cat puns. Meowza!
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Puns are part of the careless abundance of creation, the delicious surplus of life, and, therefore, fundamentally joyful.
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In the end, her love of puns and the opportunity to one-up a rude comment, won out.
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I eight sum pi dish, available on Uncommon Goods, $45Do they love puns, math equations, and/or pie?
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Plenty of you took the challenge to another level, with more visual puns than I even thought possible.
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I spend most my time writing fiddling with the balance on events and stuffing puns into flavor text.
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For example, take this fantastic joke from the System To Augment Non-speaker's Dialogue Using Puns (STANDUP) software.
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Later, he explored lyrics from Sondheim's "Into the Woods" for puns and hidden double meanings ("wood" and "would").
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Now you go try to break down those clues and solve a Puns and Anagram puzzle for yourself.
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And while her lyrics are full of clever French puns, even resolute Anglophones will find much to enjoy.
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Stephen Colbert couldn't pass up the opportunity to make a few lowbrow puns based on the reported crimes.
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Gurba is addicted to terrible puns, and they get worse and more numerous as the book goes on.
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The theme is puns on common theatrical phrases, and a bit of bonus material makes its own encore.
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But our unilateral fixation runs a bit deeper than the cheeky masturbation puns of America's finest children's programming.
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CNN 10 is back, and we're ready to kick off a new season of news, features and puns.
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Mike: I think, as a general rule, I am against TV shows that incorporate puns into the title.
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Get ready for a lot of flying puns and metaphors, because pilot Peter Weber is the 2020 Bachelor.
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There is a middle ground between these cryptic puzzles and regular crosswords, called a "Puns and Anagrams" puzzle.
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The sketch was rife with puns from Beyoncé songs as the four entertainers talked nonsense to each other.
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Brits of all ages and genders had assembled, dressed in red, and waving banners emblazoned with period puns.
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Responses to the post didn't disappoint: Hundreds of users responded with their own potty-mouthed jokes and puns.
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Every few feet, Wildman Brill stopped and pointed out another plant, adding puns and jokes whenever he could.
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The O.T.D.ers, newly alive in a world of puns and innuendo, love a junior-high-grade sex joke.
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The tweets make clever use of puns, hashtags, as well as memes like 'Be Like Bill' to get attention.
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The LP contained just as many requisite pop puns, and struck a perfect balance of inspiring and somber lyrics.
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A kind idea -- and though it's time for us to head out, I'm sure we'll bobble more puns Wednesday.
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The rest of his Twitter feed — in addition to great puns — includes critical comments about government officials, including Democrats.
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From witty puns to tasteful illustrations, we've rounded up 10 of our favorite cards for getting your message across.
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I tried a reversal of the puns, where HOAR FROST becomes HORROR FROST, MERE MORTALS becomes MIRROR MORTALS, etc.
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By the end of my ride, I saw more puns on weed-related words than I thought were possible.
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Perhaps his most memorable visit is to a dildo factory, which inevitably results in a panoply of penis puns.
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With Valentine's Day right around the corner, here are a few of Etsy's best puns for your loved ones.
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The categories are sometimes titled straightforwardly (Lakes and Rivers), but usually involve corny puns (A Matter of Wife & Death).
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The happy couple also got to indulge Williams' love of tacos (and puns) while shopping for bikes last week.
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These are all newt puns; they reference politician Newt Gingrich, physicist Sir Isaac Newton and singer Wayne Newton. 7.
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The Atlanta Braves organist Matthew Kaminski has developed a reputation as a certifiable badass, with a penchant for puns.
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Here are the worst puns from the Bachelorette premiere (or the best, if you're into that kind of thing).
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The radium puns come early and they come strong in the new movie Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge.
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Mr. Fleming and Ms. Michaels put together homophones, make phrases out of them and them clue them as puns.
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She had a gift for translating what appeared untranslatable: The Asterix books, for example, are rife with quirky puns.
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This is the Rosier who incinerated Syracuse and gamely helped the Hurricanes weather a late-game storm—weather puns!
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She puns with gusto, potently and unabashedly, until one begins reading double meanings, allusions and ulterior motives into everything.
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You can be a bit of a trickster, with a wry sense of humor and a love of puns.
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There were plenty, so I was able to make a Sunday puzzle and still have some puns left over.
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I built and filled a grid, only to realize that focusing the puns on jobs would be more interesting.
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The Champagne flutes have been clinked, the numerous vision-related puns made, and the post-NYE Gatorade dutifully chugged.
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It will come as no surprise to you that the clues consist of — wait for it — puns and anagrams.
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Today we're starting on a somber topic, so I'll hold off on our usual jokes and attempts at puns.
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However, the entries here are puns that are definitely clever enough to get picked up by the next founders.
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A changeable felt letter board is the perfect surface for displaying incredibly corny dog puns alongside a famous pooch.
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"He would enjoy puns, especially ones where people would just groan," said Don Fox, a longtime top agency official.
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It's made me think differently about Puns and Anagrams puzzles, much like your own thinking evolved over the years.
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Attia has a talent for verbal and visual puns, for linking seemingly disparate things and giving them new meanings.
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The aftermath of King's handiwork—yay, puns—looked like this: The Big Green lost to the Crimson, 25-22.
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Tom is the contractor with the deadpan delivery who suffered through all of Lorelai's puns while remodeling her house.
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In subtheme material news, Mr. Haight includes two long Down answers that are clued as puns on familiar phrases.
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So we discovered we had a mutual affection for puns that bordered on sort of torture to those around us.
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Throughout the mission, there are puns and references about wetting the bed and a mention of the yellow brick road.
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If these puns weren't Ugg-xactly what you had in mind, we'll have something else afoot tomorrow on CNN 10.
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"She's been making puns (bad ones and good ones) for as long as I can remember," Sasha said of Michelle.
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If the theme includes a particular kind of pun, for example, then all the puns should be of that kind.
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The business editor will be relieved of the need to remove some of this writer's questionable puns [much appreciated, ed.].
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She followed the film up with a hilarious hosting gig on Saturday Night Live, which included lots of cat puns.
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It's hard to describe A Ghost Story without using words like "haunting" and "spectral," terms that sound like bad puns.
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There are many puns that I will not do here so I'll simply say you should bump this shit now.
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While her Instagrams have always been brimming with puns and goofy captions, many believed this one took it too far.
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He replied with a long list of cheese/movie puns, and I had no doubt that we had a winner.
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We bantered back and forth with space puns while we waited, which is an important step you definitely shouldn't skip.
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Drenched in sweat and firing off glassblowing puns left and right, these artists labor over their creations with painstaking precision.
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And no matter the mode of writing, each text is rife with puns, laced with references, and encrusted with metaphors.
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Thank you for the best relationship, the best friendship and the best ride to the grocery store to make puns.
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But that doesn't mean you should shirk your passion for butts and burger puns, as some may suggest, this Halloween.
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After sending off the tweet, the window friends became excellent fodder for some Twitter owl puns: I don't blame you.
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Is that a bit of creative photoshopping, or does Siri actually know Game of Thrones well enough to drop puns?
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With 31 men climbing out of the limo, we knew we were in for more than a few terrible puns.
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Or, Phil likes puns and jungle cats and the collective bargaining agreement and using peyote on company time. Either/or.
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Or, my personal favorite, a cup of punlord versus someone who pretends to hate their puns but secretly loves them?
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Even if not many people understood what he was talking about, they groaned at his puns in a friendly way.
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They boast their prowess of wordplay, juggling clever puns and Mexican slang with Morrissey's rapier wit and wickedly dismal viewpoints.
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"It was really interesting stuff, about things like Chinese puns and the dominant patriarchal structures we live in," she recalls.
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His love of puns shone through his oeuvre and inspired me to try my hand at his own curious métier.
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Though he never lost his biting sense of humor, it turned dark, his witty puns becoming more sad than funny.
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They discussed — of course — the weather, said Mr. Lovitz, who then hurried home to scour the internet for weather puns.
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And he will use other visual puns to make new food that's playful, communicating his ideas deliciously, without scolding anyone.
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Ezersky and Walden do a bang-up job below explaining their theme: cheerful puns of phrases with flattering first parts.
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This puzzle's skeleton remained in my folder for years until 2017, when I finally fleshed it out (both puns intended).
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According to its website, Craftily Creative currently has 35 items available for purchase, with many featuring Halloweentown quotes and puns.
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The relationship between the dance and Ms. Rosen's projections is weaker, the correspondences or contrasts not much more than puns.
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When a truck carrying about 30 tonnes of cheese flips on a highway, people break out some really grating puns.
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Then there was a metric ton of ridiculous puns, many quite deadpan but thrilling to "get" (assuming you "got" them).
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While we are surprised by the 221k likes, we know we can always rely on #LibraryTwitter for some cheesy puns.
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LONDON — Are you a fan of cheeky puns and can't resist a bit of colourful language every now and then?
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At the very least, if you're my family, you get to enjoy cat puns on the drive to the theater.
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Expect more of the show's trademark mix of depression, joy, and animal puns as we head into the final stretch.
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Hall would grab at an idea, bludgeon it with deadpan puns, and land a coda that delightfully skewered its dimensions.
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For this strategy to work, it takes a sincere voice infused with just the right amount of puns and biting humor.
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You cheddar believe it, the bad puns are rolling after a truck carrying tonnes of cheese crashed on an Australian highway.
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This is what Makoto does best; he creates visual puns out of seemingly everyday objects, like this sofa covered in astroturf.
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They at once obstruct meaning and multiply it … Puns are about non-understanding and plural understanding, and understanding with unresolved contradictions.
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But it is starting its farewell arcs, and it is doing so with the show's signature balance of puns and pathos.
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It's a satirical paper, so Le Canard is packed with jokes and puns, most of which only make sense in French.
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René Goscinny, of Asterix, loved her puns round "old fruit" in "Asterix in Britain", wishing he had thought them up himself.
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"Aljamiado" by Renaud Garcia-Fons Because I like both bass and puns, here's my favorite acoustic bass player: Renaud Garcia-Fons.
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Photo by Mitchell Wojcik One of the best things about Pet Symmetry is their love of so-bad-they're-good puns.
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Naturally, they're meant to be sent with declarations of love, peppered with puns about death: Two of Saint Jo Flowers' offerings.
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I feel relaxed, and decide to chat with S. I love puns, and he piles them on me for an hour.
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It makes sense — it's too on-the-nose, too potentially corny and too much of an open call for fashion puns.
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Their unwavering support and encouragement of the contestants and their impressive glossary of baking puns are the soul of the show.
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Historical Surrealism is often remembered for outlandish images and visual puns, but it also attempted to levy a serious social critique.
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It has its missteps, but John Marston's story was not filled with gross-out puns, transphobic shock humor, or confused caricature.
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He jokes on Instagram that his rappers' Supreme hoodies are actually "Susheme," which sparked an avalanche of sushi puns on Twitter.
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" There is more gingham than you could possibly imagine, and plentiful puns like "I macramade you and I can macrabreak you.
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The final verdict: The terrible puns that you come up with about the new Vegas expansion team should stay in Vegas.
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We put together a round up of the best Beatles masturbation puns, which range from playful and goofy to downright raunchy.
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The puns are also quite good, and some are terse enough to make their theme entries a bit of a surprise.
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"When I was about 11, Oscar introduced me to the Puns and Anagrams feature in The New York Times," he said.
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Go over to Grand Rapids and walk around the hopping (beer puns are the best) city filled with breweries and startups.
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" (Puns, preferably drenched in sexual innuendo, are a favorite of Mr. Hardwick's.) "That, and reciting pi to the one-hundredth decimal.
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Her social media is peppered with bad puns, videos of her struggling to open cans, and riding toy horses in malls.
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She is really more of a self-professed "dad humor" aficionado — she laughs at farts, at dopey puns in store names.
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How Punderdome works: Contestants have about a minute to come up with as many puns about a broad topic as possible.
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As far as the puns went, there was a nice variety, and nothing unconquerable — having all the crosses helped, of course.
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The puns are really good, I think, and run from kinda simple to sorta crunchy, nothing too abstruse or too corny.
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As I cruised down the boulevard of this grid I greatly enjoyed the puns but didn't hit that many speed bumps.
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Complete with hot-dog puns and condiment-colored uniforms, it&aposs a unique job made for a specific group of applicants.
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PUNS AND ANAGRAMS — It's nice to see Mel Taub in this space again, for the first time in over a year!
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLE — It's time for a palate cleanser, and today's Puns and Anagrams puzzle by Mel Taub fits the bill.
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To be honest, we'd prefer the aviation puns to stop first, just because there have already been so many of them.
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Among late-night doughnut scarfers, it was Vanity Fair, Consumer Reports and National Geographic, all rolled (oh, the puns) into one.
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Then the music — "White Wedding," one of Mr. Idol's biggest hits from the 21s — faded out, allowing the puns to begin.
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The last three entries were the toughest, for me at least, and required somewhat more complex relettering to get the puns.
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If he has been, latterly, more of a prankster than anything else, wallowing in his own thematic puns — 1980s pop stars!
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I hadn't really learned how the Times puzzle worked yet: The recurring answers, the increasing difficulty, the puns and question marks.
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Dad was a reliable source of terrible puns for every occasion; and both he and Mom loved comedy based on wordplay.
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In their courtship scene, they trade bawdy puns like blows: PETRUCHIO: Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry.
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Being a fan of both hip-hop and puns in almost equal measure, I take affront to the lack of hip-hop based business puns here in the UK. For every Spruce Springclean, Brim Full of Rasher, or Only Foods and Sauces, there's only one Roots Manoeuvered (a tree surgeon in South London), which is frankly unacceptable.
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And just how many dating puns can viewers at home take over the course of two hours, give or take commercial breaks?
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By employing satire, visual puns, farce, absurdity, kitsch, and the bizarre, the artists included in the exhibition upend social and aesthetic conventions.
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Products are turned pink and adorned with feminist messages and brand names are changed up with puns as ways to boost sales.
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Getting puns together could be an up-Churchill battle and that's not the only deterrent for those who wouldn't have a blast.
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They're like little visual puns that might take a second to get, but hit you like a delightful surprise when you do.
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Dense, challenging, aphoristic and swarming with recondite allusions and puns, these novels display an authoritative grasp of a breathtaking range of subjects.
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Jeanette Paras is the creator of these painted caricatures, who she's dubbed RudyKin Giuliani and the Joker (sorry, no pumpkin puns here).
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The entertainment is primarily in the clues, which can either challenge your brain to unscramble the anagrams or snort at the puns.
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And today the Facebook AI Research team added to its portfolio with a paper bringing negotiation into the conversation (all puns intended).
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"Everything's just peachy," she wrote alongside the snap, before listing all of the puns she could think of to describe her outfit.
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Scott stepped in to help out with all the great, witty dog puns to really make Mowgli's accomplishments jump off the page.
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He mostly used it as an opportunity to sneak a whole load of movie-based cheese puns into the paper of record.
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When introducing a Medical Marijuana Research Bill, the Republican lawmaker did not shy away Wednesday from including weed puns in his statement.
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"Für Elise - Ludwig Van... Bieber," he captioned the photo, thus creating one of the best celebrity puns we've heard in a while.
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There's a reason that the most abundant writer in the language was so abundant in puns: words, like Bottom's dream, are bottomless.
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There were toasts with a crowd-pleasing (if prudently priced) malbec and puns riffing on "singular value decomposition" that elicited much mirth.
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A number of popular viral puns also sprung from the moment, including "The Audacity of Taupe," and a large number of memes.
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Wordplay THURSDAY PUZZLE — I've always said that if there are two things that go together particularly well, it's puns and European travel.
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Uber shifts into fifth -- just kidding, no bad driving puns here... Uber's self-driving trucks are doing some new stuff in Arizona.
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Bat-nipples and Arnold Schwarzenegger making outrageous puns are the least of this movie's problems ... well, the bat-nipples were pretty bad.
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Everybody knows the side eye is strictly reserved for booty calls (when the eggplant is just too forward) and making terrible puns.
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Mostly, though, I had a great time finding the ever-so-painful puns and then subjecting everyone where I work to them.
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I could see this clue being one of several involving gymnastics, or measurement puns, or even relationship endings, in a theme puzzle.
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Even if you pause the recording to discuss Juster's puns, listening at the 1.5x rate will satisfy your son's need for speed.
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So there was the lot of that, stuff like Carter USM, people using terrible puns, and making records that sound very scratchy.
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Suddenly, I was drowning in HP sex puns like "expelli-anus" and "expecto patro-cum" and maybe I was losing my mind.
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But no matter the topic, it tended to dwell on a trio of elements: controversy, sex and an abundance of bunny puns.
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In her case, we get a disjointed narrative of visual puns, sly criticisms and uncanny juxtapositions, most with a distinct feminist slant.
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Now, we get to the "Puns" part of the game, clues that are much more freewheeling and require a variety of approaches.
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It is a father's right to embarrass his teenage daughter (mostly with puns), but this is dad harassment of a higher order.
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Tuesdays and Wednesdays can have a little thematic playfulness, such as letter rearranging or puns, as well as a few harder words.
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As might be suggested by a cartoon about a humanoid kitchen tool, "SpongeBob SquarePants" is replete with visual gags and aquatic puns.
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And then there was Eunice -- who gave viewers a break from the plane-related puns and showed up wearing giant angel wings.
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The hosts Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman ("Parks and Recreation") return for a second delightful season of creative exploration and craft puns.
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Why we loved it: This network spin on "Sherlock Holmes" was crammed with puns and always throwing its characters into absurd situations.
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It's celebrated in display-name puns — Petty Boop, Petty Labelle, Petty Images — and circulated in animated GIFs cut from reality-TV shows.
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Because making that statement, taking that position, is gonna invite what is has invited, which is lots of attention, ridicule, puns, etc.
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I was promptly rejected (as a writer, my low-traffic Instagram account is filled mostly with dumb puns and self-deprecating candids).
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LONDON — There were puns, pressure and plenty of puff pastry as the Bake Off returned for the first of its special charity episodes.
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Miller holds his own against the insolent beer tap, and the pair launch into exchanging a steady stream of absurd jabs and puns.
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"A lot of cheese puns floated around, and Brie-oncé was the one everyone liked the most," creative director Brandy Klingelpuss told CNN.
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As a fat, Black, queer woman many of their stories, even the ones about sex, felt a little too vanilla — all puns intended.
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Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama dished out some final Thanksgiving puns Wednesday as he performed the ceremonial White House task of pardoning turkeys.
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The letter went down a storm on Reddit, where it quickly reached the front page and sparked an avalanche of snail-themed puns.
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And it was a terrific way to cap off eight years of terrible puns to go along with the silliest of presidential duties.
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Same goes for 'do your worst', 'come at me', 'have at it' or any puns like 'wurst' and particularly shite egg/bean jokes.
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But those who took over after communism collapsed in 1991 treated Soviet civilisation as a postmodernist playground, a source of caricatures and puns.
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The setup lends itself to a particular style of British humour: guests can make newsy quips and puns, and quick thinking is rewarded.
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But on Thursday, the campaign released their first ad staring Fiorina, in which she is forced to repeat Cruz's corny campaign puns. #3.
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Here's hoping Zeke and Ralph will inspire real suburban dads to embrace art and start creating things other than babies and bad puns.
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With Reg Fellows at the helm, Diamond Head were on borrowed time (enough puns yet?) and theirs was a career that never was.
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Of course, there's Pokémon, too—the names of each individual Pokémon are these carefully crafted puns, which—admittedly, sadly—don't always translate perfectly.
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Stacking up puns and situational ironies, Schiff finds it almost too easy to digress, fret and speculate, too hard to come to conclusions.
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The fourth season of the BBC's beloved baking competition finally comes to US shores this June for more trifle challenges and delightful puns.
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And in "Silver," the speech of Anna May Wong, the movie star, consists of bad puns, catchphrases and lines from her own films.
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You find the same type of wit in the code words and puns used today to evade censorship bots, or just for fun.
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The show features astute wordsmiths (including a crew of beloved regular punsters) spinning clever and very funny puns to a usually packed house.
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There are six clever puns that follow the same rule, scattered through today's across clues at 17A, 29A, 37A, 40A, 46A and 67A.
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I still have one that Bobby wrote for me in Terezín for my thirteenth birthday, filled with intricate (and untranslatable) puns and rhymes.
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It may be professional suicide to admit, but since having children, I often find myself making lame puns as well as poop jokes.
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I learned a couple of new words, got a very endearing bit of callitrichid trivia and enjoyed a couple of the goofier puns.
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A tea proprietor, a lover of puns and cats, in recent years very conservative-minded, and maybe just a flat out wild man.
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While the tone might occasionally tip too far toward puns and alliteration, it's the authors' friendly accessibility that makes these stories so memorable.
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The word "bare" in the title is a homonym of "bear," a nod to the Chinese tradition of playing with such aural puns.
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He applied a borscht belt delivery to sometimes risqué material, giddily showering audiences with confetti and pummeling them with puns and one-liners.
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While Sugimoto's photos can provoke serious philosophical introspection, the man himself is constantly cracking jokes, and he has a soft spot for puns.
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Every year, the Graff 7A Ranch in Hondo, Texas, hosts the South Texas Maize, a giant labyrinth of sorghum and seasonally appropriate puns.
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A career in burials and cremation also fires his poetic imagination — I'm sorry, but Lynch also savors puns about rigor mortis and cremation.
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They're all used as puns today; the italicized clue for each is just a reference to whoever would appropriately ask such a question.
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There were some very good puns (EGO as "Massage target, perhaps" made me chortle) and a couple of obscurities, for me at least.
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For me, the most compelling aspects of the book were those that used optical illusions and text puns like the Trump/Pence logo.
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There are some puns here because, with all due respect, the Norwegian vocabulary sounds, to my English ears, a bit squishy — like fish.
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It's got everything you want from a 20-minute porn parody: terrible acting, horrifying puns, pornography, and...biting commentary about free to play monetization.
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The country's economic and social prospects may have been troubled as they marched from Hyde Park to Parliament, but the puns were still numerous.
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The only bad thing about this news is that The People's Daily in China beat us to the Platonic ideal of bird puns. Heh.
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Don't worry, though: The feline character decided to go all out with the puns with a four-piece set of appropriate "cat-eye" shades.
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At this point, we're beyond conjuring up puns using Taylor Swift's lyrics, so let's cut straight to the point: Hiddleswift is likely no more.
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My fatigue is definitely setting in, but my friend — a master of puns — gets me laughing, and I get a second wind of energy.
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My dad is the master of dad jokes, so the card I got him is full of bad puns that I know he'll love.
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Some were similarly self-effacing, like SELLOUT, while others were godawful puns that started out as jokes before turning semi-serious in our desperation.
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As the years passed, Ministry was affiliated more with bad puns and Al Jourgensen's unhinged political commentary than any note of music they released.
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There are so many sex-related Aladdin puns out there, just waiting to be snatched up like a lamp in the Cave of Wonders.
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There will be a time in the future when everyone will be sick of "boring" puns in relation to Elon Musk's new Boring Company.
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Sian Welby spiced up her usual weather report earlier this week with a slew of puns and sly shout-outs to the DC world.
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It's a game about solving crimes and protecting the innocent, but also one filled with terrible puns and a hilarious, lovable cast of characters.
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In the world of puns, this can result in laughs (or eye rolls), but in other contexts, these nuances can have more complex implications.
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Give Puns and Anagrams a try; I think you'll find them to be a breath of fresh air after a week of crossword puzzles.
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The most creative signs repurposed memes, made puns, and melted the Earth, but they all shared the same sense of urgency for the planet.
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The first clue package (after way too many fruit and vegetable puns) included a shot of the Banana sleeping next to a cowboy hat.
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While many people said they were offended by the image, it also prompted whimsy, delight, a poem and more than a few bad puns.
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This issue of the paper within the paper is dedicated to comedy, and covers everything from puns and dad jokes to politics and pranks.
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I really adored the puns de nom today, like AMY and her Poehler vortex, and ELIAS ("Howe" he advanced the craft of sewing, right?).
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This was TV cookery stripped of the bullshit machismo, TV cookery that didn't rely on soggy bottom puns and excessive amounts of whipped cream.
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There are eight puns in this puzzle, six across and two down, that revolve around terms that have to do with a trafficky commute.
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They're obviously not meant to be soundalikes, but instead go as far as possible as puns, which makes them even funnier, in my opinion.
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After a few too many food puns, Taco said he used to be a hot head until he met the love of his life.
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As far as the puns and "schtick," let's look at the varieties, starting with some of the simpler ones and working to the complex.
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Several of Harris' famous pals commented their well wishes on the post — and some couldn't help but make a few puns along the way.
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You don't need to see the first "Nut Job" movie to follow the sequel's nonsensical plot and the script's preference for bottom-shelf puns.
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He explained that it was merely meant to be lighthearted, in the spirit of the Breitbark News Twitter feed that survives off canine puns.
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The document also reinforces the seriousness of the brand by encouraging references to Tesla&aposs aesthetic appeal and warning against copywriting tropes like puns.
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As the two sisters soaked up the sun together earlier this week, they also spent some quality time on a yacht — and making puns!
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Many of Amichai's references, puns, jokes, buried meanings—the creases of a culture, its age lines—are inevitably smoothed out of existence in translation.
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As far as construction, once we landed on a theme (comedians), it was not too difficult to come up with puns for comedians' names.
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Katherine wants so ferociously, and as a result puns so viciously, that she became one of Shakespeare's most indelible heroines apparently against Shakespeare's will.
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But she doesn't want payback, either, even though she'll always miss her artistic, dimple-cheeked sibling and his taste for puns, storytelling and Frank Zappa.
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Don't be fooled by the twee names and gratuitous puns, Werdelin says: Pets are big business, and the industry is growing at a rapid clip.
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It's a day of donning appropriate T-shirts, re-watching the films (and TV series) loudly blaring the soundtrack and making so, so many puns.
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Apparently, all that "listening" and "learning" and "changing" that MoviePass claims it's doing has resulted in little more than vague promises and silly dog puns.
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But let's not forget how much we love Buffy's ability to sling puns almost as quickly as she can sling a stake at a vampire.
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T-Mobile's "#BagofUnlimited" There are plenty of puns in the hilarious bit all about the banter between TV personality Martha Stewart and rapper Snoop Dogg.
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Subtlety, as you can see from the seemingly infinite number of bathroom-related puns on the company's website, is not part of its PR strategy.
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Whatever the reason, their muddled film lurches from lame puns to hamfisted political commentary, from dream sequences to imagery recycled from Mr Gilliam's previous work.
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California couple Kyle and Cori Gunderson shared a video on social media that highlighted their unique Christmas decorations, which consisted exclusively of hilarious holiday puns.
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And the vape juices certainly have not been FDA approved, despite the company's claims, as Ars Technica first reported with a series of perfect puns.
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During an appearance on Capital Breakfast, Welby was challenged to give a weather update packed with as many Harry Potter puns as she could manage.
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But also you're a tiny little cat warrior with an adorably fat face and a guardian cat spirit that can't stop cracking feline-themed puns.
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Get your gifs, puns and pictures ready, with no shortage of news stories and ingenuity, 2016 looks set to be another busy year on Twitter.
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Besides making an outrageous amount of boring puns, he also changed his Twitter bio to "Hat Salesman," as you can see in the screenshot below.
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Niemann devised hundreds of these visual puns, and now he's collected them—along with more work from his career—in his new monograph, Sunday Sketching.
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Related: An Anonymous Artist's Erotic Utopia | Monday Insta Illustrator Korean Artist Makes Visual Puns from Pop Culture Escapist Drawings of Technicolor Weirdos | Monday Insta Illustrator
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But, of course, it's standing (sitting?) on the shoulders of many great scenes that came (oh, there are so many puns to be had) before.
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By the time I was in college, he had stopped baking experimental batches of bread for fun and had lost his affinity for bad puns.
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If you're in the market for puns, frequent jokes about the weather and plenty of glorious self-deprecation, it's pretty much got everything you need.
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Ahead are all the phrases Kimmy confuses, puns she gets wrong, and general linguistic misunderstandings in the first two seasons of the hit Netflix series.
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It's not simply that she loves puns; it's that she thinks through and with them; her narratives move forward, develop and expand, by mobilizing them.
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The mini-games include super-cute graphics, plenty of plane puns, and hide the important things (like safety and evacuation procedures) within each adorable task.
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I rediscovered puns that wormed their way permanently into my memory, absurd comedy gags, and a cast of shallow, entitled characters with no moral compasses.
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Hearing such slurs and ignorant puns does little to harm Warren, and instead perpetuates stereotypes and detracts from the real issues that Native people face.
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"We tried to warn KFC this decision would have consequences," Mick Rix, GMB's national officer, said in a statement, though he couldn't help using puns.
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Ads from the era frequently relied on sexualized images and lazy masturbation-adjacent puns to sell games to a presumed audience of straight, adolescent boys.
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Ru ushered in the runway challenge, titled simply, "Feathers," which released a flock of toothless avian puns from the judges that largely did not fly.
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On top of all that, Barkbox has some of the best customer service that's very available and helpful — and even speaks exclusively in dog puns!
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It's especially unfortunate that more people don't plunge into the "Puns and Anagrams," or Panda, because this is a gateway drug to more cryptic puzzles.
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Wordplay SUNDAY PUZZLE — There are people who will say that puns are the lowest form of humor, and I generally don't bother arguing with them.
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There are four well-known birds and phrases involved, and the puns are various and imaginative — don't try to find and follow a single rule.
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There are four well-known birds and phrases involved, and the puns are various and imaginative — don't try to find and follow a single rule.
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There are a couple of puns and a couple of factual questions, and one or two of them were probably in each of our wheelhouses.
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Boarding has now begun for Peter Weber's season of The Bachelor — and that's the first of many pilot puns you should expect come January 6.
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In preparation for a snowy weekend, the Philadelphia Police Department is reminding residents about parking laws in the best possible way: with Game of Thrones puns.
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The other reason is that as soon as I started writing seriously as a part of my work as an artist, the puns came pouring out.
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The effect is a stream of consciousness visual version of verbal diarrhea, filled with visual puns and images that sometimes speak to each other or disagree.
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Granted, some trolls out there would take delight in being able to reheat their explosively funny fire puns should the Note 8 exhibit more battery issues.
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To celebrate, the Transportation Security Administration has published a jocular blog post full of bad puns and winking warnings against bringing any prohibited items through security.
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The story was widely picked up (complete with recycled "nuts" puns) by most major media orgs—and for the record has not been proven a hoax.
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Courtney's lyrics play further with her own mythology on "Reasons To Be Beautiful" with barely concealed puns: "Love hangs herself / With the bedsheets in her cell".
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Floating to the top of the nearly 4000 comments the topic has garnered are the gems: perfect puns of real TV shows with a GOT twist.
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Mario & Luigi jokes are usually at Luigi's expense, while Paper Mario pokes fun at its paper-thin characters with visual gags and a lot of puns.
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And of course there were puns: Comment from discussion Cecil__'s comment from discussion "Even your pigeons are politely and calmly walking out of the tube".
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Laden with Poppins puns and sequel-to-original comparison points, reviews indicates that one size does not fit all when it comes to this Disney tentpole.
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On the other, it also seems like a recipe—no stupid puns intended—for moderately unsatisfied customers, frustrated restaurant owners, and some not-great entrees. Yandex.
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Although in conversation he is given to dad jokes and puns, he can become opinionated, brusque, and disapproving when he sits at a computer with Sanjay.
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In that spirit, today's puzzle puns in the form of ENHARMONIC spellings, wherein the same sounded pitch (in equal temperament) is notated in two different ways.
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When Bertie decides she wants a promotion at "Condé Nest" (the show has an unabashed love of puns), Tuca is right there to help her out.
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They slipped outrageous puns into self-written confessions, such as this one by the ship's commander, and surreptitiously raised their middle fingers in films and photographs.
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Sometimes just the slightest twist — a different set of theme entry puns, say — can be enough, but the theme can also be made to look different.
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Once you get one theme entry you can probably guess the rest of them; they're old puns but put together, the theme winds up being fun.
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Some are just puns: Corona the beer is having a rough go of it this year, as virus memes have caused its stock prices to plummet.
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Best line: Dialogue is now part of the "Cats" universe, but there's nary a zinger to be found, unless you count some rather obvious cat puns.
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While there, Hotdoggers will practice the art of Wienermobile parking, choose a Hotdogger name, and mustard up as many puns as they can hot-dog stand.
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This isn't an edge-of-your-seat western, but the book is packed with puns, twists of words and vintage cowboy dialect kids will enjoy imitating.
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Same goes for the many, many puns around the use of "Jew," which, when used without the more palatable "ish," has an aggressive and negative connotation.
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From silly puns to famous TV and movie couples, here are the 21 best easy couples costumes — and the essentials you'll need to pull them off:
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When Cranston, Cumberbatch and Redmayne all film dating videos of their own right at the end (their A+ puns all deserve a date, in our opinion).
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The library kicked things off by challenging a few of the 221,22020 members of #LibraryTwitter who liked their tweet to come up with some cheesy puns.
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The result is the Studs boutique, which is a bright, Instagrammable space with ear puns a-plenty that welcomes customers via both appointments and walk-ins.
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This was the challenge facing Bertrand Guyon at Schiaparelli, and this season he mostly decided to play down the visual puns and play up the drape.
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The cards are filled with puns—character names include Malty and Daiquirin—and references to everything from My Little Pony to It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
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It`s certain there is a method to the madness and that is "10 out of 10" for CNN TEN, where the puns are intended and automatic.
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Whether serving up space puns, cheering on his favorite sports teams, or expressing his love for traditional guacamole, he showed that he, too, could have some fun.
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First of all, it allowed us to make terrible shell puns for weeks, but it also introduced us to one of our finest video subjects, Shelly Kelly.
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Vince Collins: Coming up with some pure animation—sequences that could not be done in any other medium, impossible transitions of objects in motion, visual puns, surrealism.
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And if the conversation is lagging by this point in the meal, there is no end to beet-related puns you can bust out for cheap laughs.
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While misusing 911 is no laughing matter, the Hamilton police couldn't help but joke about the situation on Twitter, with others joining in on the burger puns.
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Fortunately, we had a humorous and exciting time in the Tank, full of poop puns, and we are thankful that the Sharks seemed receptive to the idea.
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"I see that Reforma has hired the guy who writes the headlines for Metro," one person tweeted, referring to another local paper with terrible taste in puns.
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The ability to name your fish, meanwhile, gives you a stronger sense of attachment to their fortune—or, perhaps, an opportunity to go wild with the puns.
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The ACLU published the letter it sent to Swift's lawyers, which explains how the First Amendment works, and makes some questionable puns involving Swift's most popular songs.
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First up for the new brand: The initial drop is made up of 54 unique lip products, in varying sheens, finishes, and colours — not to mention puns.
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That may account both for the reaction that puns get from listeners—the groan suggesting that the punster ought to know better—but also for their popularity.
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The latest season of Bojack continued to push the emotional boundaries of what we expect from animated comedy shows — especially one that makes so many animal puns.
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We trust you got a charge out of it, and though that's the last leg of today's show, we'll have more stories and puns on deck tomorrow.
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And if I were to act like I hated these puns, I'd be a hippocrite, because I'm always trying to get the hippopotamost out of each show.
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Unlike chess, a game of abstract reason and logic, "Jeopardy!" is full of puns, double entendres and wordplay; just the sort of thing meant to stump computers.
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It is even modern in the way it invites reader participation: riddles and puns hint at the development of the story and the fate of the characters.
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Is Smith drawn to creating wordy, precocious characters because she is so fond of puns, or do her intelligent characters naturally lead their author toward such wordplay?
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The dialogue retains plenty of Virginia ham (puns; gags about Ed's cooking), but it provides sincerity, too, and some of Arnold's zingers have a touch of wisdom.
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The online publication falsely reported that two fictitious men, whose names were puns on the names of two actual conservative internet commentators, were identified as the shooters.
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Schwarznegger's admittedly silly interpretation of Mr. Freeze, with his nonsensical ice-themed puns, is part of what makes the movie so enjoyable, even to the biggest haters.
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The hashtag #BreitbartCereals quickly picked up steam on Twitter, leading to a wild assortment of puns and Photoshopped images referencing racism, the Constitution, and President-elect Trump.
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A flow of literal-minded puns, well-paced with little surprises, makes you chuckle and think about identity and language, about bodies (including your own) as absurd.
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But there is no denying that, despite its obligatory quota of Bennettian puns and quips, "Allelujah!" is the most openly angry play of this master satirist's career.
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There are so many puns to be made about how A24's Waves was the breakout film of the 2019 Telluride Festival when it premiered last week.
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLE — Puns and Anagrams are two ingredients in a cryptic puzzle, also called a "British puzzle" after its popularity in England (and much of Europe).
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If it weren't for another accessible trait of Puns and Anagrams, their configuration as a standard crossword, I probably wouldn't have been able to solve them altogether.
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Will, Joel and team did a lovely job neatening our clues, which tend to be overlong (Natan's fault) and overflowing, happily, with puns and alliteration (the class's!).
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Mr. Hilger wants to know how well you know your movies, especially if they are disguised just a bit with clues that contain puns on the titles.
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Many fans, including me, were looking forward to a bit of escapist counterprogramming, something frothy and full of silly puns, in line with the first nine episodes.
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Solving Puns and Anagrams puzzles, or PandAs, is a great way to make the transition to cryptic puzzles from standard crosswords because they contain elements of both.
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It's as silly and darling an episode as the show has ever had, with plenty of puns and affection and enthusiasm, and some A+ frustration from Bob.
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Everything about this portrayal of Dracula is dialed to 11, with Bang bouncing back and forth between smug slinger of blood puns to rabid scenery-chewing animal.
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They are all cultural references with something in common, and they're clued with kitten-level adorable puns that all revolve around a two-letter word or initialism.
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This is the 60th Puns & Anagrams puzzle by Mel Taub that I've published in The Times — 59 in the Sunday Magazine and one in the daily paper.
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ABC program Media Watch picked up the gaffe, writing "One New Zealand is never enough," and before long, the puns came running in like dancing, drunk Hobbits.
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"Puns are the lifeblood of hashtag writing," said Christopher Shelley, a hashtag writer at the Wedding Hashers (which charges $20 for three hashtags) and a wedding officiant.
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"On the other hand, they can't help themselves without making third grade puns in this statement: is this funny wink wink, nod nod or is this serious?"
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Google announced the new functionality in a blog post, which is alone worth a read for the sheer number of paw puns pulled off in five short paragraphs.
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A sign on the garage door says, "It would be MARVEL-ous to go to prom with you," making this promposal not only super but full of puns.
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Dealing with thorny topics like trauma, privilege, mental illness, harassment, and substance abuse isn't easy, especially when they have to be balanced with animal puns and goofy antics.
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Getty Images takes you on a trip (another one of them puns, hey?) down its history through highlights of what makes LSD a significant player in pop culture.
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The group, founded by a group of Asian-Australian teenagers from Melbourne, is flush with memes about boba tea, clever linguistic puns, and a joint sense of otherness.
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She quickly became part of the #MedTwitter world, where doctors and medical students discuss their work, ask earnest questions or offer advice, or tweet medical puns and jokes.
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Among the Instagram posts of clever puns, obscure movie references, and popular superheroes, you're bound to scroll past a costume that makes you lose all faith in humanity.
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They provide the show with its signature "doughverload" of puns, comfort contestants who are crying over cake, and find innuendo in everything from bread rolls to cream horns.
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From Emilia Clarke's dragon-themed puns to Isaac H. Wright's poignant Hodor selfies, we've rounded up all the Thrones actors you can (and absolutely should) follow on Instagram.
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And even in its title, the book puns tellingly on the distinction between Beowulf the warrior, or aglæca, and the mother of Grendel, the monster, the aglæca-wif.
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This morning, the New York Stock Exchange was full of puns (like the one we just made), a major bell-ringing, and one top model donning dog ears.
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But this time, he's less about annoying Dana and more about committing her to a lifetime of puns — by proposing to her on the side of a cliff.
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You can obviously already use other apps to put all manner of stickers over your bits, but TrickPics offers the added fun of dick puns and boob jokes.
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Here are some of the best memes from the impeachment inquiry so far:The simple word of "impeachment" made its way into funny puns, including one by singer Lizzo.
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The Brewers at Old Nation Brewing Company couldn't find the right name for their new double dry hopped saison—there are only so many hop puns, after all.
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Image by Capcom, Screenshot pettyartist Of course, there's Pokémon, too—the names of each individual Pokémon are these carefully crafted puns, which—admittedly, sadly—don't always translate perfectly.
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Sundae School's collections to date have focused on T-shirts, hoodies and hats — mostly slickly designed, street-wear-style graphic items with weed puns and traditional Korean illustrations.
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The funny part is that these are, of course, phrases that have nothing to do with sleep or alarm clocks, yet Mr. Hawkins has turned them into puns.
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But here in Canada, the impending legalization of marijuana is the stuff of get-rich-quick dreams (and too many puns in news articles, but that's another matter).
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ANKLE BITERS is great, and 5D reminded me of this (there's a little bit of profanity, but just a little): There's also a nice mix of other puns.
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From Ms. Cattrall's larynx, the words of Samantha slunk and shimmied across the Manhattan of the early aughts, her voice sliding around ribald puns as if extra lubricated.
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VARIETY PUZZLE — I love solving the Puns and Anagrams that we get every couple of months; they have a lot of personality and finishing makes one feel clever.
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Her shoes clamor for attention with ridiculous puns, but the closet is thrown into a frenzy when she picks out two shoes that are not a matching set.
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If you're just joining us, Puns and Anagrams puzzle clues are somewhat different than regular crossword clues, although there's a fair amount of crossover to crosswords these days.
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We get one day a year to go all-in on heart-shaped candy, mushy cards with lots of love puns, and head-to-toe pink-and-red.
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There were a few good puns and misdirections, like ATF; I thought the clue for SPELL was great, and liked the pair of clues for APPLY and OPT.
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But he leaves behind "Bohemian Rhapsody" puns (will he ever do the Fandango?), endless GIFs of a single news conference air-kiss and a new White House order.
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"I started thinking of puns as a rubric — what would lightness in a Dan Flavin sculpture feel like as an olfactory experience?" says Choi of developing her dishes.
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In the United States, most Vietnamese-Americans, tired of explaining, simply tell other Americans to say the name as "Win," leading to many puns about win-win situations.
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An example of jokey static art is Eric Yahnker's, who creates visual puns oftentimes in the form of title-as-punchline, or by just meme-ifying an image.
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Editors and contributors Peter Rubin, Angela Watercutter, and K.M. McFarland are in the booth and we promise there are no Red Lobster jokes or puns in this podcast. Probably.
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Yes, I kid around with you, but what fun we have in these puns and we Beagle you, join us next week or we're bark with more CNN 10.
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The internet was quick to point out the discrepancy and has already gone a lil' wild with Punk Ivanka memes, puns on lyrics, and a hearty dose of skepticism.
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The opposite of this would be a joke with no structure, no puns, no references to decades-old films that the writer has clearly never seen, and no misogyny.
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In a 30-second ad called "#BagOfUnlimited," Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg use a string of weed-related puns to make the case for T-Mobile's unlimited data plan.
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We also learn that many of the contestants aren't quite sure what a baguette or a violet looks like, and that Mary Berry is a huge fan of puns.
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BuzzFeed News talked to over half a dozen of her friends and colleagues, who spoke glowingly of her unending curiosity, her love of puns, and her impressive knitwear collection.
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VARIETY PUZZLE — Solving a Puns and Anagrams puzzle feels, to me at least, kind of like cheating on a diet after a full week of eating only healthy food.
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There are plenty of puns like this throughout the beginner-level class (sip salutations and downward-facing drunk, I kid you not), but something about its intent feels serious.
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From the looks of the trailer, there will be fried chicken, entire bags of weed, pizza emblazoned with Martha and Snoop's faces, and a whole lot of food puns.
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They also spewed their fair share of Star Wars puns, including a "May the force be with you" line, a lightsaber battle and one hysterically misplaced Star Trek quote.
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Cue some filing-cabinet based puns, a blood-filled red balloon and a surprise cameo from Freddy Krueger at the end (just to round the horror theme off nicely).
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As their second summer working together approached, Jim organized a marriage proposal during a camp assembly with plenty of whitewater-related puns about never knowing what's around the bend.
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Nationalistic puns aside, the simultaneous embrace and rejection of fast food shows that Russia has the very same ambivalent relationship with junk food as those in the decadent West.
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We cross the world to bring you news, only the puns keep you in suspense, unless you find them pedestrian, in which case I'll just take a hike y'all.
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Somehow, a cartoon about a middle-aged horse actor turned into a profound treatise on addiction, anxiety, and intergenerational trauma, all wrapped up alongside some really solid animal puns.
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A lot of bready puns ensued — the bacon, egg and cheese sandwich told me he "kneaded" me, and I told him I hoped I could rise to the occasion.
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But The Carmichael Show managed to pull off some puns, not by making light of a serious situation but by shedding light on ridiculous oppositions to verbal, enthusiastic consent.
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The Blakes' photos feel just as playful (and use just as many puns) as these announcements, yet they provide a whole new take on how couples talk about fertility.
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While these puns will escape non-Chinese language speakers, the bat's benign appearances and widespread prevalence makes clear its presence is beloved in China — to some extent, of course.
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VARIETY PUZZLE — Puns are inventive and complex; whenever you think you've pinned down every type of pun under the sun, something new (at least to you) inevitably pops up.
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There were also some auditory puns, signaled by elements like "we hear" or "on the radio": CACHE for "cash" at 216A, for example, and TAIL for "tale" at 221A.
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A lot of them are based on puns, and they're very simple and kind of funny in Japanese but then they take like, five paragraphs to explain in English.
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Hosts Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins, an established British comedy duo, cannot resist making truly terrible puns, the worst of which they punctuate with actual winks to the camera.
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Over that week, I taught my son the language of crosswords, how clues that ended with question marks were usually puns, how an abbreviated clue signified a foreshortened answer.
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Fun trivia (CENTS, who knew?); nice puns, like STEREO, AMEN and TOAST; and hardly any gotcha names, an unusual perk on a Sunday and probably because of the theme.
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Puns of all kinds are core to the "BoJack" experience, and one of the series's most groaningly brilliant came during a Season 2 scene in a '50s-themed restaurant.
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There are still contestants left on The Bachelor, who will experience group dates, travel around the world, and be witness to a million puns about air travel and windmills.
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It's also been the site of some beautiful viral moments, like the video of that dude who annoyed his girlfriend with furniture puns and the beloved stylish IKEA monkey.
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That Pico manages to pull this all off while reflecting on his Kumeyaay heritage and putting in all the food puns is a tribute to his considerable talent. —T.
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I react a little bit differently to puzzles that bring something interesting about common language to light, rather than overwhelm me with brilliant puns or dazzling feats of construction.
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To announce their new line of "pro gear" masturbation socks, the site dropped one of their weirdest ads yet, an overwrought inspirational commercial full of eye-roll-inducing puns.
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Hooters, the casual dining establishment which is best known for the skimpy, skintight outfits that its waitresses wear and the bad puns about boobs that it scatters throughout its locations.
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As far as "Pure Water" itself is concerned, the title in and of itself invites all your best "icy" and "chilly" puns, and more importantly, it lives up to them.
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Could we at least all agree that puns on "me so horny" for "Asian things" are racist and lazy, and that for so many reasons they just need to stop?
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Characterized by splashy colors and patterns, her paintings depict women in revealing and exuberantly styled clothing, engaged in leisure activities or absurdist scenarios punctuated by visual puns and physical confrontations.
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After a lot of failed designs—and really, really bad puns—Sripol and his buddies finally built a plane that they can maneuver through the air in a controlled manner.
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In extremely unsurprising news, Michelle Obama — who is already good at practicing law, dancing to "Uptown Funk," making turnip puns and being the First Lady — is also good at Catchphrase.
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Their "Hawk Wings," which are chicken wings braised in duck fat, fall off the bone and are proof that Grill 'Em All is not all just food and metal puns.
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Others simply enjoyed the joke fodder that Sheeran's appearance provided, poking fun at the promotional feel, making song puns and even theorizing that Sheeran could factor into the show's end.
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While painters like André Masson and Joan Miró practiced visual automatism, others, René Magritte, Max Ernst and Salvador Dalí among them, used meticulous technique to create optical puns and illusions.
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If bike puns, Metro jabs and Bridgeghazi jokes are your speed, then an unofficial spin-off of the hit game "Cards Against Humanity" may be the party game for you.
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In honor of Obama's final turkey pardoning — which was chock full of puns, as per usual — we've rounded up all eight years of him executing this weird and hallowed tradition.
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I liked the descriptor immediately, in part because it's hilarious and I'm a sucker for puns, but also because its irreverence describes my lifestyle with a precision other labels haven't.
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Reimer used the four house names — Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin — to create puns incorporating inspiring "Don't Mess With Me" messages that any Harry Potter fan and feminist would enjoy.
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Of course, his ever-nimble lyrics — which have made his name a byword for verbal cosmopolitanism — abound in paradoxes, puns and declarations of uncertainty, all etched into deep-burrowing grooves.
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I've always imagined it as having a brain like a big library, filled with snippets, jokes and terrible puns, and being a good enough librarian to know which one fits.
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Notice how none of these involve question marks, either; fresh, smoothly executed puns are a welcome sight, in my book, but they're just one way to enliven the solving experience.
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The farcical subplots involving Malvolio and Sir Andrew benefit from a new, modern translation by Olivier Cadiot, who has found witty puns to match Shakespeare's, without giving in to vulgarity.
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Mr. Wechsler has lost a few O's here and there, but the good news is that he dropped them from common phrases with OU combinations that make for funny puns.
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Puns and Anagrams puzzles require a different interpretation of clues than American-style crosswords, but I like the variety of clue styles in these PandAs, as they are affectionately called.
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Joe Deeney's sharp puzzle is a nice palate cleanser, with some good (and groany) puns and references to enough genres that you could certainly solve it with a diverse crowd.
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Wordplay It's so nice to start a new year with a cryptic; they're very artisanal, I think, finely crafted little jewel boxes of puns and clever verbal sleights of hand.
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLE — After a long week of crossword-solving, it's nice to change things up a bit, and today's Puns and Anagrams puzzle by Joe DiPietro fits the bill.
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One thing we didn't have to contend with today was a lot of neologisms, but the rampant puns made up for that and amped up the creativity needed to solve.
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Viewers must thoroughly suspend disbelief to truly revel in the show's genius — a cannibal named Hannibal making puns about eating people with the Director of Behavioral Psychology at the F.B.I.?
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In addition, there is a column about the weekly Variety puzzle (these include the acrostics, the puns and anagrams, the cryptics and more), which runs on Saturdays at noon Eastern.
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But with his legacy on the chopping block this year, even a few puns could not dispel the feeling of a New Orleans funeral — celebratory but with an underlying sadness.
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They're usually a lot more difficult and substantial than those in a Puns and Anagrams — today, for example, we have ENTRY VISA, GRUMBLES AT, SCORE A GOAL and SENATE SEAT.
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Ms. Jacobson's puzzles were dense with thematic clues and full of intricate puns, but she was not the kind of diabolical cruciverbalist whose goal is to make the puzzle unsolvable.
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When I saw my boy Ricky flying the flag not only for A$AP mob, but also for rap puns and property maintenance services, my heart skipped a thousand jumps.
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I could post cheap puns and wisecracks in the hope of scoring fake internet points, known as karma, earned by sharing a post or making a comment that gets upvoted.
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This hilarious completion consists of some pretty epic Halloween fails that will surely make you laugh, some awkward encounters between news reporters and interviewees, amazing costumes, puns, and some floating heads.
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If that wasn't enough to make your head slump to one side in reality TV despair, the bad puns rained down upon Ben like flirtatious gunfire, 12 within the first hour.
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" In efforts to remain calm, he recalls counting how many puns about fire he could think of to lighten the gravity of the situation: "I got that skylight I always wanted!
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While making a stop in Australia during his 24K Magic World Tour, Mars cuddled up alongside a koala and shared a few flirty puns that would make any marsupial-lover blush.
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And when they're not offering a shoulder to cry on, they're delightedly stealing scraps of food from the bakers and making as many dirty baking-related puns as they possibly can.
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In her post about the new t-shirt and accessory line, That Food Cray co-founder Nicole Fung explained why they chose to incorporate music and food puns into the designs.
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And Miu Miu tapped actress Elle Fanning, 20, to be the new face of their latest fragrance "Twist," with a cute trailer that shows her making some really far-out puns.
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We're going to answer his question, but first we're going to have to work our way through some theme clues that are puns on situations that come up in baseball games.
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Inspired by Cracker Barrel's newest menu item, fans will be able to win one of these limited-edition fried chicken floats by submitting their best chicken-inspired sayings or puns online.
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From ABBA puns to The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift jokes, here are some Mamma Mia memes and future film suggestions that would make even the great Meryl Streep proud.
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October 3, A.K.A. the day that Aaron Samuels asked Cady Heron what day it is in math class, is usually filled with "fetch" puns, memes and donning your best pink outfit.
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Last season, the show continued its clever examination of narcissism and depression, but allowed some of its poignancy to get buried in a heap of animal puns and aimless plot lines.
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It's entirely possible that the person you're going on a date with next week won't understand that your selfie captions are ironic, or appreciate that you tweet a lot of puns.
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On Sunday morning, determined to cheer him up, I took him for a walk around Town Lake, peppering our conversation with witty snark and clever puns, two of his favorite things.
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Walk the aisles of any Home Goods, Marshall's, or T.J. Maxx and you'll find a seemingly endless selection of decorative housewares adorned with wine-related puns: How Merlot Can You Go?
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It's one thing to generate puns based on an algorithm, and another to implicitly understand why people react to those jokes with groans, laughter, or pin-drop levels of icy silence.
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But for everyone's sake, let's avoid making puns about how it swept in and made a big splash or whatever and just say, simply: This one is supposed to be incredible.
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Today, we have a puzzle that is extremely freewheeling and creative, chock-full of puns and the anagrams that help a solver along are like tricky little needles in a haystack.
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Colbert decided he ought to warn his baby-boomer viewers about the perils of hard drugs; for some reason, he decided to do it with a litany of groan-inducing puns.
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Since late last year, when China first alerted the world to the novel coronavirus, jokes, puns, and memes about it have been spreading even faster and wider than the virus itself.
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Puns rely on their crafter's creativity, and today you are dealing with a 5-dimensional punter on an infinite field, where you might never run out of lingual room to run.
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It involved puns around interesting names for groups of animals: "Group of rhinos on Wall Street?" for STOCK MARKET CRASH, "Group of crows in Egypt?" for MURDER ON THE NILE, etc.
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The puns get really fun and freewheeling; the anagrams help with crosses and hints; and by the end, you've honed your skills in recognizing and manipulating both letters and meanings galore.
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The Puerto Rican songwriter Ileana Mercedes Cabral Joglar, who records as iLe, gets combative on her second album, "Almadura," which translates as "Hard Soul" and puns on "armadura," Spanish for armor.
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And while GTA's satire is often scathing, dressing its environments with cheap and nasty puns, Undercover's penchant for parody is expressed with a lot more affection, and family-friendly slapstick humor.
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Gutoskey's carved-block elements interact with collage pieces from botanical catalogues and cards, creating gentle visual puns ("I'm always good for a fruit or pansy joke while I'm working," he quips).
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The series also remains one of the funniest on TV, brazenly willing to nestle so-bad-they're-great puns alongside show business satire and dark jokes about the cost of depression.
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Here are all the quirky lines and bad puns from VIEWS that are bound to clog up the feeds of your favorite Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter basics in the days to come.
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The seven artists continued their Madonna puns with MATERIAL WORLD, a series of sculptural and video installations in more discrete sizes than most of the other works on view in the space.
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There are jokes and puns about everything from hangovers to Trump to friendships and love, as well as content associated with various TV shows, plus song lyrics, quotes, and pick-up lines.
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Invisibly, as before, she presented the cascading jokes and puns of the indomitable Gaulish villagers as if they had been minted in English; many readers, to her delight, supposed they had been.
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We took advantage of the puns trend and decided to Latinize these designers' names with ones that were very Latino, which is why we decided to name the collection À-la-Mexique.
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Singaporean netizens are having a field day with Satan jokes and puns after the Land Transport Authority (LTA) announced on its Facebook page the launch of five new bus services on Monday.
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You will encounter a plethora of fire and dragon puns, and it's a testament to Kenny's acting and the faithful authenticity of the remaster that they don't make you roll your eyes.
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This led me to the humorous project, German for Artists, which is a collection of grammatical sentences, puns and metaphors about what the art world—collectors, curators and artists—are already doing.
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For Fox Sake Mug, available on Society6, from $16.99For the friend who loves puns, has a penchant for swearing, or appreciates a nice ceramic mug that pretty much works like every other.
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The script doctors called in for revisions included Erich Segal, who later wrote "Love Story," and the Liverpool writer and musician Roger McGough, who added the absurdist puns sprinkled throughout the film.
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There are dumb Christmas songs—brash, adolescent, sex-obsessed, donkey-brained pieces of music that return to playlists every December like misbehaving college freshmen coming home to workshop their smuttiest "stuffing" puns.
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You know, like the fact that I'm currently following a quest called "Everybody Loves Beans" and the game is tossing endless and awful bean-related puns at me every chance it gets?
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If you're new to Puns and Anagrams (or PandAs, as they are also called), you've noticed by now that the clues are very different from the more straightforward, American-style crossword clues.
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We didn't see the goofiest of puns — O.K., the clue for UMLAUTS was a great one — but there was a freshness to clues for CAPE, RAT, OLD AGE, BLAT, SEASHORE and others.
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His puzzles are some of the most beloved New York Times crosswords, and I can say that his sense of humor and mastery of puns was one reason I started constructing them.
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So: All film titles, the change is all in the last letters, they're all high quality puns clued brilliantly, and the circled/shaded letters spell out the very thing they are doing.
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The works have innumerable visual and verbal puns, juxtaposing high culture references like Salvador Dalí, Gustave Courbet, David Smith, and Louis Nevelson, against allusions to pop celebrities Marilyn Monroe and Barbara Streisand.
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His music, even since Pavement melted into entropy in 1999, has been jarring and opaque, defined by lyrics that circle around homonyms and puns, or break from generational observations into non sequiturs.
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Puns and wordplay are the order of the day, like "Who's there" for FIRST, which happens to be Who's place over "there" if you are familiar with the Abbott and Costello routine.
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There was his number on our family group text, a long message chain that my sisters and I use as a place to deposit our complaints about the day and bad puns.
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Your Jomny-love may depend on your stomach for non sequiturs, cute animals and puns (a beaver says "dam business"; an otter thinks it's an "auteur") but also perhaps on your age.
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British Twitter is generally a glorious place filled with puns, sarcasm, and the kind of amusing day-to-day observations capable of bringing surprising levels of joy — and 2124 was no exception.
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The job begins in June at Hot Dog High, a 2-week training session that includes picking a Hotdogger name, learning various hot dog puns ... and mastering parallel parking of the Wienermobile.
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They've never left us and next weekend there will be a Puns and Anagrams puzzle on Sunday, sometimes known as a PANDA, that you should solve if you like puzzles like today's.
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It's a particularly fitting topic for Saturday Night Live alum Ana Gasteyer's brand of musical comedy; she loves to spout puns, warped rhymes, plural entendres, and other tokens of irrepressible verbal invention.
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" The post went viral and drew over 4,000 commenters, many of them word nerds who shared jokes about puns, silent letters and homophones: "Why can't you hear a pterodactyl using the bathroom?
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"We had a lot of fun scrolling through the dozens of burger puns that have appeared on Bob's Burgers," Will Guidara and Daniel Humm say of brainstorming for their NoMad Truck burger.
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Now, we have a pretty detailed breakdown of our worst selves, thanks to a new survey called "Bad and Boozy" (LOL or eye roll, depending on your appreciation for Migos puns) from Addictions.
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MRK: One explanation is that I think of puns being a verbal cubism where you can get a word to hold multiple facets of meaning that have no logical relationship to each other.
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This sci-fi-like innovation in self-service is called the Fleshlight Launch, which is slightly disappointing—there's a world of space/sex puns out there, and they could have done way better.
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What remains to be seen is how the writers manage to make sexually charged puns out of the Call of Duty lexicon—no scope, headshots, kill streaks—there's a lot to work with.
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She's been searching her feelings (I've got so many more Star Wars puns in my arsenal, you don't even know), and whether her affection for him is pure programming, or real, or both.
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"I'm a Dog," premiering on Noisey today and produced by lordxprynce, is a boisterous trap track with A$AP Ferg and Migos both guesting and making as many dog-related puns as possible.
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There have been more than 223,22016 tweets about the hashtag, with users poking fun of Trump's campaign rhetoric and sore spots (like his allegedly "short fingers") with puns on existing TV show titles.
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Spurring fan-art, tattoos, puns, a sequel in the works and the ever-present debate over artificial intelligence, Blade Runner has a cult following that makes Batty's birthday a big deal in nerdom.
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Gangham Style Santa I purchased this bad boy at Honest Ed's, the iconic Kubrickan maze of discount goods and terrible puns located in Toronto's Annex [soon to be closed for a condo obviously].
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Oh, to be a a beauty-product namer and spend your days thinking of hilarious color puns (Blue My Mind, anyone?) and quippy monikers that occasionally make us crack up (or feel rage).
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He's a master at capturing visual puns and uncomfortable moments in real life, and the couple of deep cuts from his archive that he submitted for this photo issue are full of them.
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There's no reason to believe that the whip counts and bad puns in Pod Save America's shutdown push have damaged that reputation, but the effort has pushed the podcast into a new role.
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After finishing his remarks, filled with puns, the president blessed a 40-pound (18-kg) fowl from Iowa, granting it a long life and a pardon from appearing on an American dinner table.
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My father was a writer/translator, so he translated a lot of his works into Serbian and was very well know for being able to transfer the puns and ambiguity into our language.
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Pun Intended Game, available at Amazon, $25It's a battle of who can devise the most clever puns in this family-friendly card game that requires a quick mind and even faster writing skills.
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When one defendant was caught at a local bee yard with stolen boxes, local newspapers and major media outlets had fun with the bee heist, lacing copy with inevitable puns about sting operations.
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These people take time out of their busy lives to make puzzles that challenge and entertain us, and they are much smarter than I am, except perhaps when it comes to gas puns.
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Told in a hybrid comics and novel form, with a fast-moving plot and bad puns aplenty, "Max and the Midknights" will keep even the most reluctant of readers engaged to the end.
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There's also a reference to Flight of the Conchords, regional accents shown through liberal use of 'ere then and 'orses, and excellent use of puns and idioms like "a dog's dinner" scattered around.
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As devoted fans of the franchise well know, the bachelor in the hot seat this season is Peter Weber, a pilot for Delta Airlines, whose occupation has already spurred countless air travel puns.
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Today's quip by Alan Arbesfeld might not be that well-known as far as I can tell, but if you like puns and other kinds of "groaner" jokes, the payoff is definitely there.
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I'm a huge fan of wordplay and pun-based clues or answers, and since this puzzle is a bit sparse in that department I'll be doubling down with puns on my next puzzle.
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Story at a glance It's not hard to find photos from the inaugural Women's March of 2017, a veritable sea of pink hats and people holding up signs clad with clever political puns.
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The state GOP released a statement full of meat-related puns on Friday, warning that "there couldn't be more at steak" as the Democratic candidates visit Iowa for the fundraiser on Saturday night.
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A Trek-themed dating site seems like a great opportunity to go with a futuristic style and a lot of excellent style Star Trek puns, but both Bird and Gough's sites look dated.
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Emilia Clarke's glorious social media presence consists of excitable videos, Game of Thrones-related puns and basically just a load of photos of her being the awesome badass we all know her to be.
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It never patronises its fans linguistically: pages are strewn with wonderfully monosyllabic yelps and tee-hees, but also more sophisticated words and puns that encourage children to view language as playful rather than onerous.
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Puns like "I'm dying to see you" and "You have a killer smile", as well as "Patay na patay ako sayo," which literally means "I'm dying for you" in Tagalog, features in the wreaths.
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Forgiving the bad puns, it is certainly true that the troubling connections between the Trump administration and Russia are far more concerning than Trump's predilection for over-cooked meat and a sugar-laced condiment.
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Just so you know: There are lots of bad puns on tuna and even more jokes that qualify as politically incorrect, involving references to the Holocaust, the stars' unseen Indian intern and dead celebrities.
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The announcers geeked out over the costumes in the crowd, indulging in "Star Wars" trivia and puns as runners left in waves, quickly heading into Disney Adventure Park and then to fabled Disneyland itself.
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If a game relies on silly puns and general comedy, like Pokémon, the translators have to consider the frequency, number and type of jokes, and whether they can replicate all of these factors accurately.
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We see Jett fend off a tarantula, narrowly avoid being thrown from his sailboat by a pod of hippos and make terrible puns about Christmas that somehow elicit adoration rather than cringes from Schuster.
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Though the company's lawyers issued a cease-and-desist letter requesting that Seven Stills refrain from using the logo or similar branding, the letter was chock-full of puns — nine, by Seven Stills's count.
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There are some who feel that words should not be played with, but if we followed that rule, there would be no puns, no verbal sleight-of-hand, no delicious Thursday tricks to enjoy.
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There are nine theme entries, all clued in italics and all running across, that are common phrases (and one well-known location) clued with puns that refer to a concealed trait they all share.
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Then when brainstorming we were coming up with funny puns and Jack Dolgen [songwriter] was like 'we tapped that ass' We said, 'Jack, you brilliant asshole how did we not think of that already?
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While the puns may be part of the original musical's libretto — and, as such, are pretty integral to the film as a whole — they go from cute to annoying in a matter of minutes.
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLE — Puns and Anagrams may look like your average crossword puzzle, but once you delve into the clues, you can see that some of them use a kind of cryptic crossword cluing.
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SATURDAY PUZZLE — Andrew J. Ries is a regular in the weekend rotation, and when I see his name on a grid I expect a lot of puns and a pretty good challenge over all.
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The answer OTIS is a honey pot for elevator puns and references to more well-known musicians, so we were pleased to have in the puzzle the influential performer, composer and bandleader Johnny Otis.
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Each frame is packed full of so many tiny in-jokes and background puns that it feels like you could watch the entire series several times over, and still keep seeing things you missed.
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It's been such a fun experience to discover and break into the "crossworld," where my puns are embraced rather than identified as the formal cause of me swiftly seeing myself out of a room.
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Throughout the game, you'll have a lot of silly interactions with many characters you've seen from previous Shovel Knight campaigns (and a few new ones), each packed with the series's typical groan-inducing puns.
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In each world, the map screen is presented as a tourism brochure, with little blurbs (serving as hints, with a few good puns!) and pretty pictures to direct your attention towards points of interest.
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To mark their fifth Super Bowl win, here's a look at five of the most memorable moments from the 2017 version of the parade, starring wintry weather, dancing shirtless warriors and plenty of GOAT puns.
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"[M]y boyfriend (master of dog puns) helped my best friend put together a resume for her dog for her temporary foster family and it's so good," Megan Frantz tweeted, alongside screenshots of the resumé.
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Simon Guindi launched Spenglish (ñ), a high-end T-shirt line tailored to a millennial sensibility complete with puns and multicultural messages, to express his love for his Latin roots and help advance Latino culture.
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Related: Korean Artist Makes Visual Puns from Pop Culture | Monday Insta Illustrator [Exclusive] Ron English's Incredible Hybrid Animals An Interview with 'We Bare Bears' Writer Mikey Heller Eazy E = MC² and Other Hilarious Mashup Portraits
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But actually, all feline-related puns aside, there's no denying that leopard print has officially become the pattern of the season — maybe even of the whole year — and now, it's making a move into swimwear.
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I've just been laughing at bad puns on the internet — at least until approximately 30 minutes ago when I was introduced to a deeply emotional ballad sung by one Sam Coleman, aka Young Hodor himself.
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Assiduously edited by the independent curator Adrian Sudhalter, it features a full reconstruction of this magazine that never was, full of puns, poems and Duchamp's chess notations, assembled with diligence and guesswork over 160 pages.
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The cast members first met through the drama club at Trinity College in Dublin, and they retain a shared sophomoric affection for bad puns, mangled cultural references and illogical logic stretched to the vanishing point.
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Mr. Rush also gets to deliver the prize groaners in the clichéd dialogue written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless: "There are some things worse than Set," he puns by way of introducing the monster.
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Cat puns aside, Thomas told Insider, "I have nothing to sell, no political message, my Photoshop skills are quite modest, I just want to have fun and share a good time with the Twitter community."
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The delightful "I'll Say She Is" at the Connelly Theater clears that bar easily, transporting its audiences back to the days of bad puns and zany incongruities as only the Marx Brothers could deliver them.
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Before you think that this is just a little crew of inside-jokers having a laugh over some alligator pear puns, let it be known that there are more than 30,000 readers of this subreddit.
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"The language has had a few thousand years to embed these puns throughout the culture, and it really shows in the art, which makes so many visual references to folk wisdom and proverbs," he added.
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Wordplay VARIETY PUZZLE — Puns and Anagrams puzzles, a known gateway drug to cryptic crosswords, are probably the most self-explanatory of all the Variety puzzles, and if you've never tried one, I highly recommend them.
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A few flavors included here were visual puns, like 64A: G W G, or a W in two Gs —> WINGS; an original-looking fill-in-the-blanks thing at 33D and 49D : _ _ ds dec _ _ atio _ _?
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Ms. Soper performed the second selection, as an allegory of Reason, in which a neo-Classical piano part adds arch prettiness to a text that cleverly spins variations and puns on the same key words.
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Every constructor (or setter, as they say in cryptics — I guess a maker of Pandas could be a consetter) has their own style and preferences for the infinite variety of puns that we can encounter.
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People get named after flowers, places and old-timey professions all the time, but then there are the names, like the one in this puzzle, that can be nouns and verbs, and puns and slang.
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It's generally inadvisable to speak to customers as if they're your best friends, which means lay off the emojis (which can easily be misconstrued), too-casual language and excessive use of cheesy puns or banter.
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"We did a lot of brainstorming, came up with plenty of horse puns while we were out drinking, and did research, both on farms and at butcher shops selling horse meat," said artist Woody Veneman.
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Sending people to other channels when they go off-topic is called ''raccooning,'' and being raccooned is like being sent to supremely cool detention: Dedicated channels exist for puns, parenting, puppies and dozens more special interests.
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This fun little addition to your iPhone keyboard offers a search engine for quips, puns, quotes, lyrics and other phrases that you can quickly pop into your Instagram posts, status updates, snaps, tweets, texts, and more.
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Ever since, the month of October (specifically the 3rd) has become the unofficial holiday for Mean Girls fans everywhere — with people celebrating with memes, fetch puns, and tributes to iconic quotes from the film via Twitter.
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They can all deliver a fairly funny line or two—I laugh a good few times during my preview, as Yooka-Laylee's full of appealing puns—but everything's so disconnected, adrift in the stream of #content.
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While the puns that one could make upon discovering that the frontman for The Offspring also happens to also be a successful hot sauce entrepreneur are virtually endless, we'll spare you most of them, except one.
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In "Earthquake News Report" on Saturday Night Live, a building collapse at a name change office leads to several pre–change individuals saying their increasingly silly names on air, leading to dirty puns and general hilarity.
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There, among puns and jokes (" BRUCE & DEMI-SEC MARRIAGE ON THE ROPES "), was a parody article headlined " NOTED WINE CRITIC EXPLODES ," detailing the supposed death of Parker while overeating at a bistro in the Rhône Valley.
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When he's not making bad puns and being the "last true rock star" or whatever, Marilyn Manson is happy to now play roles that only a nebbish Jewish dude with a waning chin can pull off.
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Even the story — which presents an alternate timeline in which the original Dragon Quest hero failed to save the world — is fun, with all of silly puns and groan-inducing jokes you'd expect from the series.
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I've written about this before, actually—it's not just about translating the words, it's about absorbing and understanding everything from context and culture to puns, references and the kind of detail a native speaker would expect.
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Puns are also linguistically fascinating demonstrations of the rich intersection of language and extralinguistic knowledge, and, for some people, irresistible expressions of the synapses that keep firing past the point of mere communication, eloquence or decorum.
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There are four different visual puns in the top half of the grid, each making the use of some bubbles; there are also four explainers in the bottom of the grid so we get the jokes.
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There are four different visual puns in the top half of the grid, each making the use of some bubbles; there are also four explainers in the bottom of the grid so we get the jokes.
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Mr. Kem Ley was adept at communicating with rural Cambodians over the radio, deftly deploying the puns, double entendres and allegories that are staples of effective political communication in what is still overwhelmingly an oral culture.
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Dads often get shit for dad jokes and being bad at texting, but father figures have another thing in common besides thinking terrible puns are hilarious: They're some of the most selfless people in the world.
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And the best proof that it is, in fact, a pun is that you think it is dumb, as puns are a very specific form of nonjoke designed to entertain only the dads who tell them.
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Over on Ireland's TG4 we had the weather reporter whose creative lightning bolt prank went viral, and on England's Channel 5 we have the above clip — a Halloween-themed forecast from Queen of weather puns Sian Welby.
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We got a whole lot of dudes tripping over themselves to meet Rachel Lindsay, a fat stack of corny puns, a terrifying doll, and just a little bit of whaboom (which might be too much whaboom, actually).
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But there's also the possibility that the titles "Star Spangled Boner" and "Dicks of Death" are puns on the names of John Boehner and Dick Cheney, a calling-out of the incompetent and malevolent in political life.
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There were pristine suffragist tuxedo suits and sweeping, severe Grand Bal capes, and luckily very few overt visual puns, apart from some silly net masks over the models' eyes and some tulle cage corsetry under it all.
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I figured this out completely from crosses — it's a great, clean use of homophonic puns, but since there's no revealer and no instructions, I just stumbled around until a few entries filled in enough to make sense.
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But "Netflix and Chill" for a story about going to a cold place and talking about the internet is the kind of headline that a magazine editor and newspaper editor puts on because puns are praised there.
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Instead, it is time for me to turn away from sex and toward new pursuits, the classic weird dad hobbies such as puns, learning trivia about bridges and wars, and dreaming about societal collapse and global apocalypse.
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There were a couple of auditory puns: I liked SECEDE at 1D (remembering that "germ" can mean an idea, or seed, as well as an infectious agent) and HAIRPIECE at 13A (remembering that "quiet" can mean peace!).
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I always give out the anagrams first, because they can be solved without explanation for the most part, and because they often provide letter hints to the puns that complete the grid — they're fill, in other words.
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Whether it's a female cat asking Victoria (Francesca Hayward) if the "cat's got her tongue," or another cat remarking that the "cat's out of the bag," the film as a whole features way too many cat puns.
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Echoes of Duchamp are everywhere in Hammons's work: puns and wordplay; irreverent humor; urinals and dust and everyday objects used as readymade art materials; the artist's withdrawal from the art market, while bending it to his needs.
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Using the hashtag #electionbooks, people partake of the tradition of employing literary puns to describe the election, with "Not-so-great Expectations," or some version of Charles Dickens's novel, still being one of the most popular choices.
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Rappaport's usual surface pleasures apply — visual puns and droll dialogue, inventive minimal production design — as he "taunts and charms the viewer with manipulations," in the words of B. Ruby Rich, in order to "expose the manipulations" of cinema.
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Well, actually there is a reason: "Beach Blanket Babylon" is nothing if not fond of puns, and so upon his entrance we hear "Puttin' On the Ritz," and dancers cavort with giant boxes of crackers on their heads.
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World Record Egg has a cutesy visual style and is full of egg-based puns, but it also gets a little weird, which is telegraphed by a "horror" tag on the game store and a warning about jumpscares.
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Spread the love this year with everything from cute sloths to funny food puns, cats in pajamas, secret scratch-offs, and even a popup of BB-8 holding a heart and roses for your favorite Star Wars fan.
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Believe it or not, more than a few people see the anniversary of one of the most iconic betrayals in history as an opportunity to post corny puns and memes — and we have to admit, they're pretty funny.
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The so-called 'Waterloop,' (bonus points for puns) got a test run yesterday, making the team the first to demonstrate a functioning, pneumatic levitation system on a test track using nothing but air to float their test objects.
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Ms. Dufault's characters, like those drawn by Jane, at first come across as paper-thin and too precious by half, summoned into existence for the sake of punch lines that usually take the form of seriously lame puns.
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His style — suffused with puns, linguistic play and self-referential asides that mulled the meanings of the very words springing from his pen — was praised by some observers for its transparency and damned by others for its opacity.
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Bobby makes his mutant powers obvious — he enjoys using them, uses them all the time — as a way to hide from the rest of himself, almost as he uses his endless supply of puns ("Ice to meet you").
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Originally, I did indeed clue the theme entries that way, but thankfully Will and the crew suggested we give straightforward clues to the theme entries and add the fish revealer (some of the puns were pretty groan worthy!).
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He literally did run, however -- down the street through crowds of people, with some cheering him on -- in order to catch up to his assigned position in the parade after greeting onlookers, prompting numerous puns on social media.
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PUNS AND ANAGRAMS — I am keeping my fingers crossed that The Times adds variety puzzles to the mobile app in 2020, and I am trying to scheme up how to otherwise increase the audience for these little jewels.
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There was a website; there was a song; there was arts and crafts; there was puns — it was such a multimedia onslaught of an effort that went into something that's about a guy slapping another guy in his face.
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Combining a cartoonist's sense of narrative, a caricaturist's knack for stylized visual puns and symbolic shorthand, and a painter's ability to refine a distinctive formal lexicon of shapes and subjects, the Nixon drawings offer a masterclass in political satire.
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I'd been working on it before I was pregnant, then when I got pregnant and was actually breastfeeding, all these puns started coming into my head: That's why you see all the signs and all the details in it.
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While I'm not expecting Leslie to wear animal pelts as she walks down the aisle, I do expect fellow cast members and friends to share dozens of pictures replete with Red Wedding puns and and "Wedding Is Coming" jokes.
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Others will likely get a chuckle out of Gucci fans: There are cheesy puns, familiar depictions of how we (irresponsibly) consider spending our money, and also callbacks to the sometimes-absurd following the brand has among the fashion set.
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Dads often get a lot of grief for dad jokes and being bad at texting, but father figures have another thing in common besides thinking terrible puns are hilarious: They're some of the most selfless people in the world.
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And while we're pretty sure no amount of space puns or jokes could distract from a frozen Russian woman flying outside the spacecraft, that doesn't stop McGovern from trying We "Apollo-gize" for the horrors you're about to see.
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At the center of everything is 22Gz, whose breakout song "Suburban" delivers puns and threats in a rapid-fire flow that blends both the styles of Meek Mill and G Herbo while bringing his own unique cadence to it.
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There were a lot of nice puns today — I loved the clues for SALE, ICER, LEGO, ATTIC and a few others — and there were several entries that could have been seed words for themes that never fully came together.
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This is his first Puns and Anagrams; this variety puzzle solves like a hybrid between cryptics and straightforward puzzles, and I always recommend them to anyone who does the daily crossword and wants to branch out into cryptic clues.
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There were a couple of Will Shortz's "missing letter" tricks (I liked 7D, SEPALS, a horticultural entry) and a few sound puns like 3D, where "Any" became the "ne" in NESTING (you need to say the letters out loud).
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Either way, at least the opportunity for puns (Game of Corporate Thrones came to mind) and the energy was high, despite the level of originality being pretty low, and the proposition itself being more office party than office politics.
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The idea for this puzzle came to me while driving on the highway, en route home from N.Y.C. I saw a billboard with a weight/wait pun, and it sent me searching for some fun puns of my own.
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