Puns Spooken Here
From New York Times best-selling author and linguist Richard Lederer comes this fun little book packed with puns, riddles, jokes, games, stories, and more!\ What do you call an empty hot dog?\ A hollow weenie.\ Why did the vampire join the police force?\ So he could learn how to get a stake out.\ What's the favorite food of mathematicians? Pumpkin pie.\ How did Mr. Hyde celebrate Halloween?\ With a Jekyll lantern.\ Puns Spooken Here is the perfect gift for all your fiends and the other little...
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International Punsters Richard Lederer and P.C. Swanson present the greatest collection ever assembled of Halloween preys on words, including special cateGORYs of pumpkin ghost, zombie, ghoul, witch, werewolf, and skeleton puns. You'll also learn about the historical origins of Halloween and giggle through punderful biographies of Dracula and Frankenstein.
You may well have heard the seasonal prey upon words "What do you call an empty hot dog?" Answer: A hollow weenie.\ But you may not have realized how capacious is the tricky treat bag of Halloween puns. There's something about the lore of Halloween that inspires tour de farces at the highest level of punnery. What this book will offer you is a veritable Bill of Frights.\ Punnery is largely the trick of compacting two or more ideas within a single word or expression. Punnery challenges us to apply the greatest pressure per square syllable of language. Punnery surprises us by flouting the law of nature that pretends that two things cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Punnery is an exercise of the mind at being concise. Punnery is a rewording experience.\ Let's start by cooking up a punderful menu for Halloween. I know you won't be able to resist goblin up this full-corpse meal. Bone appetit!
A Feast of Halloween Puns/11II A Ghost Graduate Course/23III Funny Bones/37IV Lifestyles of the Witch and Famous/ 43IV Word Prey in a Jugular Vein/55VI Puns That Keep Us in Stitches/75VII More Movie Monsters/81VIII Ghoulishness/89
