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Friday, January 07, 2005
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SHOOTS CHIROPRACTIC SCHOOL, AND LEAVES UD calls upon the nation’s journalists to impose a moratorium now on puns relating to the controversial chiropractic school planned for Florida State University. So far, the story, and the many plays on words its chroniclers in the press have not been able to resist (“make no bones…readjust the priorities…a bonehead move…show some backbone…any spine the board may muster…force the so-far supine board…school a nagging pain…”), have been restricted to the southland, but as the item inches north and west, UD fears another slew of puns as papers as far as Boston and California start in. “Pun Fatigue” is the name that punsters like UD give to the enervating condition brought on by the overuse of puns - a condition that, far from yielding the characteristic jollity of punning, leaves one spent, sad, and reviewing the basis of one’s existence. |