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  2. Joke - Wikipedia

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    A joke can be reused in different joke cycles; an example of this is the same Head & Shoulders joke refitted to the tragedies of Vic Morrow, Admiral Mountbatten and the crew of the Challenger space shuttle. [note 4] [47] These cycles seem to appear spontaneously, spread rapidly across countries and borders only to dissipate after some time ...

  3. Bilingual pun - Wikipedia

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    In English PURRgatory, in Spanish PurGATOrio. A bilingual pun is a pun created by a word or phrase in one language sounding similar to a different word or phrase in another language. The result of a bilingual pun can be a joke that makes sense in more than one language (a joke that can be translated) or a joke which requires understanding of ...

  4. Pun - Wikipedia

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    Punch, 25 February 1914.The cartoon is a pun on the word "Jamaica", which pronunciation [dʒəˈmeɪkə] is a homonym to the clipped form of "Did you make her?". [1] [2]A pun, also known as a paronomasia in the context of linguistics, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. [3]

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    Feb. 16—Manchester public works officials have been tasked with developing a plan by next month to address concerns from residents involving ticketing and towing policies during snow emergencies.

  6. Bad grammar gets parking violation thrown out

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  7. Bad grammar gets parking violation thrown out

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    You might want to after learning this: An Ohio appeals court threw out a parking citation all because of a missing comma. Although the woman completely admits to parking her car where she shouldn ...

  8. Facetiae - Wikipedia

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    The Facetiae is an anthology of jokes by Poggio Bracciolini (1380–1459), first published in 1470. It was the first printed joke book. The collection, "the most famous jokebook of the Renaissance", [1] is notable for its inclusion of scatological jokes and tales, six of the tales involving flatulation humor and six involving defecation.

  9. Humour - Wikipedia

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    Humour (Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement.The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humours (Latin: humor, "body fluid"), controlled human health and emotion.