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Craft Smart @craftsmart (265) • United States 7 Oct 17

If you think about it, online forums like this have a certain culture to them. And forums for different audiences have unique cultures and are sometimes drastically different from forums like this one. I think it is interesting...

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Have You Recently Thought About the Popularity of the Status or Term of 'Going Steady'?

MarleneAM @MarleneAM (293) 10 Oct 16

Back in the day, there was a popular terminology that you may be very familiar with, regarding dating -- specifically, related to the seriousness of a relationship: 'going steady...' is the term, that does not seem to be used...

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This is for those of you who can't see past your trees.......

rebelann1949 @rebelann (117224) • El Paso, Texas 31 Jul 16

Ok, that was intended as a pun. I know that when there are lots of trees around you have a hard time seeing a horizon so I thought I'd share a view of what it looks like when there are no trees to obscure the...

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When a female pilot is flying an aircraft, is the aircraft un-man-ed?

Robert Centauro @ourlot (982) 14 Jun 16

Do aircraft need men to be manned?

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....And The Work Week Begins

STOUTjodee @STOUTjodee (3670) • United States 9 May 16

Good Monday morning to all!! Hope all you mothers had a blessed Mother's Day yesterday. Was in contact (one way or another) with all 3 of my kids!! Also, called my mom!! My husband...

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What's ET Short For?

Just an Ordinary Owl? @owlwings (43897) • Cambridge, England 26 Dec 15

"Because he's only got little legs". This was a joke I had in a Christmas cracker and is a good example of the traps which English sets for the unwary. Of course, what most people would understand this question to mean would be...

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So Much Pun

lilBro @lilBro (67) • Israel 24 Jun 10

somuchpun.com So Much Pun is a website where users submit pictures that show puns in them. It's quite funny, even though some times I've never heard of that expression, so it's hard to se the pun.

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Have you ever had a play on words or do you have any pun words.

jerryplum @jerryplum (74) • China 31 Jul 09

Like.. He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends(Benz). Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. or MBA means Married But Available. etc.. Do you have any these fun...

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Buzzing Cabbages?

zhuuraan @zhuuraan (961) • United States 7 Oct 08

Hey people. No, I didn't grow a beehive in a bunch of veggies lol. I was wondering if you have ever said something just to be odd, and in another context it sounds really off the wall? Earlier, well yesterday technically, my...

My Two Cents

SaintAnne @SaintAnne (5453) • United States 9 Sep 08

I was about to go to log out when I saw my earnings change from $8 to $8.02 and it's not even midnight yet. I have read other posts here where myLotters find their earnings lose a few cents but have never read one that talks about...

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Poetic 'Justice'...?

ppcdude @ppcdude (150) 15 Nov 07

Dam Man.

Chryssi @Chryssi (828) • United States 10 Apr 07

I remember this little pun from years ago. I went to the dam to get some dam water, but the dam man said I couldn't have any dam water. So, I told the dam man I didn't want his dam water anyway.

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About Pun or Paronomasia...

kopitalisme @kopitalisme (152) • Indonesia 23 Jan 07

According to Wikipedia, ´pun´ or ´paronomasia´ is a figure of speech which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words or phrases for rhetorical effet, wether humorous or serious. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paronomasia...

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sootix @sootix (92) • India 4 Jan 07

Chicken or The Egg?

OhPenYin @OhPenYin (289) • United States 4 Jan 07

Which came first?? Do you know?

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A pun/joke you have heard recently?

aureliaz @aureliaz (1177) • Singapore 24 Oct 06

Mine is "I fired my masseuse today. She just rubbed me the wrong way"

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