The unintended pun in everyday life.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Daily Pun # 3

I had to get this in as soon as I saw it/them. If the second one is on purpose, it's still a beautifully subtle and nicely written pun. And if it's not intended, it is the best Unintended Pun and covers the most ground, so to speak (that itself was unintended) of any unintended pun I've ever seen. It's from an AP article in Yahoo! today. Click here for the article.
March 17, 2011
Chunk of Calif. coastal highway falls into Pacific
AP: “"There is too much going down here (pun 1) to allow an extended closure," Alan Perlmutter told the newspaper. Perlmutter is a partner in the Big Sur River Inn, one of the many inns and lodges that depend on the dollars of tourists drawn to dramatic coastal vistas, where forested mountainsides plunge into blue seas (pun 2).”

3 comments:

  1. HaHa. Plunging mountainsides. . .

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  2. And as they say--you can't make up this stuff!

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  3. I found this one in a World article about NASA discontinuing its space shuttle division.

    Speaking of how the ending of the program will hurt researchers:

    "In the meantime, researchers studying the effects of weightlessness will have to find alternatives for getting experiments aloft."

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