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Parton punned, adding, “That was such a baaad joke.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2023

Perhaps the Anthropocene has already become an anthropomeme: punned and pimped into stuplimity, its presence in popular discourse often just a virtue signal that merely mandates the user to proceed with the work of consumption.

From The Guardian • Apr. 1, 2016

He created sentences that punned with double meanings, and arranged elaborate pranks for his sister and friends — these often involved water balloons.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2014

Perhaps he still smarted at the “Joys and Sarris” subtitle of Kael’s 1963 screed; she had punned on a mispronunciation of his name, which rhymes with Harris, not Doris.

From Time • Jun. 21, 2012

See the name punned on in Night dcccli.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir