* 'Out in the porch's sagging floor, Leaves got up in a coil and hissed, Blindly struck at my knee and missed.'
* George Bush talked during his campaign about 'compassionate conservatism', which to many liberals sounds like a(n) ___________________.
* 'Necessity is the mother of invention.'
* 'The poor people of Ireland should rid themselves of poverty by selling their children to the rich to eat.'
* The phrases 'the humming bee', 'the cackling hen', and 'the buzzing saw' are examples of ________________.
* 'How many times have I told you to clean your room?'
* 'To err is human, to forgive divine.'
* 'My uncle passed away in 1970.'
* 'When Detroit increased auto production recently, Wall Street applauded and the White House took credit.'
* 'My rancher uncle bought 50 head of cattle last week.'
* 'My son's teacher made it clear that cheating on tests was no laughing matter.'
* 'Hail divinest Melancholy, whose saintly visage is too bright to hit the sense of human sight.'
* 'I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!'
* 'Christianity shone like a beacon in the black night of paganism.'
* In Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis are buried President Benjamin Harrison, 3 Vice-Presidents, 15 Senators and Governors, and John Dillinger.'
* Danny Zuko was forced to undertake much embarrassed combing of greasy hair when he failed his History final. It was pointed out that in the essay section he had Medieval warriors fighting for ancient Mesopotamian culture in his composition entitled:
* Which of these slogans uses a pun that would suit a telephone company wanting to stimulate its male customers to use the phone for their amorous phone-calls?
* Which of these slogans uses punning to promote the selling of a particular brand of whisky?
* "We'll give you sound advice" would be a suitable pun for :___________?
* Which of these paraphrases might be O.K. as a pun if you wanted to sell" a BMW with a big windscreen"?