[Fwd: language related humor (fwd)]

[Donald M. Lance]

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Subject: language related humor

Here is a fun web page. (It might even have some instructional value)

http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/


A sampler:

Lexicon

       School days (20 Oct 99)
       Taxi (13 Oct 99)
       Newspaper screwups (12 Oct 99)
       Glibquips: Funny words by funny women
                        (including Gracie Allen,
                        Mae West, and Molly Ivins)
                (11 Oct 99)
       No (in two parts) (8 Oct 99)
       Groucho Mark (7 Oct 99)
       Wives (7 Oct 99)
       Funny signs in Great Britain (6 Oct 99)