eggcorn or pun?

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sun Apr 29 20:09:48 UTC 2007


Sometimes it's...um, hard to tell.  Especially with spam, such as
this one from today's shipment:

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Turn your life into a holiday with Viagra Pro
Your woman will be stroked dumb by your instrument Soft Viagra.
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(It also strikes me--or is that strokes me?--that "Soft Viagra" isn't
the best marketing ploy.)

LH

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