[Lexicog] Turkey

[David Tuggy]

One I have enjoyed for years, though I'm not sure if it is rightfully to 
be called a pun, was advice given on the radio on the topic of "How to 
prepare your turkey for Thanksgiving Dinner". The gist of it was that 
you should break it to him gently, something like "Tom, are you religious?"

So is that a pun on the word "prepare", or not?

--David Tuggy

Fritz Goerling wrote:

> Well, Bill,
>  
> Who does not have a sense of humor? Sometimes we do not have a sense
> of humor in an area where we are sensitive. Or we prefer a certain kind of
> humor, like wry humor, or humor that evokes a hearty belly-laugh, or puns.
> So saying "x does not have a sense of humor" might mean "they do not
> have MY kind of humor" or "they do not laugh at my jokes." 
>  
> Here is a pun:
> What is a full turkey called? - Stuffed.
>  
> Any puns about "turkeys" on this list of word-lovers among whom there are
> certainly a lot of punsters?
>  
> Fritz
>
>
>     The origin of the notion that such-and-such a people do not
>     joke or do not make puns etc. is probably worth of investigation
>     in its own right. I once encountered the statement, in a pamphlet
>     distributed to American soldiers by the Occupation authorities,
>     that: "The Japanese have no sense of humor."
>
>     --
>     Bill Poser, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
>     http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wjposer/
>     <http://www.ling.upenn.edu/%7Ewjposer/> billposer at alum.mit.edu
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