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God Bless the Pun!
Apr 14 2008, Alpheus

Edgar Allan Poe perfectly summarised the pun-effect when he said, “The goodness of the true pun is in direct ratio to its intolerability.” And when the ‘intolerability’ is with reference to the Pope, the levels are certain to be quite magnified. In...

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