How To Use Punster In A Sentence
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Indeed, the punsters might come over and kick your wrasse.
Making Light: Boomdeyada boomdeyada boomdeyada boomdeyada
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Drogo, ever the clever Dothraki punster, says that he'll give Viserys "a golden crown that men shall tremble to behold" and then coronates the would-be king by pouring molten gold over his head.
Game of Thrones Postmortem: Harry Lloyd on Viserys' Golden Crown
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Charles Lamb, a notorious punster, explained that the pun is “a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.”
Punditry
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Jesus, if the Bible is to be believed, was an inveterate punster.
IBM's Watson wins! First Jeopardy! -- next, bad puns?
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Stephen Leacock said that the inveterate punster follows conversation as a shark follows a ship.
IBM's Watson wins! First Jeopardy! -- next, bad puns?
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In Maureen Dowd's New York Times Jan. 30 puff piece " No Axe to Grind " about the departure from the White House of senior presidential adviser David Axelrod, she notes that although he is not tech savvy, "The avid punster offered a parting pun at the 8:30 a.m. meeting [in the White House] — urging everyone to 'plow forward' on a plan for genetically produced [sic] alfalfa.
Making Political Hay With Genetically Modified Alfalfa
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Marino abounds in puerile conceits; but they are not far-fetched, like those of Donne and Cowley; they generally lie on the surface, and often consist of nothing more than a mere play upon words; so that, if to be a punster is to be a metaphysician, Marino is a poetical Heraclitus.
Lives of the English Poets
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As an inveterate punster myself, I know the danger this poses to the human race.
IBM's Watson wins! First Jeopardy! -- next, bad puns?
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Creative wordplay can enhance literacy, turn a punster into a pundit and lead us back to a primal recognition of the power of the word to impact the quality of our world.
The Language You Use Frames the Way You Think
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It's all in the timing, and a good punster waits for the exact moment to be left to his own devises.
Punditry
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I'm sending that to my Dad, who is both a punster and a third-order Benedictine.
Making Light: Open thread 137
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Much of this great roadway is metaled with _kunkur_, an oolitic limestone found near the surface of the soil in Hindustan; and all Anglo-India laughed at the joke of an irreverent punster who, _apropos_ of the fact that this application of kunkur to the road-bed was made under the orders of
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876
