puns and punning

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The hobbit companion

1997
The author reveals the crafty puns and riddles, hidden meanings, and mythical associations beneath the Hobbit's thrilling surface.

The weighty word book

1985
Provides definitions for twenty-six vocabulary words from abasement to zealot with stories containing puns that provide mnemonic devices for remembering the definitions.

Remember the a la mode

riddles and puns
1983
A collection of old and new riddles, including "What did the piece of pie say to the man who was about to eat it?".

The world's wackiest Spanish joke book

500 puns guaranteed to drive you across the R?o Groan-de!
2007
Teaches Spanish vocabulary through five hundred jokes and quips, the answers to which are puns on Spanish words. Includes related fun facts.

World's silliest jokes

1997
Hundreds of jokes, puns, riddles, and other witticisms.

Wags to witches

more jokes, riddles, and puns
1981
A collection of riddles, the answers to which involve plays on words.

The wit of Madame Fifi

over 500 puns with a French twist
1998
A collection of over 500 puns featuring fractured French or blended with English. Explanations of the puns are included.

I can't tell you

2004
While fighting with his best friend and college roommate over a girl, Jake says something he regrets, then begins communicating only through notes and letters, but when he wants to tell the girl how he really feels about her, his silence and penchant for puns get in the way.

Dumb clucks!

jokes about chickens
1987
A collection of jokes about chickens, e.g. What happened when the chicken ate cement? She laid a sidewalk.

Jamaica sandwich?

1996
A humorous rhyming tale, filled with puns based on geographical names.

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