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Madhulk Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Headline puns...

You know, Lois, journalists have spent
the last decade unearthing my life,
turning whatever dirt they can find into bad headline puns.
Turning everything they find for him into bad slanders?
  

Top answer

They find negative information on him, then make light of it with crude humor. A pun is a play on words: (Michael's father is about to go on trial): We're worried about my father's hearing. Oh, with my father, it's the vision.

  • They find negative information on him, then make light of it with crude humor.
  • A pun is a play on words: (Michael's father is about to go on trial): We're worried about my father's hearing.
  • Oh, with my father, it's the vision.
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They find negative information on him, then make light of it with crude humor.

A pun is a play on words:

(Michael's father is about to go on trial):

We're worried about my father's hearing.

Oh, with my father, it's the vision.

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