Away with Words: An Irreverent Tour Through the World of Pun Competitions, (Paperback)

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If you're going to read about obsessive word play competitions, I'd recommend Word Freak on Scrabble competitions instead. That's an experience. This book is reasonably well written, but once you know what competitive punning is about, there's not much more to learn. I did enjoy the discussion of...

from Judiex

Some people like puns. Some people hate puns. And some people absolutely LOVE them. AWAY WITH WORDS is about the third group. Last fall, my daughter and daughter-in-law gave my husband a game called Punderdome. Two words are drawn from a deck and the players have a short time to think of puns uti...

from nmele

At the end of the author's year-long exploration of puns and competitive punning, he felt somewhat let down and was ready for a break from wordplay. I kept asking myself why anyone would ever feel anything but let down after spending a year working at pun-making. It's supposed to be fun!

from DavidWineberg

Waterboarding the English language Puns are bottomless. Comedian Steve Allen used to collect the so-called best and publish them in books, but he knew he could never have the definitive collection, because they just kept coming. At the Algonquin Round Table in the 1920s, the best and the brightes...

from BraveNewBks

I really love this kind of microhistory (I think that might be the correct genre?). Basically I love learning about tiny niche hobby communities and the people who inhabit them. And this is the nichest of the niche -- who even knew pun competitions existed? I certainly didn't, despite having live...