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Why isn't the desert arable land? Aren't there enough Arabs living there already?

Do florists have bouquet lists to complete before they die?

Should decriminalisation of marijuana be debated in a joint session of Congress? And should it be part of the Green New deal?

Speaking of the Old West, I always wondered about the location of the famous Punfight at the OK Corral. Was that just down the street from the Well-that's-alright Corral?

Hoo boy! Who among us doesn't appreciate a tasty pun or two? We even give a bit of leeway to the odd 'groaner' now and then (Should an indicted apple be judged by a jury of its pears? Groan.). Puns, jokes, limericks, longer stories, cartoons. Headlines we couldn't have invented. The words History didn't record. An Alternative Dictionary. The Future Times newspaper. All this and more, including stories by a punning policeman on some of the cases he broke. (Crime and Pun-ishment, indeed.)

LOL. If laugher is the best medicine, open wide!

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I'm a dual citizen of both the UK and New Zealand, 'Down Under' being where I was raised and educated after a fashion, for better or for worse. Nowadays I spend most of my time at home, within walking distance of the famous/infamous Bridge on the River Kwai in Thailand. Here I look back in baffled wonder on a life of misspent frivolity and chronic underachievement, including spells in advertising, publishing, and English language teaching in various countries of Asia, and New Zealand. I'm still beset most days by puns, paradoxes, conundrums, dilemmas, ironies, and various other absurdities that I try my best to record when I'm able to catch them.

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