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A Bit of Wordplay is Still a Thing

Danger comes when things travel too far

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In its way, a pun is as much a thing as any other object. It does stuff. It moves around in the world. Sometimes what it does has unintended consequences.

For instance, there’s a movie from the 2000s where there’s a pun — just an averagely amusing play on words…