In example.  While living in Belgium, our landlord showed us the river Meuse
in flood stage.  It flooded his basement and he had to shut his gate to keep
his firewood from floating down stream.  When he showed me a picture of the
street sign out front indicating slippery roads (with the water almost
covering the sign), I attempted, "Rather aMeusing."  He looked shocked, "It
was not funny.  We had to shovel silt for days."  It took some time to
explain my attempt at humor.

Guy
www.hptraderonline.com


> Someone pointed out that it's been said that "puns are only found in
> English", yet examples in other languages abound -- while I don't have the
> slightest clue about reading or speaking Thai, I would presume jokes based
> on words that sound similar when spoken would "lose something in the
> translation" ;)
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