I read Gormenghast in a fit of pique.

My reading of Gateway was interrupted by a librarian with a pole.

I'd like to buy all the Thursday Next books, but I can't aFforde them.

OB, you said just "Puns," not (what you probably meant, and assumed would go without saying in a collection of intelligent people such as wot we got here.)

Soooo, here's one I read recently.

A pair of crows was sitting on a tree branch, calling out to all other passing crows to join them. They called and called but no other crows took heed, and finally the pair was arrested. What were the charges?

Your clue: they were jeered by a passing exaltation of skylarks.

Second clue (and a dead giveaway.): Google (unquoted) "an exaltation of skylarks crows."

More reading: I did not know that exultation and exaltation were two different words until I misspelled and saw not the red underline of shame.

Edited to add, "Heechee!" "Bless you." to SM.

Pohl was born the same year as my father (but Pohl's still alive (I think)), and I've read just about everything that he and Kornbluth have written. They don't write stuff like that any more. Then again, they (Reynolds, Kage, Banks, Gibson, Niven...)... They get close.

"You kids get off my lawn!"



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I cannot draw the complete answer from the question but would it have some mention of 'without due caws' in it?

'without due caws' !!!

I do like that.

No, the huge clue was my second clue. Google wot I said above and you will see this as the first hit:

(baltimorebirdclub.org/gnchat.html) (Not important.)

... that a group of crows is called a "murder of crows", and a group of skylarks ( found in ... BC, and on San Juan Island, WA) is called an "exaltation of skylarks".

So, the two crows were attempting to gather enough crows into the group to qualify for the group name of "A Murder of Crows."





Attempting to form a Murder.





Attempted Murder

Oh well, please yourselves, these kids today, what do they teach them in schools today, not to keep of my lawn, that's a fact, it wouldn't have been like this when I was a lad. Uphill both ways, it was, and a foot of snow to boot.

Nurse!

My neighbour keeps having girl babies and calls them all by the same name. She's always giving herself heirs and Graces.

eczema marks the spot

good one Bunners!

In a rash moment I bought 50 shades of Allergic Reactions

Right off topic I know, but I saw a book with the title 'See Australia and Die" and it contained stories of all kinds of deaths from stingrays to trees falling on you on a calm day.

A good read for anyone contemplating a holiday here.

For the record in 65 years I have met sharks in then water and not been bitten, have swum into the tentacles, or was it eleven tackles, of a jellyfish and only ended up with a numb chest (it was cold water and I think the thing was dead or a reasonable equivalent thereof) and been bitten by a white back spider ( a less poisonous cousin of the redback).

So it is really safer than walking across London through Little Jamaica to Streatham in a fog at night.

There's mortar life than bricklaying.

There's mortar life than bricklaying.

My son in law needed a new knee. It's in his jeans.

The Great Gaspy by the well known asthmatic, E. Coughs Fitzgerald

I know a lot of people in America called Sir Fflint.

Everybody's sir fflint, sir fflint USA.

Would you like to come to my house and have a cup of tea and a piece of Lola Vavoomsheeza Tart?

I met a naked miser one day who was named - the miser I mean, not the day - skin fflint

Skin Fflints of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your..... oh yeah, you lost them, you lost your shirt too. Skin Fflints of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your dimples.

I was a little sad and kneelingmy hands across the grass.
I was feeling forlorn

Gardening puns make me laugh...hoe,hoe, hoe.

New television series about a call centre coming out soon

Its called Game of Phones

The critics say its quite engaging but its yet to connect with audiences