Poe Puns

POETRY!

Han's hot first

Thought it was Corvid-19, but then bird flu away. Think I will see him nevermore.

A melancholy

My husband and I are trying to think of creative chicken names for our new chickens. I want to call them literary puns, and so far I have the following:

Ernest Henningway

Charles Chickens

Eggar Allan Poe

Jane Aust-Hen

Lay K Rowling

Any other great suggestions?

he's just a Poe boy from a Poe family

Poetry

That way I always pay less, nevermore

She just can't stop Raven about it

He re-Poe-ed them.

He was a Poe source of information.

The Poelice

It was in Poe taste.

• George Washwington
• Leonarcrow da Vinci
• Eagle Allen Poe
• Harry S. Toucan
• Teddy Dodosevelt
• Charles Duckens
• Octavian Owlgustus
• Flysaac Newton
• Benchicken Franklin
• Gullysses S. Grant
• Vincent Van Goose
• John Lhawk
• Charlecrane
• Pengthoven
• Nikquaila Tesla
• Jean-Jacques Roostsseau
• Charles Darwren
• Rheasus Christ
• Broodha
• King Loony XIV
• Nenepoleon Bonaparte
• Mahootma Gandhi
• Winstint Churchill
• Genghis Swan
• Pladove
• Aleggsander the Great
• Paul the Apostail
• Lark Twain
• Dante Aliturkey
• Michelangswallow
• Cardinal Marx
• Albatross Lincoln
• Robin E. Lee
• Adolf Swiftler
• Alextanager Hamilton
• Ibis Presley
• Ronald Raven
• Arnestotle
• Emuhammad
• Sir Francis Beakon
• Tchaikovskylark
• Christfowler Columbus
• Finchard Nixon
• Henry VIII
• Albert Einstork
• Thomas Jayfferson
• William Shrikespeare
• Woodcock Wilson
• King Chorioles I of England
• Johann Sebastian Flock

Edit: formatting

Edgar Allan Poe wrote on both.

German Poe

And I said Barber Allen Poe

It'll change everything!

I have written this book to sweep away all misunderstandings about the crafty art of punnery and to convince you that the pun is well worth celebrating.... After all, the pun is mightier than the sword, and these days you are much more likely to run into a pun than into a sword. [A pun is a witticism involving the playful use of a word in different senses, or of words which differ in meaning but sound alike.]

Scoffing at puns seems to be a conditioned reflex, and through the centuries a steady barrage of libel and slander has been aimed at the practice of punning. Nearly three hundred years ago John Dennis sneered, “A pun is the lowest form of wit,” a charge that has been butted and rebutted by a mighty line of pundits and punheads.

Henry Erskine, for example, has protested that if a pun is the lowest form of wit, “It is, therefore, the foundation of all wit.” Oscar Levant has added a tag line: “A pun is the lowest form of humor—when you don’t think of it first.” John Crosbie and Bob Davies have responded to Dennis with hot, cross puns: “...If someone complains that punning is the lowest form of humor you can tell them that poetry is verse.”

Samuel Johnson, the eighteenth century self-appointed custodian of the English language, once thundered, “To trifle with the vocabulary which is the vehicle of social intercourse is to tamper with the currency of human intelligence. He who would violate the sanctities of his mother tongue would invade the recesses of the national till without remorse... ”

Joseph Addison pronounced that the seeds of punning are in the minds of all men, and tho’ they may be subdued by reason, reflection, and good sense, they will be very apt to shoot up in the greatest genius, that which is not broken and cultivated by the rules of art.

Far from being invertebrate, the inveterate punster is a brave entertainer. He or she loves to create a three-ring circus of words: words clowning, words teetering on tightropes, words swinging from tent tops, words thrusting their head into the mouths of lions. Punnery can be highly entertaining, but it is always a risky business. The humor can fall on its face, it can lose its balance and plunge into the sawdust, or it can be decapitated by the snapping shut of jaws. While circus performers often receive laughter or applause for their efforts, punsters often draw an obligatory groan for theirs. But the fact that most people groan at, rather than laugh at, puns doesn’t mean that the punnery isn’t fu

My brother opens up his Christmas present which was a book of Edgar Allen Poe stories.

To which my grandpa immediately says, "I heard the critics were really Raven about that one!"

POETRY!

POETRY!