P.U.N.Y. (Punsters United Nearly Yearly)

P.U.N.Y. [as an on-line group] is 10 years old today - that makes it officially a
pre-teen - three more years and we'll be celebrating its
bar mitzvah - or perhaps, given the nature of most of our
posts, we'll be cerebrating - and no, that's not a Chinese
joke.

Where would we be without our leerless feeder? But I think
he's misnamed - if he fed that much, he wouldn't be so skinny.

And here's the skinny on PUNY - we've lost a few members but
gained a few, so we're really not puny at all.

If I had a sister who had a daughter who didn't bathe
regularly, she would be my pyew-niece.

I hear that this year the name of the Pun-Off is to be changed
to the Pun-Often. Though there are some who pun only off 'n'
on again.

Which is no relation to the opera Eugene On Again. (Of course,
speaking of opera tempts me into another Carmen joke--what book
did Bizet's heroine read in bed? The Carmen Sutra.) We hope
all you PUNYites will Carmen join us in Austin for the Pun-Off.
But whether you do or not, keep your computer dials set right
here at W-PUNY, where we're always broadcasting good bad
puns...and where we hope to see you still hanging around playing
with words for another 10 years...and then some.

Cynthia MacGregor
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Like a crooked fence line, our posts are not always in order,
but venue are looking for good places to play with words, a
visit to PUNY is always in order.

"PUN EARLY - PUN-OFFIN" That's my watchword for this year.
("tick-tick" that's another of my watchwords.)

After ten long jeers of wicked weird play, we're still halfing
a ball. Let's keep that ball rolling.

Gary Hallock

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GH said "we're still halfing a ball. Let's keep that ball rolling."
Hey! Watch it!

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Of course ten long years is a decay'd.

Joseph Harris

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And we know if it is a decay's, it's almost a half life.

Stan

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Does this mean that leerless leader is now tenyeared and can thus
puntificate in the lab without fear of redress or even undress?

Norm S
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No, it means that every pun I make from here on will be under duress
and the rest of the world will hardly emeritus.

Gary Hallock

Punsters United Nearly Yearly was formed in 1990 as a way for past and future participants of the Pun-Off to keep in touch with each other and to have their opinions and input heard by the producers. As is often the case, pun thing led to an ardor. Within a year the foxes seemed in charge of the hen house. After several surprisingly fruitful meetings, founding members of PUNY established the first written "Rules of Competition," the core "Topics" list and established several other "traditions" as fixtures of the event.(See Pun-Off registration page)

Today P.U.N.Y. encompasses many more people who live and breathe the spirit of the Pun-Off without ever having attended. This is possible only through the magic of the modern internet. By subscribing to any of several lists that PUNY offers for the "jeering impaired," you too, and keep upwit all the news and nuances from the netwits of the O.Henry Pun-Off. Simply send a blank e-mail message to
punoff-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.

GARY HALLOCK - (PUNY founder and "Leerless Feeder.")

Dateline Austin, TX - April 2005:

Here in Austin we're about to be blessed with a bunch of new highways and byways, many of which are destined to be toll roads. There is some sentiment that one of our new bypass routes might be named after our local guitar hero, Willie Nelson. Some conservatives are not happy about this prospect, since Willie is a left wing, dope smokin' liberal. In his column in today's paper, John Kelso contested this notion saying that, by not paying his taxes, Nelson might actually be considered the first Neocon. I couldn't help chiming into the debate by composing a limerick that includes the most natural pun/gag that Kelso chose to ignore.

A toll road named "Willie?" You're jokin'
But Kelso left one gag unspoken
If everyone knowed
They was on his road
They might pay their toll by a tokin'

Here's a good first line for a new Willie tune: "I'll take the high road and you take the..."

With everyone driving with the munchies, I hope they have plenty of tollhouse cookies!

- GARY HALLOCK
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Rumor has it that LA is looking into the same solution, figuring it might do a lot to reduce road rage... ("Hey, man, cut offfff again! LOL. Oh, well, I'll get there eventually...") - Bob D
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Under the circumstances, the road is bound to be fraught with pot holes.

The state and city can get together to build these roads - a joint effort. - Cyn
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The stretch of Willie's highway which passes near the airport may occasionally receive precipitation from airliner's toilets flushing overhead. Blue ice crying in the rain.

I guess if someone gets sideswiped by a pest control truck on this route you could say they were roach clipped.

The city council has been arguing over this question so I presume Austin's marijuana get involved. He's a big dope too.

- GARY HALLOCK
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I would love to move to Texas, but that awful steerdust, is always on my mind. - Marie
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Lukenbach on it I think this thread is getting Crazy! - GARY HALLOCK
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I thought I knew most pot terminology but I don't understand half the things this thread reefers to. I'd better go home, groan and call it a day.

- Cyn (who is punning as always yet really is baffled by half the posts in this thread--I never heard of any pot called Steerdust or Lukenbach or Crazy, and what was that about blue ice--it sounds like a pun on blue eyes, but I never heard of pot called that either.)
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For pot or whatever I suggest going to visit cut and shoot. - Norm S
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I'm a centaur of the road man myself and this thread is taking quite a toll on my understanding.

I assume that Mr Nelson followed his namesake in misusing a telescope? I bet what he saw wasn't ships, either.

- Joseph Harris
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Considering the fact that Cyn probably has never heard a Willie Nelson song, it's little wonder the things she saw in each message in this thread headed stranger and stranger. - GARY HALLOCK