{"product_id":"9781626369368","title":"Words Gone Wild: Puns, Puzzles, Poesy, Palaver, Persiflage, and Poppycock","description":"Chock-full of jokes and entertaining twists of the tongue, this lighthearted but scholarly guide to humorous language is a sure're hit with word lovers. The examples are entertainingly bawdy, with a delightful narrative voice in word sleuth and author, Jim Bernhard. He provides examples and puzzles, teaching a smidgen of historical and etymological scholarship, but above all, amusing his audience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Puns from Greek dramatists, Shakespeare, the Bible, George S. Kaufman, and Groucho Marx vie for attention with comical spoonerisms, droll malapropisms, witty anagrams, and humorous palindromes—plus original material by the author—including limericks, clerihews, crossword puzzles, acrostic puzzles, tonguetwisters, and other kinds of word play. Some examples:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e     \u003cli\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhy does a match box? Because it sees a tin can.     \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e     \u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003e Time ?ies like an arrow. Fruit ?ies like a banana.     \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e     \u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003e The pony was unable to talk because he was a little hoarse.     \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e     \u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003e Two peanuts went into a bar. One was a salted.     \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e     \u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003e The chicken that crossed the road was pure poultry in motion.     \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e     \u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003e As the gardener said when asked why he was cutting grass with a pair of scissors: “That’s all there is; there isn’t any mower.”     \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Skyhorse Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47136120209648,"sku":"9781626369368","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781626369368_p0.jpg?v=1763866001","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781626369368","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}