Thursday, October 6, 2011

Pun of the day

John Podhoretz retweeted a tweet from New York Times reporter Peter Lattman:

The Nobel victory of Tomas Tranströmer has got to be a devastating blow to his archrival, Gerhard Göböt.

3 comments:

David Chute said...

Funny, but not sure it's actually a pun. Haven't had a chance to Google it yet because I work for living.

Tulkinghorn said...

You know, I wondered about that, but because I work for a living, I decided to seize the moment and post anyway....

If only I had been better educated.

David Chute said...

"A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings."

IOW, it is, sort of.