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By JAMES J. KILPATRICK
Unhrenal Proa
The producers of “Shadowlands,” based on the love affair of C.S. Lewis and Joy Davidman, set out to make a three-hanky movie. Stanley Kauffmann, reviewing the film in The New Republic, said the actors had plenty of chances to do their dampest.
What a sweet line! Every lover of the language admires a fine simile. An apt metaphor is a thing of beauty. But a truly clever pun is a work of art in a class by itself. Let us award Mr. Kauffmann four stars for that one.
A few weeks before this little stroke of genius, the pastor of a Lutheran church in Philadelphia decided to go easy on low-income members of his congregation. Pastor Glenn Zorb recognized that not everyone is fit to be tithed.
In 1990 the Pun Foundation, publishers of a newsletter called The Pundit, singled out a dozen contributors for special acclaim. For example:
In the summer of 1989, a prolonged drought played havoc with truck farms. Frozen food companies had a terrible year. Fresh peas were shriveled, eggplants were small, tomatoes and other vegetables died on the vine. As a result, many were culled but few were frozen.
Did you know that William Tell, a famed archer, was also a championship bowler? His entire family excelled at the sport. As his game grew, following the story of young Bill and the apple, every merchant in Switzerland recruited at least a cousin for his team. After a while it became hard to be sure for whom the Tells bowl.
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