Friday, April 18, 2008

International Daffynitions Month


THAT"S JUST DAFT!


Do you wash your dirty dishes indistinct? Did you see any parasites besides the Eiffel Tower when you were in France? Are you confused by my daffynitions yet? As you may have already guessed, a daffynition is a type of pun that involves reinterpreting an existing word which sounds like a different word or group of words (indistinct = in the sink; parasites = Paris sites). If this is the first time you've heard about daffynitions, congratulations, you now have an entire month to practice and play around with them!

April is International Daffynitions Month (conveniently coinciding with National Humor Month), and that means it's time to pay tribute to this amusing form of wordplay. So set your alarms (what an octopus is) and head over to the dockyard (a physician's garden) for a month of pleasurable punning and wacky wordplay!

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