Hired Pun
Created | Updated Feb 1, 2006
Sex in the office was not extra-curricular.
Yet, the stringed instruments were always in tune, despite the temperature problems with the reeds and the woodwinds.
Writing reviews of movies, books and music you couldn't stand on a deadline was like writing bad code for a computer OS you had no faith in. The worst job was that of the Entertainment editor, because no matter how good the writing actually was, he had to follow the publisher's guidelines and paste a Headline or subheader on each story or column and include at least one bad pun EVERY PUCKY TIME...
Coffee break. No latte.
Life without parole. Life without a thesaurus. Life without wit,
standards, fear of a small platoon of schoolmarms breaking down the doors to lambast the offending punster with stiff noodles until he promised to never pun again...