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Suffix - Prefix Puns

SUFFIX   -  PREFIX    PUNS


Mispronounce inter-family  relationships   *
And we  bury the family   -  its security slips:
Anti -freeze  divorced  Uncle freeze  at last,
After yesterday’s weather fore-cast, (maybe an aft-cast?)
She married an  ‘im-migrant ,  a male  arriver from abroad, *
Although he  loved an ‘er-igrant, a  female arriver, obviously  a  broad.*
At their wedding feast was abundance
Seen  in the pastry two-step   -  a very merry dance.
She thought it selfish for though his trade was to sell-fish
They ate lobster-rific,   huge monster lobster   dish:
‘Twas subterranean  (from  bed of the Mediterranean)
A celibate creature , a sort of  anti-climax crustacean.
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Note

*Verb  “to  inter”  means  “to bury someone”

*Colloquial British English says    ‘im   and  ‘er     for him and her

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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Date: 6/24/2012 11:56:00 AM
holy molly I barely got any of the puns and if I didn't?? did you use more than one pre fix? yes you did..list the prefixes used on the bottom and let me look again? maybe don't mix both prefix & suffix, makes me want to look up the definition for pun too..they are very punny/funny..okies I got lines 3..that's it [fret] and this isn't hanging togther as a poem..did we want theirs to?
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Debbie Guzzi
Date: 6/24/2012 11:56:00 AM
you seem much sharper and more sophisticated than me..pout..I feel d u m b

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