0Everyone loves wordplay This collection of more than eight hundred quips and pun-filled anecdotes will have your friends in stitches Classics and new inventions fill these pages with humor and wit. Divided into chapters according to theme--animals, celebrities, careers, food, and so on--there's a pun for every occasion Author Gary Blake dares you not to snicker at his contrivances:

• Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
• Davy Crockett had three ears. A left ear, a right ear, and a wild frontier.
• A backwards poet writes inverse.
• Santa's helpers are subordinate Clauses.
• Like tavern owners, ballet dancers make most of their money at the barre.
• Horses in the movies only have bit parts.
• Why does the Pope travel so much? Because he's a roamin' Catholic.
• Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
• A Freudian slip is when you say one thing and mean your mother.
• Eve was the first person to eat herself out of house and home.
• I used to work in a blanket factory, but the company folded.
• The calendar thief only got twelve months.
• A great gift or coffee table book, there's no time like the present to order a copy of Does the Name Pavlov Ring a Bell? for the word-twisting, pun-loving humorist in your life.