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Re:Every possible pun of the form ‘You put the X in Y’ by cafard on Friday November 06, 2020 @07:16PM (#25012327)
"We wonder Mr. Babbage does not invent a punning engine; it is just as possible as a calculating one."

--Walter Bagehot, "The First Edinburgh Reviewers", an essay of 1855. You can find the essay at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101068581279&vi... .

[Edit: removed stray colon.]

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Re:Every possible pun of the form ‘You put the X in Y’ by westcort on Friday November 06, 2020 @07:47PM (#25012464)
This is amazing! I guess we have gone full circle.

This also ties in to the other thing locserendipity.com does. It is a corpus of all pre-1918 books. Just use site:locserendipity.com in Google.

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