I have to share my favorite bilingual limerick, which is definitely OT
because it's got no pun in it but which I love because well bilingual in
Punjabi. To make up for that, one mildly sorry-assed but original bilingual
pun will be presented for consideration.

First the limerick:
There was a young Surd from Korea
Who accidentally swallowed some urea
In a month it was seen
His beard had turned green
And the surd lamented "Oye! Ai kee horia?"

And the sorry-assed but original bilingual pun
It is said that Saddam Hussein's birth name was Thayir Saddam Hussein and
that he later dropped the 'Thayir' because he hated Kurds

Narendra Shenoy

On Sep 17, 2015 7:33 AM, "Ramjee Swaminathan" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> ​On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 11:45 AM Ramjee Swaminathan <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 6:57 AM, Deepa Mohan <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Less ancient would be the time when the Thyagaraja Cretes were
> composed.
> > >
> > > Accrete, but in creteyuga too, puns were a-round. Apparently they were
> used
> > > to punish cretins.
> > >
> >
> > Are you sure? Is this from an accretedited source?
>
>
> Oh, it is a sore point. Creteness lies in going to the sources rather than
> outsourcing. Though, the source will not set you free, whether it is opun
> or not.
>
> And sir, I am of course not sure, am Ramjee, sorry.
>
> 'nuff of pun sequiters, ahem!
>
> Gotta pun, bfn.
>

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