Harley and I thank you for the chuckles and the groans. I think she's satisfied for now.

Mary, thank you for adding "feghoot" to my working vocabulary. I'd never heard the term before, but it does fit.

Issac Asimov (quoted in the website referenced above) also wrote Shah Guido G., which is an anagram of "Shaggy Dog," a story that takes a good while to set up a groaner of a pun.

I've no idea if my team will drop in and spur me to more flights of fancy. But I plan to keep reading here. Y'all rock!


Last edited by Terry Leatherwood; 06/19/22 06:45 PM. Reason: Fix "feghoot" link

Life isn't a support system for writing. It's the other way around.

- Stephen King, from On Writing