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What do you call these jokes?

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About the books and their authors like 10 Miles to the outhouse by Willie Makit and illustrated by Betty Wont?

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  1. Exactly!


  2. How about, "The yellow stream by I P Daily"?

  3. Is there a term for them? I would call them literary puns.

    An anachronism is

    1: an error in chronology; especially : a chronological misplacing of persons, events, objects, or customs in regard to each other

    2: a person or a thing that is chronologically out of place; especially : one from a former age that is incongruous in the present

    3: the state or condition of being chronologically out of place.

    By the way, have you read the dark passage by Hugo First?

    Sorry, couldn't resisit it.

  4. Confusing

  5. very short

  6. Anachronisms.

  7. Tom Swifties.

    They're also referred to as Wellerisms.

    "I'm never late", Tom said promptly.

    "I act on the spur of the moment", Tom said spontaneously

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