Groaner

[vvvexation]

(crossposted to puns and my personal journal)

I had this thought quite some time ago:

If I used to own a bar...

and then I shut it down and decided to retire...

but later changed my mind and reopened it...

would that make me a re-publican?


But what if I poured out the drinks with a liberal hand?

Comments

[pi216.livejournal.com]

Or if the building was partially torn down around someone in the bathroom, they'd be a pee-rubblican.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Or if I couldn't pay off the mortgage, they'd send a repo-blican.

[pi216.livejournal.com]

Maintain a swanky enough place and run tastings and such, and you could be a brie-publican.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

With a little landscaping, I could be a tree-publican.

[pi216.livejournal.com]

... Move to Vail and become a ski-publican?

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Or to Michigan and become an Erie-publican.

[pi216.livejournal.com]

Given the number of long-ee sound words and fragments in the English language, this could go on interminably with little reflection on our talents for anything other than thinking of a nonsense syllable and setting up some kind of situation to explain it.

That being said, I'm closing on a 'Simplify, simplify' note and saying you'd already be a she-publican ;) .

[emmett-the-sane.livejournal.com]

Are you suggesting that we should crumple up and toss this whole silly conversation into a wee public can?

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Well, we prob'ly can if we want to.