Sure – we are celebrating Darwin this month and through the year. But one negative of evolution in general is that it seems particularly ripe for puns, and bad ones at that. So I am starting a new award here – the Bad Evolution Puns Award. And the first winner is the Boston Globe for their new article “Cod in the act of evolution” by Murray Carpenter.
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that is excellent Maxine …
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The problem is that the best puns are by definition bad — it’s the groaners that really work best, or as Edgar Allan Poe supposedly said, “The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.”On a somewhat related note, I just happen to be reading (okay, listening to) Mark Kurlansky’s <>Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World<> during my commute. Its not quite John McPhee, but great background to bring to a read of the paper by Darimont, et al. that led to Carpenter’s pun.
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That cod piece is interesting….
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ok bora – you win
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One hundred and fifty years after the publication of <>Origin<>, can we really say that Dar-wins?
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