Punning For Your Life

About the Book

Punning for your Life: An Infectious Collection of Pun-demonium comprises over 100 short short stories all of which conclude in an outrageous pun, an outrageous play on words. Verbal gymnastics, twists, and turns are at play here as the author spans time and distance, history and geography, to present wonderfully clever linguistic gyrations certain to amuse and amaze. Ranging from China to the Bermuda Triangle to Europe even to outer space, Punning for your Life covers the globe. Historical figures from Marco Polo to the Rolling Stones appear here. Punning for your Life: An Infectious Collection of Pun-demonium is certain to entertain, enthrall, and amaze all who delve into its “punderful” wonders and experience the incredible sounds of the English language.

About the Author

Ted Brett was born in New York and now lives in Gilroy, California. His first book of puns, Don't Book a Judge by his Cover: A Collection of the World’s Most Outrageous Puns, enjoyed great success when it was published in 1990. Brett teachers English at Evergreen Valley College in San Jose, California, and Gavilan College in Gilroy, California. Favorite activities include traveling and photography. Favorite interests include European painting and reading modern literature and biography. One particular passion is skepticism and debunking cultural myths and mind-strangling dogmatism. His greatest passion is his children, Page and Jeremy, and a new member of the family, his grandson, Brett. That he loves Jean Castillo is unquesioned, and he revels in her love for him.