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> Throughout all of this, Horse News was the only stable work I had.

Only a good writer, that truly enjoys their craft, is able to masterfully insert a witty dry pun like that into their work. Bravo!

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It’s a good pun but let’s not pretend that it takes a professional writer. I mean, have you met dads?

we make fishy puns like that just for the halibut.

I am offended you would say this. As a Dad, I put a monumental amount of effort into coming up with puns to make my family wince.

I remember wondering why my dad did it so much, given he never ever got a positive reaction. But now that I’m a dad, I get it. It’s just a sort of instinct. In fact, I think I’m seeking the puns that go splat rather than landing well.

For years, my dad and I had pun fights. Sadly, my mom was caught in the middle. Literally. Her chair was between my dad’s chair on one end of the living room, and mine on the other end.

That stopped after a while. I guess it was all the strokes and over work that got him.

I have half jokingly thought that could there even be some evolutionary dimension of improving the language skills of your kids when doing it!

Or the entirety of reddit for that matter. Most threads are inane word puns and/or turtles the whole way down.

> I root for Horse Laws and grow sad when a state bucks them.

Another cute one!

Calling the horse/stable job a witty pun today is quite a stretch.

Maybe I'm just old and tired, but this pun is exactly like what you'd find in a movie review, which is literally the worst type of literature for that exact reason, and should be banned worldwide.

Don't be so hard on movie reviewers. They're mostly just alcoholics on pensions who found a reasonably good retirement gig. Also, they have more random esoteric knowledge about movie shit than anyone in our industry has about anything.

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