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In defense of puns.

Without the use of puns…okay, maybe one pun…okay, maybe two…or three…

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Some guy once besmirched the play on words by calling it the lowest form of wit.

Which speaks to a time-honored tradition in the literary community of running smear campaigns against things that whoever runs the campaign can’t do very well.

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Oliver “Shiny” Blakemore

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