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Originally Posted by GrannyGrump
Well, Harry, I would have cheerfully have edited the wording, IF I could have thought of suitable substitutes in the second example I posted (see post # 15). But that one had me stonkered. My thesaurus failed me.
It's not too late, still. Would you have any suggestion for the three words highlighted in post # 15?
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I'm afraid I don't have any suggestions. Rewriting a pun is almost impossible. If you changed the words, you'd completely lose the existing sense of the passage, which is a pun on the similarity between "pecker" as in "spirit" and "peck" as in what a bird does with its beak.