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A Bridge Too Far Gone
Think of familiar phrases or titles and bridge them together in unexpected ways using Punnification, Apposition, Tropes, Nonsensical Linguistics, and other devices. Examples:
Coke Zero: Dark and Dirty Zero Dark Thirty Something Drive, He Said, She Said Or change one word inside or at the end of a title to give it a "new" (possibly funnier) meaning. Clever appropriations of titles already in use include, In the Realm of the Senseless. Rage Against the Coffee Machine is a well known rant. Love in the Time of Diarrhea is a twist on Love in the Time of Cholera. Certainly, I can relate to that. Lol. I leave it to followers of William Safire, to determine the origin/history of phrases and their modifications. |
02-10-2013, 03:19 AM | #2 |
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My Sweet Lord of the Rings
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Here Comes the Brideshead Revisited
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The old man and the stork.
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02-11-2013, 10:10 AM | #7 |
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Lord of the Rungs.
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02-11-2013, 11:43 AM | #9 |
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02-11-2013, 12:57 PM | #13 |
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I heard this one somewhere already:
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More Misérables
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02-11-2013, 01:22 PM | #15 |
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