A pun ceases to be clever if the Times of India uses it.
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What would you then say of puns that the TOI rejects for being too, um, punny?
The TOI hasn’t met a pun it can resist.
Are we allowed to use “TOI” in our own puns. Or by transitive closure, will we be punned for life?
I object- the TOI is a FMCG that publishes NEWS in its original sense of North East West South. It has everything for everyone at some point on its pages. Therefore, a pun can be clever even if the TOI uses it. Mind over matter:)
True, I’m glad someone agrees with somethign thatr’s been a pet peeve for ages.
This is the newspaper that said something like “Gates expectations” when Bill Gates came to India, which is nheither here nor there nor anywhere else.
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