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Puns tagged ‘academia’:

04/28/13

An academic who studied mouthwash shortages had his conclusions dismissed as ‘out of Scope‘.

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04/17/13

DON’T STOP BEAVERING

Dear Pun Gents,
we are planning a 1st Annual Gala fundraiser/dinner/auction for our Bemidji State University, Athletic Scholarships. We are located in Northern MN. Our mascot is ‘The Beavers’ and our colors are Green & White. This is going to be formal event, and we are looking for a fun yet classy name. Help! ~Jean, Minnesota

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Money? Leave it to Beavers!
  2. Don’t Stop Beavering
  3. Beaver Fever
  4. Green + White = Gold
  5. Unfreeze our Funds
  6. Bemidjial Classes
  7. Raising Big Buckies [mascot name]: it will Be-A-Ver-y good time
  8. Big Bucky Gala: Raising $ for Dam Good Cause
  9. No BS: it’s Bemidjial State
  10. Look Out: Green Aid!
  11. Gala – Advancing with the Stars
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04/02/13

John Wayne Bobbitt was a university research chair with a sizeable endowment, until his fun-dong was suddenly cut off.

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05/19/12

Do social media professors wear Tweet jackets?

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04/08/11

For political scientists, the upcoming Canadian election is a process of Harpeer Review.

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02/24/11

OPUN HOUSE

Dear Pun Gents, I’m doing a web guide for students attending a university open day, and need a pun. Help. ~Wallace, Sunderland

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Welcome, academian nuts
  2. It’s not tour early to sign up
  3. We got Guides and Dolls.
  4. A day of dancing and parentsing
  5. Check our smoking hot class
  6. You can’t spell education without ‘ducat’ – get your tickets here.
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02/22/11

Any academic who leaves the country is a subject matter export.

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02/17/11

JOURNAL OF APPLED SCIENCE

Dear Pun Gents, I am writing a scientific paper, and the titles of such papers are often puns. The topic of the paper is looking at fruit and seeing whether the phylogenetic trees you can construct based on morphological features match the known trees for these fruit. ~Alex, London, UK

AS THE PUN GENTS SEE IT:

  1. Fruit 66: A phylogenetic roadmap
  2. There a Pears to be a Connection…
  3. Appled Science
  4. Phylogenetic Trees Arboring?
  5. Peach de Resistance
  6. A Theory with many Applecations
  7. A Branch of Theory that Bears Fruit
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09/27/10

I was skinny in high school, so when I got to university I joined a fatternity: eta omega pi

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12/07/09

An academic who studies satanism, aka a philucifer.

Blast from the past: Greek fraternity puns (and some cute little weird kids)!

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