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He still brakes for bad puns and double-negative understatements, but he avoids the kind of under-metabolized research that sometimes alienated his early readers.

It’s the same way with his ceramics, which often feature puns or other quips, Bellina said.

Some people took the pun to mean the ad was implying a racially superior ideal of beauty.

Andy looks like a human adult but behaves like an awkward, stammering middle-schooler eager to ingratiate himself with his peers by telling toothless jokes straight out of a Scholastic pun manual.

Those ads, which centered around a pun on the phrase “good genes,” were accused of promoting eugenics.