I will kill with my bare hands the next person in this room who says "that's what SHE said"

[mmcirvin]

In an otherwise not-so-interesting article about political puns, here's a hilarious quote from a letter from Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams about the 1787 Constitutional Convention:

“The most remarkeable [sic] effect of this convention as yet is the number of puns and bon mots it has generated,” Jefferson wrote. “I think were they all collected it would make a more voluminous work than the Encyclopedie. This occasion, more than any thing I have seen, convinces me that this nation is incapable of any serious effort but under the word of command. The people at large view every object only as it may furnish puns and bon mots; and I pronounce that a good punster would disarm the whole nation were they ever so seriously disposed to revolt.”

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[sunburn.livejournal.com]

The right of the people to keep and bear puns shall not be infringed!