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Another category of incongruous expressions goes by the suggestive name
of oxymoron—an oxymoron is a contradiction in terms that provides a
gold mine of humor material, particularly for greeting cards and T-shirt co-
py.

Consider the following. • found missing • living dead • good grief • wor-
king vacation • larger half • soft rock • extinct life

A pun is created from the intentional confusion of similar-sounding words
or phrases. Puns, which overlap with double entendres and homonyms, can
be used as the basis for a joke or to reform an expression or cliché.

She was chaste, very chaste. Of course, sometimes they caught her, too. —

Norm Crosby

Humor permits us to take some liberties with the language, so our list

(which would be much longer than this) would include: Can you float a
loan You'll never be a loan The loan ranger.

Creative writing exercises allow for more opportunities to introduce humor
into the classroom and can make a mundane assignment fresh and fun. For
example, students who are asked to create humorous—yet factually accura-

te—news headlines for past scientific discoveries will not only learn to ap-
preciate a subject in a new way but also hone their critical-thinking (and

headline-writing) skills.