But don't let the bad pun keep you away.
All things considered, one can forgive Mr. Troubat the bad pun: malin can have a range of meanings -- mischievous, sly, wicked, cunning, cute, shrewd.
(Hey, who said I couldn't join the bad pun train?).
The new Broadway musical "Urinetown," at Henry Miller's Theatre, has already been produced twice in New York — first at the New York International Fringe Festival, in 1999, then at the American Theatre of Actors, earlier this year — and all the good puns, and all the bad puns, that beg to be made about its name have already been made by other members of the press, so don't look to me for new ones.
The drawback is that the pills represent (bad pun alert!) a fix for only one part of a very complex problem.
(A very bad pun that I wheel out any opportunity I get).
What's holding it up is your generals, who are really pathological in the Pentagon and one of them said, 'If you get rid of our nuclear weapons, man, that's threatening the family jewels,' and that says it all, in a nutshell, so to speak, and that's a bad pun.
OK, that's a bad pun right there.
But typically — he had an unpretentious manner and could not resist a good joke or, for that matter, a bad pun — he tried to keep even a matter this weighty from becoming too ponderous.
+ "THE GOAT, OR WHO IS SYLVIA?" Edward Albee's new play is indeed about a man who falls in love with a goat, a problem that evokes many bad puns and invites a laugh-track response from the audience.
