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“This delectable and provocative work is the best I have read, a medley of the clerkly and the earthy. Their views on pictorial puns really open our eyes” (Walter Redfern, in his book Puns). “On the one hand a crisp analysis of verbal and visual ambiguities, on the other an extremely entertaining anthology of frightful jokes” (George Melly, New Society) “Ultimately, as Hammond and Hughes observe, ‘the puns that free language free us’. It’s a demonstration of the remarkable human capacity for creative, abstract association. This study is subtle, quirky, and subversive” (John Pollack in his book The Pun Also Rises).