Tag: death
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Joke About the Founder of QVC
The joke: The founder of the television shopping network QVC died. He was 88, marked down from his regular age of 152. How I wrote it: This news item caught my eye because the QVC network and death each have a lot of potentially useful associations. But “death jokes,” although they’re a familiar format, can…
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Joke About Deadly Soft Drinks
The joke: A new study says drinking sugar-sweetened beverages increases the risk of death. That’s why they’re renaming those soft drinks Coca-Coma, Mountain Doom, and Dr. Reaper. How I wrote it: That news item caught my eye because it has two handles with lots of associations, “sugar-sweetened beverages” and “death.” To write the rest of…