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Well, I thought it was funny. 
grandtanteJE65
Who was it that said, "The pun is the lowest form of humour"?
Three hundred years ago, Henry Erskine countered the statement that “a pun is the lowest form of wit” by adding that “it is therefore the foundation of all wit,” and Oscar Levant opined that it is the “lowest form of humour – when you didn’t think of it first.”
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