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Originally Posted by effCup
Joke within joke? ...
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Yes, mainly coined to bridge the unelegant gap between your "half-pregnant" and my "pregnant" ...
This was a brain twister. I laid stress on the fact that the two meanings of "pregnant" (pause) are often so convoluted that you can hardly tell which one is meant, like in:
"A pregnant pause is a pause in speech lasting 280 days or 40 weeks, whichever comes first. The pause ends with birth."
Though the focus is seemingly on rhetorics this fun definition is really from a pregnancy site.
"Pregnant pause for Punchlines" from the article is a similar example ...
My "pregnant pauses can be used for punchlines" turned it around a second time ...