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Two-Ply Puns

September 28, 2009

See if you can find the many puns embedded in the following Washington Post headline, on environmentalists’ challenge to toilet paper:

“Environmentalists Seek to Wipe Out Plush Toilet Paper: Soft Toilet Paper’s Hard on the Earth, But Will We Sit for the Alternative?”

Yowza. Talk about getting…cheeky.

Megan Garber is an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. She was formerly a CJR staff writer.