Pun for the Ages

I'm not much of a punster, but merely a fan of this form of humor and the inexhaustible humor it offers. Nontheless, I think my kind is being maligned in this NYTimes Op-Ed, but I don't care; it furnishes too many glorious puns in the course of disparaging them:

I asked a friend of mine, an inveterate punster, whether he punned while on dates. “Sure, I pun on dates,” he replied. “On prunes and figs, too.”

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