Pun Salad

… but the wrong direction:

• My own Congressional race (NH1) gets the national spotlight, as the Onion compares and contrasts candidates Carol Shea-Porter and Frank Guinta:

  Campaign promise:

  • Shea-Porter: Will double the maple syrup subsidy and impose a tariff on foreign foliage
  • Guinta: Vows to eliminate wasteful government bodies like the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, and the Coast Guard

  Don't get your hopes up, libertarians. It's a joke.

• In the allegedly more serious Campaign Spot, Jim Geraghty highlights today's UNH Survey Center polling from NH Congressional District 2, which puts Democrat Ann McLane Kuster up by three percent over the former dreadful Republican Charlie Bass. Commenter "Hoover" alleges that the poll oversampled Democrats, and Bass is copacetic.

  On our side of the state, the poll has Republican Frank Guinta up by 7% over current Congressperson/Toothache Carol Shea-Porter.

  So: we'll see. Whenever quoting the Survey Center's polling, I feel it's necessary to point out that they had Barack Obama beating Hillary Clinton by 9% in their final poll released the day before 2008's New Hampshire Presidential Primary. Hillary wound up winning by 2.6%.

• Pun Salad doffs its cap to The Economist's blogger who notes the magazine's headlines on stories dealing with Chinese currency:

  A yuan-sided argument
  Yuan small step
  Yuan up, yuan down
  Tell me what you yuan, what you really, really yuan

  More moan-inducing examples at the link. Because if you're punning on the Chinese monetary unit, it's difficult to stop at yuan.

• George F. Will deserves thanks for (in his pre-election column) noting the campaign slogan of Mark Grannis, the Libertarian candidate for Congress in Maryland district 8: "Less we can".

• Making the rounds is this quote from Bjarne Stroustrup (perpetrator of C++):

  I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.