Don Hauptman

Essential for all who wish to interject puns into their conversations or merely relish these painful (sometimes) concoctions in the quiet of their own reading nooks. From "Stowing thrones" to "Nosy Cooks and Lirty Dies" there are puns and punish explanations of how our language has acquired these sometimes strange circumlocutions of words that sometimes may even yield a grin or two.

Delightful compendium of everything you wanted to know about acronyms. From history and etymology to the secrets of how to create or identify them, the contents of this clever volume will inform you. Complete with two useful appendices. Essential for all who desire to become intrepid linguists.

Dissecting them takes some of the fun out of it, and the book was limited to one type of pun (transposition puns), but it was interesting & entertaining.