A feghoot (also known as a story pun or poetic story joke) is a humorous short story or vignette ending in a pun (typically a play on a well-known phrase), where the story contains sufficient context to recognize the punning humor.[1]
^Ritchie, Graeme D. (2004). The Linguistic Analysis of Jokes. London: Routledge. pp. 120–121. ISBN 978-0-415-30983-7. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
A feghoot (also known as a story pun or poetic story joke) is a humorous short story or vignette ending in a pun (typically a play on a well-known phrase)...
vignettes featuring the time-traveling hero Ferdinand Feghoot. Known as "Feghoots", the stories involved Feghoot resolving a situation encountered while traveling...
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tomorrow." This form of story telling with a pun ending is also known as a feghoot. In Brazil the song was translated into Portuguese by the Brazilian singer...
occupants of the car. Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov used the song as a feghoot, or elaborate story pun in his short story "Death of a Foy". In the episode...
spanner. "Neutron Star", a 1966 science fiction short story by Larry Niven Feghoot – A short story designed to end with a pun "Neutron Tide". isfdb.org; Internet...
humorous meaning to a rather perplexing story. These are also known as feghoots. The following example comes from the movie Master and Commander: The Far...
Mysteries The Disappearing Man and Other Mysteries (Walker & Company, 1985) "Feghoot and the Courts" (also as "Burnside and the Courts") 1986 Gold Bred Any...
Fiction 1944 Farewell to the Master Harry Bates Analog Science Fiction 1940 Feghoot Fermi and Frost Frederik Pohl Asimov's Science Fiction 1985 Finis Frank...
as E.E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman series and Reginald Bretnor's Ferdinand Feghoot (who is "Benedict Breadfruit" in Garrett's treatment). "The Hunting Lodge"...
works including Reginald Bretnor's Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot (1962). One of his many interests was a concept car called the Polaris...
been missed by several bibliographers. There was also a Reginald Bretnor Feghoot story in each issue: these were a series of very short stories, based on...
the Billiards Club" (Lord Dunsany) "Through Time & Space with Ferdinand Feghoot!" (Grendel Briarton) "On the Rocks at Slab's" (John Gregory Betancourt)...
Vinge (writer) David Cherry (artist) Jan and Bjo Trimble (fans) Ferdinand Feghoot (imaginary) Tad Williams (toastmaster) Patrick Stewart made a special appearance...
"Baubles, Bangles and Beads" (in Chicks 'n Chained Males, 1999) "Ferdinand Feghoot and the Zero-G Nunnery" (w/ Fred Flaxman, 2002)) "Gingerbread Recipe Number...
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