Overheard


in the Lab
A: Exactly. I think Dan Brown is really the Tom Green of writing.
B: What? How?
A: Both have three letters in their first name, five letters in their last. ALSO, and this is crucial: both last names are colors.
B: Wow. Congratulations. You've created a purely lexical metaphor. Amazing. Humorists and wits have always wondered what was beneath puns on the ladder, and you've found it.
A: There's semantics there! They're both colors! UNLESS YOU DON'T THINK THAT IS-A AND SET RELATIONSHIPS FORM THE BASIS OF SEMANTICS???? HMMMM?