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** Why the forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden is traditionally thought of as an apple - ''malum'' is Latin for evil and apple.
* Ancient puns also appear in Plutarch's ''Parallel Lives'', for example: "one of the sons of Crassus who was thought to resemble a certain Axius, and on this account had brought his mother's name into scandalous connection with that of Axius, once made a successful speech in the senate, and when [[Cicero]] was asked what he thought of him, he answered with the Greek words "Axios Krassou" (meaning "Worthy of Crassus").
* [[Piers Anthony]]'s recent{{when}} ''[[Xanth]]'' books are a good example of [[Hurricane of Puns|overdosing on this trope]]. The worst part is [[Don't Explain the Joke|a lot of the puns are explained in recent books]].
** Take the Hippo-crite. Instead of actually ''being'' hypocritical, he just said, "I never mean what I say."
** There's been a steady increase in puns throughout the series. The first two books had only a handful of puns. After that, Piers Anthony started making the series more comedic, and adding more puns as part of the process. Then he started accepting reader-submitted puns and it and got completely out of control. Naturally, a great many Xanth fans were thrilled by this opportunity to actually be a part of their favorite series, even if only in a small way, so the puns flooded in ever-greater numbers, to the point that Anthony frequently has several books' worth of pun backlog. In-universe, Xanth is even described as being ''made of puns''.
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