How can anyone make an Arlo out of this Arlo?

I guess I’m going to have to read the Doonesbury for that week. The Apple tablet fell short of even my expectations, and I wasn’t expecting it to be anything more than Apple doing a tablet.

Hope this doesn’t read as dickery directed at you, but is that example even technically a pun? It’s just a contrived set-up that results in literally repeating the original phrase (except “sea” becomes “C”) word-for-word. More like “use this phrase in a sentence employing a strained and affected manner.”

As my me-maw would say, “bless their hearts, but that’s some thin gravy.”

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Just for a sample, challenged to pun the line “I like to be beside the seaside” from the song “By the Beautiful Sea”, Frank launched into a long story as to how he invented a new kind of phonograph record. In addition to the normal two sides, it was thick and had a third side engraved on the edge like an Edison cylinder. He made a prototype, writing and performing three songs. The first side was a Song of the Open Road, and the second side was a protest song (something about “Why Does the Council Not Replace the Light Bulbs”), and the third song was a love song (”To be beside my love; to be beside my dear; to be beside myself with love; is to be beside you, my dear”).

Frank admitted he didn’t think much of the A side, the Song of the Open Road, or the B side, the protest song, but “I like ‘To Be Beside,’ the C side.”