AWFUL PUN CONTEST GIVES FOLKS THE `PUNAROUND' (MAY 2)

AWFUL PUN CONTEST GIVES FOLKS THE `PUNAROUND' (MAY 2)

AUSTIN, Tex. (Wireless Flash) -- The folks in Austin, Texas, will be getting the "punaround" this "Punday" (May 2) -- which is just what they want. Austin is home to the 22nd Annual World Championship of Awful Pun Telling which will declare one lucky person as America's preeminent punster. Pun-Off organizer Gary Hallock says contestants "pun off" two at a time and are given a topics such as "food," "automobiles," "cities" or "body parts." The puns can't be reused and hemming and hawing is strictly forbidden. Nevertheless, some punsters can last 20 minutes before "punning up empty." Hallock says judges rank punsters according to the rankness of their puns. The worst punster will receive a trophy shaped like the rear end of a horse and the satisfaction of a "job well pun."

CONTACT: Gary Hallock, ****; Austin, TX; (512) 453-4431