Okay, Constance started this over at FB.
“Dick and I are playing this game, since we like puns, where you think of an occupation, and then add a word with a negative prefix that pertains. So, the Duke was disgraced. The seismologist defaulted. Etc.” Then she added, “The tanner who was dis-suaded. The hair stylist who was dis-tressed. The judge who was ex-honor-ated.
So, the gambler was deluxe doesn’t quite do it. The appliance salesman was deranged; that’s better. The English professor was denounced and (oh who cares about rules when there are puns to be had) de-vowel-you’d–my family would approve.
It seems to be easier to come up with the punchline and take it back-word from there. Anyone else want to try? So far I’ve come up with:
The chef was served with a deflammation suit.
The campers were given detention.
The math homework (blame the dog) was dissolved and the professor was outnumbered.
(This one is NOT political, it’s all wordplay.) The det o’ nation was way overblown.
The writer was in-dis-pens-able.
They tried to talk about their ancestors, but it just de-gen-irate’d from there. Which leads to,
Oedipus said it’s true, you can’t go home again; it’s dilapidated now.
And on a totally different note, they’re not my pictures and I respect copyright so I’ll just link to them, but my cousin Kathryn’s daughter waited till the moment of a family photoshoot to give her mom the big news. Happy day!