Rush Limbaugh
after Viagra
Rightist talk show host Rush Limbaugh will not be charged with possessing Viagra without a prescription. Prosecutors in West Palm Beach, Fla., said they had been “up and down” about filing charges that could have negated a plea deal made on charges Limbaugh had earlier been “doctor-shopping” to obtain the powerful opioid analgesic Oxycontin.
A spokesman for the motormouth host said Limbaugh felt prosecutors made the “erect decision.”
Legal analysts had predicted that if Limbaugh had been charged he would have faced a “stiff sentence” for his previous run-in with the law.
British pun expert B. Jeepers Pidworth said the Limbaugh affair had produced a renewed interest in puns, the figures of speech also known as paronomasia.
“It is rather hard,” said Pidworth, “for puns to find their way into stories of national and international interest these days. The Limbaugh Viagra arrest is a recent pinnacle in the modern practice of punning. The use of puns have certainly elevated during the recent hoopla surrounding this Limbaugh fellow.”