The language drift that happens when a word takes on a different meaning, or a second meaning, gives us many opportunities for puns. Sometimes that backfires. A current post at reddit showed a humorous book title based on the modern slang definition of the word "tramp" and OP got raked over the coals for not knowing a best-selling book about a world-renowned hero.
The comic above from War and Peas has no such problems. It's just cute. (via reddit)
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I feel sorry for the person being berated for not knowing who this woman was, I'd never heard of her. And her choice of the word "tramp" which over time has changed in man on the street vocabulary.
Look what happened to the word gay, it changed the meaning of a lot of old song lyrics.
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