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The original American version of the board game Monopoly has two Get Out of Jail Free cards, with distinctive artwork. One, a "Community Chest" card, depicts a winged version of the game's mascot, Mr. Monopoly, in his tuxedo as he flies out of an open birdcage.
Various scenarios involving two cows have been used as metaphors in economic satire. "You have two cows" is a political analogy and form of early 20th century American political satire to describe various economic systems of government.
Seven of the dice have various colors, utilities, or railroad icons on them (all from the Monopoly board game). The remaining three dice are blank on four sides, with the other two sides showing "Go," "to", or "jail". The player scores points for the round if the dice rolled create a monopoly set of colors, utilities, or railroads.
In addition to these cards, on their turn, a player may choose to draw an orange Second Chance card (derived from Monopoly's Chance cards). These cards cause a variety of effects, including moving meters up and down, taking and giving point cards, and even trading hands, meters, or places between players.
A visual pun is a pun involving an image or images (in addition to or instead of language), often based on a rebus. Visual puns in which the image is at odds with the inscription are common in cartoons such as Lost Consonants or The Far Side as well as in Dutch gable stones .
Puns are clever ways to tell jokes with words or phrases that can have multiple meanings—and we’re sharing 75 bear puns and one-liners that span from teddy bears and polar bears to koala bears ...
A Tom Swifty (or Tom Swiftie) is a phrase in which a quoted sentence is linked by a pun to the manner in which it is attributed. Tom Swifties may be considered a type of wellerism . [ 1 ] The standard syntax is for the quoted sentence to be first, followed by the pun (usually a description of the act of speaking):
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