"I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."
"You mean you can't take LESS," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take MORE than nothing."
-From Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland, chapter 7
The effect of the above play on 'more' is a pun, but it is a pun precisely because the word has two different senses (i.e. something like 'quantity' and 'addition').
Have you used a word with two different senses to make a pun recently?
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