Both of my sons are wordsmiths and the elder one has a particular facility for delivering groan-inducing puns with such lightening speed that even as you roll your eyes, you can’t help but be a little impressed—or terrified—by how dexterously his brain can associate many things with many other things. A few years ago, during a chat about Traditional Chinese Medicine, I explained that practitioners will advise their patients to nourish and build up the yin energies through autumn and winter and the yang energies in the springtime and summer.
I had barely finished my sentence when he said, “Well, obviously! What’s yanger than springtime?”
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