Subject: Pun-fun with Dunn
Vengrai Parthasarathy
Here is an interesting episode, a report on which I had preserved among archives.
An elderly lady of Los Angeles had lost touch with her son who had gone to New Jersey.
“He had not written or called. Will you be kind enough to contact him and ask him to write” She was making this request to Mr.Spence,a family friend who was going to New Jersey.All that the lady could give was her son’s name which was John Dunn
Spence went to New Jersey and seeing the name “Dun and Bradstreet” on a board went in and asked the receptionist
” Is John in your hotel? ”
” Yes, go straight and turn left; you can’t miss”
So he went and saw a man coming out of a place with ‘Men’ board on the door.
Spence asked him ‘Are you Dunn’
“Yes” said the man zipping up his trousers.
“Say, why are you not writing to your mother?
(NOTE for those un-familiar with American slang–‘John’ is for Men’s room))