“The average ghost is mean spirited” was posted on the website PunoftheDay.com on October 29, 2010. “There’s nothing more mean spirited than the average ghost” was posted on Reddit—Oneliners on March 8, 2023. The pun is on the word “mean,” which can be defined as both “angry” and “average.”
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Terry Johnson
@Natural2Live
The average ghost is mean spirited.[Click to Vote!] - lol
3:15 AM · Oct 29, 2010
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Crack Me Up
@haha_2funny
Pun of the Day: October 29, 2010 - The average ghost is…: The average ghost is mean spirited.[Cli… http://bit.ly/d6RUAo punoftheday.com
3:15 AM · Oct 29, 2010
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John Pointon
@jpointon
Twitterpun : The average ghost is mean spirited. #pun #humour
3:18 AM · Jul 15, 2012
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Aoede/Lisa Sniderman
@aoedemuse
#LEXIPHILE-o-d-Day: The average ghost is mean spirited… #groan
10:15 PM · Feb 11, 2013
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Adam Thorsson
@AdamThorsson
‘Mean spirited’: being haunted by an average ghost.
5:31 AM · Dec 3, 2013
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ristolable
@ristolable
Your average ghost is mean-spirited. This is a play on words. Thank you for tuning in
1:45 PM · Feb 14, 2015
Reddit—Oneliners
Posted by u/Gingi0 March 8, 2023
There’s nothing more mean spirited than the average ghost.
Twitter
oneliners and jokes
@funnyoneliners
There’s nothing more mean spirited than the average ghost.
12:15 PM · Mar 8, 2023
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
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