Joke of the week [467 = year 9, #51] "Geddit?": (38), idiom 12 (June 20, 2011 - June 26, 2011)  

Q: Why did the vampire have no friends?
A: He was a pain in the neck*.   *pun on the literal versus the idiomatic meaning of "to be a pain in the neck" 
www.phrasen.com/uebersetze,to-be-a-pain-in-the-neck,2247,e.html & www.linguee.de/deutsch-englisch/search?sourceoverride=none&source=auto&query=a+pain+in+the+neck 
cf: 21, 428, 429, 430, 431, 432, 433, 434, 435, 436, 437, 438, 439, 443, 444, 445, 446, 447, 448, 449, 450, 451, 452, 453, 454, 455, 456, 457, 458, etc., etc.

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