Overheard in the Press

Some chess enthusiasts had booked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament successes.

After about an hour, the manager of the hotel came out of his office and asked them to leave.

‘But why?’ they asked, as they moved off.

‘Because’, the manager said, ‘I can’t stand chess-nuts boasting in an open foyer.’

(Spotted in Link, the journal of the National Association of Writers’ Groups (NAWG), edited by Mike Wilson, who loves this kind of wordplay and who is asking his readers for more of it. He is even offering to give a prize to the person who submits the best example.)