by Candid » Sun Jan 22, 2012 9:01 pm
Not a particularly clever one, but very effective:
Friend and I went to hear a speaker who told us two brothers had not spoken for years, and their respective families were estranged, because one of them had once called the other a pumpkinhead.
The packed room broke up laughing. That talk was more than 20 years ago, and my friend and I have used "pumpkinhead" as a term of endearment for each other ever since.