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Certainly.


It’s interesting. So, there are two groups of people who consider this pun perfect: one group pronounces ‘писка’, ‘записка’, and the other groop pronounces ‘писька‘, ‘записька’.

«Попытка — не пытка» means something like “Trying to do something never hurts you”; “It's always better to try than to do nothing”.

Maybe,
«Как бы ему нагадить?..» — “What mischief can I make for him?..”

In my ideolect, the words ‘записка’ and ‘подписка’ are pronounced with a hard [s], while the word ‘писька’ is pronounced with a soft [sʲ] (the spelling also reflects such pronunciation). So this pun...