Question
Puns friends or foes?
Ok so I like to make puns and other sort “groaners” if you will. I appriciate when others make puns cause of the wit involved. What do you all think?
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As long as every other sentence doesn’t contain one I enjoy them. Too many gives me a headache.
I imagine this thread will be full of puns. I will abstain from making one.
What do I think? I think that last weekend I went to a seafood disco
...and pulled a mussel.
I loveeeeeee puns. Go on here and watch the episode of flapjack called Pun Times. Great Ep.
I am often guilty of making puns.
Stand-up comedian KIP ADDOTA recorded WET DREAM with all kinds of puns in it.
Play it and listen to it, more than once.
September 5, 2008, 1:06 AM EDT
@Sueanne Tremendous: Kip is also mentioned here:
http://www.fluther.com/disc/21982/of-all-the-tv-game-shows-you-have-ever-seen-which/
September 5, 2008, 9:15 AM EDT
I don’t like puns at all.
I love them!
I won’t enter laundromats, because I have been told that I could DYE in one!
My buddy owned a laundromat, but due to poor financial decisions, it FOLDED.
His Kentucky father had LINT him the money to get it started. (According to him…)
And, can you imagine having a laundromat, that is located in a DRY county?
My buddy’s favorite TV show (in the 1950s) was “RINSE TIN TIN.”
Did you hear about the fight at a local Laundromat? A washing machine beat the crap out of a diaper.
Forgive me, but I must now leave. Another buddy is calling me from prison. He is using a CELL phone…
September 5, 2008, 10:01 AM EDT
Here’s one:
I wanted to be a fisherman for the halibut, but I floundered. I couldn’t live off my net income.
Puns do not equal wit. And they both are better in small doses and should be original and not derivative. And if one has written a good pun, he doesn’t need to broadcast it by saying “no pun intended.”
AC: I’m sending thorny branch to you, UPS, for immediate self-flaggelation. Instructions included. GAG
On June 8, 1972, Alfred Hitchcok was interviewed on the Dick Cavett Show and commented about puns, after making one. Here’s the clip of that segment.
September 6, 2008, 11:29 AM EDT
Definitely, even thought USPS has a contract with them. I actually prefer UPS to FedEx as UPS is union and pays their employees well.
I once wrote some ad copy for FED-EX, about how they didn’t want to mention their competitor by name, but had to note that FED-EX was an UPStanding company, and wasn’t like some UPStart companies that try to compete, but can’t, and that it UPSets FED-EX to be an UPScale company, having to compete with one of lesser quality. And, it must be noted, that some FED-EX locations in flood-prone areas are located UPStairs from the ground floor, to prevent packages from getting wet, and that was the whole UPShot to this message, without mentioning their competitor by name, and giving them any free publicity.
You will find, if you visit ANY FED-EX facility, that no manager ever engages in any company coverUPS, provides plenty of ketchUPS in the employee cafeterias, encourages their staff to have regular medical checkUPS, and always, without any exceptions, to act as grownUPS, unlike their competitors, whose name they will not mention, ever.
September 6, 2008, 2:19 PM EDT
Well, all I can tell you is that FedEx isn’t UPStanding when it comes to wages, benefits or job security.
yes, nina, that’s a good question. Why do people groan at puns? What makes them offensive or painful to hear?
When a jet aircraft made a particularly rough landing at the Kansas City, Missouri airport, several years ago, a FA told the passengers, over the PA system, that, “We apologize for that very rough landing, but want to let you know that it was the condition of the runway that caused it. It was not the aircraft’s fault and it was certainly not the pilot’s fault; it was the ASPHALT!”
AH i totally forgot to post this here. One of my favorite webcomics oddfish has its jokes based mostly around puns. Love it.
1. The roundest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
3. She was only a whisky maker, but he loved her still.
4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.
5. The butcher backed into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.
6. No matter how much you push the envelope, it’ll still be stationery.
7. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
8. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
9. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
11. A hole has be en found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
12. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
13. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other, ‘You stay here, I’ll go on a-head.’
14. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
15. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: “Keep off the Grass.”
16. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, “No change yet.”
17. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
19. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium, at large.
20. The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
21. A backward poet writes in-verse.
22. In a democracy, it’s your vote that counts. In feudalism, it’s your count that votes.
23. When the cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.
24. Don’t join dangerous cults, practice safe sects!
My post of the 24 puns (above) did not have a link, unfortunately.
It arrived in my e-mail, exactly as shown (above) and was publicly posted via “cutting and pasting,” at/on September 15, 2008, 4:06 AM EDT according to the time/date stamp, appearing directly beneath it (as you can now see).
I dunno jack I felt it was a nice light airy break from the heavy thick multi paragraph political writing we have been seeing.
When I was in Las Vegas 2 years ago, I asked a guy where LAMB BLVD was, and he said, “It is BAAAAAAAAAAAACK there!”
a guy runs up to knock on the door of a farm house. a small boy answers. the guy says, ‘son, let me use your phone. there’s a man out in the field molesting sheep. the boy says: ‘oh, that’s just DAAAAAAD!
LOL! Here’s your favorite song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRHMiz06VRo
