****The Official Wednesday before Thanksgiving since most don't work on Friday Silliness Thread****

Puns & Other Word Play ^

[Lucky9teen]

Puns & Other Word Play

Many see puns as cheap humor, one-liners, or groaners, despite their prevalence in our culture. They are most often seen in the names of businesses, or advertising. Others, like the writer Jonathan Swift, see them as a challenging art form, where one shapes words like a cobbler bends leather. 'Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words,' said Swift, 'which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.

However the dictionary describes a pun as:

pun
n.
A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.

Egg Plant
The Art of Humorous Puns

Humorous Puns
Many puns hardly ever illicit more than groans from those subjected to their obvious humor. There are many theories as to why this is. One such theory put forth by Freud states those who do not laugh at puns have punus envitas.

What is it that makes a good pun? Here are a few pointers.

Quick set-up (brevity is important)
No proper names (listener might not recognize the name)
Familiar references
A pointed revelation (you should see the spark in the listeners' eyes as they 'get it')
Maximum wordplay throughout

Tap Dancers

[envisio]

I read ten of those puns to see if one would make me laugh.

No pun in ten did.

[weegee]

[lilylangtree]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!

And I do not see where he stops and changes his underwear (several times...)

You must- see this one!!!

http://video.kenblockracing.com/flash/small_player/preloader.swf?vendor_id=204&media_id=9183&bgcolor=FFFFFF&autoplay=0

[OB1kNOb]

[weegee]

[weegee]

[ErnBatavia]

Except for the color, that looks like our local WalMart....no matter how jammed the place is there are never, ever more than 3 checkout lines that are open.

[april15Bendovr]

[mcar]

[ErnBatavia]

In Boot Camp, we learned that a more serious Irish Pennant is to be addressed as a Russian Rope..

[weegee]

It's fun to pretend you're important.

[ErnBatavia]

Of course, after it got dark that first Thanksgiving, they had to watch the TV by candlelight....

[IrishPennant]

Good one...must have been before or after my time!!

[Daffynition]

And then things got ugly when the batteries gave out ...

[Rightly Biased]

The plane in the sky adds a nice touch

[Lucky9teen]

I'm waiting for the Official January 20th Inauguration Silliness Thread.

Oh, it's coming.....it's coming....

We're gonna need a LOT of silliness on THAT day.

[reagan_fanatic]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

[vigilante2]

                                   This will piss-em off!
 

You know what would really P**S OFF the Democrats?

President Bush should resign now.

Then Dick Cheney becomes President (that would really P**S OFF the libs)!!!

Then he appoints Condoleeza Rice as VP.

Then Cheney resigns two weeks later and Condoleeza Rice, A Republican,

becomes the first BLACK - WOMAN President!!

Beat em at their own game!

[Lucky9teen]

[mcar]

I like the laptop
:)