****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

[Squidpup]

[ErnBatavia]

Probably before your time.....1966 USMC. Not many are older than me anymore.....

[Lucky9teen]

[Daffynition]

No Thanksgiving is complete without this delightful Rockwell image... "Going and Coming" ...

[Daffynition]

Fantastic idea! Already his image is being propagandized in our brains...

[Lucky9teen]

Every Thanksgiving in my family we would all get together for a family dinner. We were a large family but could only afford one turkey. The children were all at a separate table, and would have to wait for the platters to reach us after passing through the adults. Even though I longed
for some white meat, all too often the turkey would run out before the platters reached us, and I would not even get dark meat. We would have to settle for hot dogs. From that experience, I learned a very valuable lesson in life. “Hope for the breast, but prepare for the wurst.”

Martha Stewarts Recipe for Chicken Stock:
50 Shares of Tyson
25 Shares of Con-Agri
100 Shares of KFC
Keep on ice until ready to be tossed.

Why did the Pilgrim kill the turkey?
Because he was in a fowl mood.

My wife gave me a haircut this morning. Now, she’s going to make Thanksgiving Day dinner with all the trimmings.

Why did the band leader save the drumsticks from thirty- eight turkeys?
Because he wanted seventy-six tom bones.

Did you hear about the waiter who dropped a Thanksgiving dinner on the floor and feared he had created an international incident?
It was the downfall of Turkey, the ruin of Greece, and the breaking up of China.

As the leftover turkey said after it was wrapped up and refrigerated,
“Foiled again.”

Did you hear about the X-rated turkey?
It’s served with very little dressing.

[girlscout]

[Lucky9teen]

[IrishPennant]

Yeah - mine time was mid 80’s....I went through the transition of C Rats to MRE’s, the 45 to the 9mm and left just as the hummer was coming in...

[Daffynition]

I'll drink to that!

[Monkey Face]

:oþ~~~~~~

[Sax]

[Lucky9teen]

Don't touch the turkey....

[CodeToad]

ROTFLMAO!!! I’d love to see it!

[mcar]

"From the Office of the THANKSGIVING DINNER-ELECT"

lol

[Lady Jag]

Pun-ish-ment back atcha -

[ErnBatavia]

C rations and M-14....never even got to hold an M-16.

[Lucky9teen]

[Sax]

[Lucky9teen]