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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

[IrishPennant]

Teh=The - spell checker issue :D

[reagan_fanatic]

[Daffynition]

That's wonderful ........ but VERY scary!

Hurts my brain.

[Travis T. OJustice]

Can you PM me the link so i can judge it for myself?

[weegee]

Thanksgiving means getting together with the family...

Look! 70's Rock Musicians and Their Parent's Homes

[Daffynition]

Is that Jim Crochet? Super!

[weegee]

[weegee]

[rollo tomasi]

[Lady Jag]

[Daffynition]

I'm sorry weegee, I picked the wrong pic in post #166 ... I finally followed your link and I was mistaken. How much alike they look!

Fantastic photos at the source!

[sunny48]

Most people can touch all their teeth with their tongue.
Perhaps the skin that attaches your tongue to your mouth, (frenulum, I think), has grown out to far to the tip of your tongue and you can't.

My daughters was like that and we had it snipped.

[weegee]

Gene had his frenulum cut.

[trisham]

Seriously?

[Lady Jag]

That reminds me of a Thanksgiving picture -

[Daffynition]

Happy Thanksbacon!

Before:

After:

[Lady Jag]

[weegee]

Happy Baconday.

I am outta here (although I will reappear at some point).

[Lady Jag]

[Lady Jag]

That looks like it should be all mine.