07 Jul 2011, 4:09 pm
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08 Jul 2011, 5:23 am
WP is a punderful place to be. 
08 Jul 2011, 7:30 am
It's never a boar-ing place to be.
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09 Jul 2011, 4:12 am
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09 Jul 2011, 6:20 am
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09 Jul 2011, 7:04 am
09 Jul 2011, 7:37 am
We're having a pun-a-thon!
09 Jul 2011, 8:02 am
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09 Jul 2011, 8:06 pm
I've got deja moo. The feeling that I've heard this bull before. [EDIT: Just realised that might sound personal. I just mean it as an example of a pun]
For anyone that likes rubbish jokes, the University of Aberdeen has an online joke generator that creates its own jokes:
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jokingcomputer/webversion/welcome.php
10 Jul 2011, 7:08 pm
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10 Jul 2011, 10:05 pm
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15 Jul 2011, 12:02 am
I would have to agree that the original poster did not post a pun. While it was a play on words, and a somewhat clever creation of a new word, it was not a pun.
Many puns only work properly when spoken out loud, as they require hearing an ambiguous word, and not thinking of the alternate meaning until a short while later.
In writing, one must write the first "trick" meaning, and then provide a punchline which invalidates what was already written earlier. This is far less fluid than verbally spoken puns.
As a child I loved puns, and by the time I was an early teen I had trained myself to hear words from as many different perspectives as possible, to extract new puns from common sentences.
I eventually started finding entire sentences that could be taken two different ways by their phonetic sounds, then writing them down in their alternate way.
For instance:
"Each it and I."
To hear the second meaning, say it out loud or say it in your head, but be aware that it contains profanity when decoded.
I have posted a bunch of puns below that I found funny, along with my explanation of what they mean, in case anybody doesn't understand any of them.
(Explanation: "making a mint" can mean "earning a lot of money" or "making mint candies".)
(Explanation: sounds like "If you've seen one, you've seen 'em all", as they are twins.)
(Explanation: the normal phrase is "delusions of grandeur" which means "someone who thinks they are more important than they are", while "illusions of grandeur" would refer to "a great magical illusion" or "a magical illusion of something great".)
(Explanation: "insubordination" can mean "not following the orders of your superiors", or "in-sub ordination" which would mean "being ordained as a Minister while on a submarine".)
(Explanation: "impossible to put down" can mean "the book is great, I can't stop reading it", or "the book keeps floating in the air via anti-gravity".)
(Explanation: "a play on words" can refer to "a pun or other wordplay", or "a stage performance on the topic of words".)
(Explanation: "looking into it" can be "investigating it" or "looking through the hole".)
(Explanation: "relish" can mean "enjoy", "mustard" sounds like "mustered" which means "gathered from within", "ketchup" sounds like "catch up". All three are also food condiments/toppings.)
(Explanation: "resisting a rest" sounds like "resisting arrest", which is what happens when someone refuses to go with the police and fights against them instead.)
(Explanation: "feet smell" could mean "feet stink" or "feet sniffing at the air like a nose", "noses run" could mean "mucous falling out of the nose" or "noses which are quickly jogging around".)
(Explanation: "pupils" could mean "students" or "the black part of the eye".)
(Explanation: "goes back 4 seconds" means "the time on the clock is reversed by 4 seconds", while "goes back for seconds" means "gets a second helping of food".)
(Explanation: a "double negative" refers to phrases such as "I ain't never stole from you" where the meaning is "I did not ever steal from you" and not the literal meaning of "I sometimes stole from you". In this pun, the phrase "no-no" is a negative repeated twice ("no" + "no"), but is not actually a "double negative" in the grammatical sense.)
And my personal all-time favourite play on words:
Fruit flies like a banana."
(Explanation: there is lots of wordplay in this sentence, but the main point is the two sentences seem to be laid out in the same way, but they are actually not. In the first sentence, the meaning is "time quickly passes, much as an arrow shot from a bow" or "time goes in one direction only", whereas the second sentence refers to "the fruit fly insect enjoys eating bananas".)
This posting is getting really long... I will end it here.
15 Jul 2011, 5:56 am
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15 Jul 2011, 2:47 pm
I would say that that's not a pun, since without interpreting it as "eat sh** and die" it makes no sense whatsoever. Like "far king Hell".
I am aware that that one wasn't a pun, I said that I enjoyed finding sentences which could be taken two different ways (phonetic vs. spelling), which is not the same as a pun.
In your example, Hell is left intact, which defeats the purpose of the obfuscation of the alternate phonetic meaning. Nobody would mistake your sentence for anything else and be surprised when they said it out loud, yet I managed to get many people to say "Each it and I" out loud before realising what they were saying, it was moderately humorous.
I enjoyed wordplay pranks like that as a kid.
Another example was writing notes in class using ciphers, so that if the teacher or anyone else intercepted them, they would just have a silly (but somewhat real sounding) message to deal with.
An example of a simple one:
"YELLOWISH ORANGE UPPER RIVER MOLES OVERTOOK THE HILLSIDE: ENCOURAGING RUDENESS, INJURING SHEEP, HAMMERING OPEN TRUCKS!"
Which has the secondary meaning of:
"Your mother is hot."
16 Jul 2011, 5:19 am
