[PS I’ve looked it up, FWIW. I am most unimpressed]
brightmoonsays
Peccavi means I have sinned . The British soldier captured a place that used to be called Sind in India
brightmoonsays
You never heard I Left My Heart in San Francisco 🤯
Rob Grigjanissays
John, I’d be worried if you were impressed.
John Moralessays
brightmoon @8, I perfectly understand, now (cf. my #7), but that Rob imagines it’s somehow good only speaks as to his taste about puns.
Far as I’m concerned, unless there’s some secondary double entendre or similar, it’s just a weak form of rhyming.
As per Wikipedia:
“A pun, also rarely known as paronomasia, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.”
Far as I’m concerned, no such wordplay applies (heh) to that particularly feeble effort. It’s the weakest possible form of pun, certainly no better than the effort featured in the OP. Obs, in my estimation.
[actually, Rob, it’s sorta impressive to me how sometimes you get me; most people never manage that much]
chigau (違う)says
In my Japanese language class, the teacher would often bring props to aid with conversation.
She once brought a clock that was shaped like a chicken.
I described it as a
変な時計
hen na tokei
変 (hen) means “strange”
“hen” means chicken
—
The Japanese people did not find it amusing.
only one of the 白人 laughed.
Rob Grigjanissays
chigau @13: I like that one.
Rob Grigjanissays
Reminds me of the book Mots d’Heures: Gousses, Rames [Mother Goose Rhymes; RG]—The d’Antin Manuscript. Renderings of English nursery rhymes using nearly-homophonic French words. The French is nonsense, but I think they’re quite clever anyway. For example
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
And all the King’s horses and all the King’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again
becomes
Un petit d’un petit s’étonne aux Halles
Un petit d’un petit ah! degrés te fallent
Indolent qui ne sort cesse indolent qui ne se mène
Qu’importe un petit d’un petit tout gai de reguennes.
“Good pun” is, more I think than most things, extremely subjective.
A friend of mine posted a picture of himself. His face was out of focus in the background. In the foreground, pinched between his finger and thumb, was, in extreme closeup, a bumblebee. There was a large arrow drawn on the photo, pointing to his left eye. The caption was “Beauty is here”. I thought that was very good, but other people just roll their eyes at it. /shrug/
brightmoonsays
I bet that bumblebee was pissed. A Honeybee wouldn’t have minded they like being sorta petted
I’m a sucker for dad jokes so I laughed then rolled my eyes
I’m with Rat, this time.
Pastis should really listen to his inner rat before he posts. I love good puns. I haven’t seen one yet from him.
Rob
Would you give an example of a “good pun”?
FWIW, I nutted out what the pun was supposed to be by (mentally) pronouncing the words involved.
Since I have never heard of the referenced song, I guess that makes it a good pun.
(I worked out it was probably either a song, a movie, or a book title)
chigau @3: I’ll give three!
Clint Eastwood playing Tristan would be a case of aggravated Yseult.
Intercontinental Ballistic Cows; the Herd Shot ‘Round the World.
Peccavi.
Rob, I most certainly don’t get the Peccavi pun.
(Care to explain how it’s punny?)
[PS I’ve looked it up, FWIW. I am most unimpressed]
Peccavi means I have sinned . The British soldier captured a place that used to be called Sind in India
You never heard I Left My Heart in San Francisco 🤯
John, I’d be worried if you were impressed.
brightmoon @8, I perfectly understand, now (cf. my #7), but that Rob imagines it’s somehow good only speaks as to his taste about puns.
Far as I’m concerned, unless there’s some secondary double entendre or similar, it’s just a weak form of rhyming.
As per Wikipedia:
“A pun, also rarely known as paronomasia, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.”
Far as I’m concerned, no such wordplay applies (heh) to that particularly feeble effort. It’s the weakest possible form of pun, certainly no better than the effort featured in the OP. Obs, in my estimation.
Ah well.
—
brightmoon @8, nope. But I have heard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Chicago_Died
(A silly song by an English band)
[actually, Rob, it’s sorta impressive to me how sometimes you get me; most people never manage that much]
In my Japanese language class, the teacher would often bring props to aid with conversation.
She once brought a clock that was shaped like a chicken.
I described it as a
変な時計
hen na tokei
変 (hen) means “strange”
“hen” means chicken
—
The Japanese people did not find it amusing.
only one of the 白人 laughed.
chigau @13: I like that one.
Reminds me of the book Mots d’Heures: Gousses, Rames [Mother Goose Rhymes; RG]—The d’Antin Manuscript. Renderings of English nursery rhymes using nearly-homophonic French words. The French is nonsense, but I think they’re quite clever anyway. For example
becomes
[Rob, you bring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herg%C3%A9 to mind]
Can’t stand PBS. But thinking of wordplay, I did remember Ladle Rat Rotten Hut. Recommended.
Why does my link only take me back to this blogpost? I don’t see what’s wrong with it, but here it is again without using the a tag.
https://annex.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/ladle/
“Good pun” is, more I think than most things, extremely subjective.
A friend of mine posted a picture of himself. His face was out of focus in the background. In the foreground, pinched between his finger and thumb, was, in extreme closeup, a bumblebee. There was a large arrow drawn on the photo, pointing to his left eye. The caption was “Beauty is here”. I thought that was very good, but other people just roll their eyes at it. /shrug/
I bet that bumblebee was pissed. A Honeybee wouldn’t have minded they like being sorta petted
I’m a sucker for dad jokes so I laughed then rolled my eyes
Now that Mickey Mouse has finally been released from copyright jail, the first thing he does is… a pun.
https://boingboing.net/2024/01/01/meet-tom-the-dancing-bugs-newest-character-mickey-mouse.html