# Dear Mr. Rolleyes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mr-rolleyes/640975>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 14, 2012, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mr-rolleyes/640975 "2012-11-14T13:13:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 3

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mr-rolleyes/640975/41 "2012-11-15T18:40:05Z")

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> [@vita beata](#):
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> eye rollage has caused stress to furryman. Furryman may need to take a vacation; pack his sweater, perhaps fly to some tropical eye lens.

OHHH YEAH!i

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mr-rolleyes/640975/42 "2012-11-15T18:48:35Z")

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> [@Vita\_Beata](#):
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> Eye rollage has caused stress to Furryman. Furryman may need to take a vacation; pack his sweater, perhaps fly to some tropical eye lens.

I believe we should study the thought process in constructing puns.  
Would you be interested in donating your brain to science?  
Soon?  
🙂

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mr-rolleyes/640975/43 "2012-11-15T18:54:43Z")

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> [@Vita\_Beata](#):
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> I laughed out loud over this as I went about my errands. Thanks, Furryman, for having a good outlook on this thread, for not trying to socket to us or give us a lashing.

Stop brow beating him.

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**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mr-rolleyes/640975/44 "2012-11-15T19:54:06Z")

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These puns get cornea and cornea.

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mr-rolleyes/640975/45 "2012-11-15T19:55:59Z")

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> [@Malacandra](#):
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> These puns get cornea and cornea.

I thought we were on a roll.

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**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mr-rolleyes/640975/46 "2012-11-15T20:01:21Z")

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Just in time for Thanksgiving, a cornea-copia of puns!

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**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mr-rolleyes/640975/47 "2012-11-15T21:13:10Z")

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> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> We must kill all the punners now, while there is still time.

Don’t shoot until you see the roll of their eyes…

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mr-rolleyes/640975/48 "2012-11-15T21:17:39Z")

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> [@Yeticus\_Rex](#):
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> Don’t shoot until you see the roll of their eyes…

Et tu, Brute?

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**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mr-rolleyes/640975/49 "2012-11-15T21:37:43Z")

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Come on guys, let’s focus…

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**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mr-rolleyes/640975/50 "2012-11-15T23:30:12Z")

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As long as it’s all in good humour.

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mr-rolleyes/640975/51 "2012-11-15T23:39:26Z")

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> [@gamerunknown](#):
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> As long as it’s all in good humour.

Is that a pun?!?!?!

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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mr-rolleyes/640975/52 "2012-11-15T23:54:53Z")

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> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> Is that a pun?!?!?!

No, that’s just a vitreous rumour.

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mr-rolleyes/640975/53 "2012-11-16T00:39:38Z")

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> [@Colophon](#):
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> No, that’s just a vitreous rumour.

I had to look that up.  
I’m going to track you down, feed your entrails to my dog and make musical instruments from your bones upon which I shall play pleasant music to entertain my women.

🙂

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**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mr-rolleyes/640975/54 "2012-11-16T04:03:53Z")

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> [@gamerunknown](#):
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> As long as it’s all in good humour.

Vitreous, or Aqueous, you need to specify _which_ humour.

ETA: Forgot to include the pun. Eye, there’s the rub!

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**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mr-rolleyes/640975/55 "2012-11-16T05:44:07Z")

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> [@gamerunknown](#):
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> As long as it’s all in good humour.

One of the reasons I can read a newspaper from 10 meters is that back in the 70s I worked summers as The Good Humour Man.

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**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mr-rolleyes/640975/56 "2012-11-16T06:37:08Z")

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It’s a never-ending cataract of puns!

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**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mr-rolleyes/640975/57 "2012-11-16T07:29:34Z")

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> [@Yeticus\_Rex](#):
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> With six, you get eyeroll…😛

With my ex, the eyeroll came with _sex_ :rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mr-rolleyes/640975/58 "2012-11-16T14:28:08Z")

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> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> I believe we should study the thought process in constructing puns.  
> Would you be interested in donating your brain to science?  
> Soon?  
> 🙂

I believe I can best serve mankind by just posting here, focalizing on the positive, and remaining optic-mistic.

😃

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mr-rolleyes/640975/59 "2012-11-16T14:34:44Z")

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> [@Vita\_Beata](#):
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> I believe I can best serve mankind by just posting here, focalizing on the positive, and remaining optic-mistic.
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> 😃

Where’s my blood pressure medicine?

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mr-rolleyes/640975/60 "2012-11-16T17:24:08Z")

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I know, all of these punners, making spectacles of themselves.

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