# Git outta town before PUNDOWN, foos. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 8, 2006, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/git-outta-town-before-pundown-foos/359915 "2006-06-08T17:10:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/git-outta-town-before-pundown-foos/359915/1 "2006-06-08T17:10:15Z")
I’m your worse nightmare: a black man with a gag. This here’s an open challenge to any wordsmiths, L.A. quippers, NYC punhandlers, bon moteers, phraseologists, punned-its or wascawwy wapscallions wepwete with a way with words: if’n you think you got enough junk your trunk to match me pun for pun, whip it out and let’s see which one of y’all measures up. First round: Free style. Go. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/git-outta-town-before-pundown-foos/359915/2 "2006-06-08T17:15:12Z")
**Askia** , I asky-ya: are a cat’s paws weapons of mouse destruction? ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/git-outta-town-before-pundown-foos/359915/3 "2006-06-08T17:16:56Z")
Neither, especially if there’s detente or declaws. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/git-outta-town-before-pundown-foos/359915/4 "2006-06-08T17:18:52Z")
Surely de cats’ claws would rip de tent? ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/git-outta-town-before-pundown-foos/359915/5 "2006-06-08T17:28:45Z")
_Tent_atively, yes. Which may be a felinious crime. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/git-outta-town-before-pundown-foos/359915/6 "2006-06-08T17:29:18Z")
Askia, and ye shall receive! ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/git-outta-town-before-pundown-foos/359915/7 "2006-06-08T17:29:55Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > _Tent_atively, yes. Which may be a felinious crime. That’s funny – I was feline fine, but then my shrink told me I was two tents. What a coincidence! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/git-outta-town-before-pundown-foos/359915/8 "2006-06-08T17:31:37Z")
If we cop to the felinity, can we get off with a probity period? Or does our pun-ishment merit incarceration? ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/git-outta-town-before-pundown-foos/359915/9 "2006-06-08T17:37:09Z")
Quick with the wit, I see. \*\*The Scrivener. \*\* Yeesh. Scrivenin’ me up the wall, already. **Daithi Lacha.** If you’re two tents, go camping. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/git-outta-town-before-pundown-foos/359915/10 "2006-06-08T17:39:29Z")
Are U2 rock fans? UB40 or younger? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/git-outta-town-before-pundown-foos/359915/11 "2006-06-08T17:39:57Z")
If you are two tents, maybe your wig is too wam. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/git-outta-town-before-pundown-foos/359915/12 "2006-06-08T17:41:05Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > Are U2 rock fans? UB40 or younger? This may take away your headache, but I be profen. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/git-outta-town-before-pundown-foos/359915/13 "2006-06-08T17:43:19Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > If you are two tents, maybe your wig is too wam. For all in tents and porpoises. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/git-outta-town-before-pundown-foos/359915/14 "2006-06-08T17:45:43Z")
**silenus.** If I were two tents, you could treat me like a rapper in the UniverSoul Circus: call me B.I.G. TOPPA. \*\*tdn. \*\* Funny, I’d have sworn you were on the bathroom floor, tile and all. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/git-outta-town-before-pundown-foos/359915/15 "2006-06-08T17:47:22Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > For all in tents and porpoises. Dolphinately. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/git-outta-town-before-pundown-foos/359915/16 "2006-06-08T17:49:06Z")
I fear I may have bitten off more than I can choose. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/git-outta-town-before-pundown-foos/359915/17 "2006-06-08T17:49:54Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > Dolphinately. Manta man, now, I was once a deaf intravenous drug-using fish. I had herring aids. It made me feel a little eel. (But I got out of the net on a technicality.) ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/git-outta-town-before-pundown-foos/359915/18 "2006-06-08T17:50:07Z")
I’m like the bees outside my house: just getting swarmed up here. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/git-outta-town-before-pundown-foos/359915/19 "2006-06-08T17:50:49Z")
bringing a coalman from Tenn to Ohio so that he may kanoddle with a still living Flipper and his friends is wait for it Transporting a miner across state lines for immortal porpoises ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/git-outta-town-before-pundown-foos/359915/20 "2006-06-08T17:51:43Z")
Whale, whale, whale. Fish puns. That’s raising the fish steaks. I may have to get trout of here. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/git-outta-town-before-pundown-foos/359915.md?page=2)