Is it just me or is the use of punning becoming excessive? (Particularly in advertising)
Everywhere I turn I’m confronted with one lousy pun after another! Please tell me this will pass!
“He who would pun would pick a pocket.”-Dr. Samuel Johnson.
Yesterday I saw fifteen ads with puns in them. Ads number eleven thru fifteen offended me, but no pun in ten did.
Regards,
Shodan
I should hope so. I much prefer excellent puns.
How can we have a thread on puns without puns?
You managed just fine!
The terms are mutually exclusive.
Now you’ve opuned the door.
We’re in for a punishing.
No suprise it’s running coach to be the first to get his foot in the door.
Is that a pun or a vile clench?
Oh, just a slight tightening of the buttock muscles as I attempted to inhibit the passage of wind.
Anyway, I always say that a thread without puns is like a bike race without a unicyclist dressed as a hot dog.
Thanks, I’m glad we got those two straightened out. :dubious:
I’ve been reading The Pun Also Rises, by John Pollack, which explores both the history and the science of puns. According to JP, you’re doomed. People respond to puns in advertising, responding especially well to product names that include a pun. Until they don’t sell, puns will stay.
Surely The Pun Never Sets would have been a more apt title then?
A thread without puns is like a Nathan’s eating championship without hot dogs.
Indeed. I never go to any bike races without my unicycle and hotdog costume.
That explains where the term “weight-weenie” came from.
C’mon now, a good pun is it’s own reword.
We all support capital punnishment.