# Puns: Your personal best **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 1, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-your-personal-best/466065 "2008-10-01T20:22:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-your-personal-best/466065/1 "2008-10-01T20:22:34Z")
I was in Gettysburg this weekend and took a “ghost tour,” in which a guide in Civil War-era civilian garb and toting a lantern took a group of friends and me around at night, talking about the many ghosts said to haunt the town. The guide said the man who wrote the first “ghosts of Gettysburg” book has been so busy lately he doesn’t write them anymore, but hires (wait for it) ghost writers. I suggested that, if he’s really pressed for time, he could do the writing while taking long flights, with… ghost writers in the sky. Any groaners you’ve come up with and are inordinately proud of? ---
**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:** [October 1, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-your-personal-best/466065/2 "2008-10-01T20:29:01Z")
Well, I once named a honey wine I brewed “Cyrus the Great”… because one man’s Mede is another man’s Persian. (I know. I’ll go quietly.) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-your-personal-best/466065/3 "2008-10-01T20:29:44Z")
I changed the ending of “Stupify” by Disturbed from “look in my face, step in my soul, I begin to Stupify” to “look in my fizzle, step in my sizzle, I begin to Snoopify.” ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-your-personal-best/466065/4 "2008-10-01T20:37:44Z")
Just today at lunch, someone mentioned how something had been made in Akron, Ohio. I referred to it as “an Akron-ism” and got no love whatsoever for my effort. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-your-personal-best/466065/5 "2008-10-01T20:38:21Z")
Is this an attempt to commit Suicide by SDMB Pun Police? ---
**Author:** ![Litoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@Litoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Litoris)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-your-personal-best/466065/6 "2008-10-01T20:38:24Z")
My daughter’s father (obviously, my ex) used to work in a Danish bakery, whenever people would ask about his job, I would tell them he works in a bakery, he hates it, but he needs the dough! Yeh, it’s really lame, but always makes me giggle. ---
**Author:** ![Debon\_Err](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ea924/32.png) [@Debon\_Err](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debon_Err)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-your-personal-best/466065/7 "2008-10-01T20:40:29Z")
Heir: Pure Brilliance! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-your-personal-best/466065/8 "2008-10-01T20:40:55Z")
I had a character in a game once that you could partially name. It had to be \_\_\_\_ Yan, Yan being the name he came with, the blank part of it the part you named. I called him “Flaming Yan”. Say it out loud. I still laugh my fool head over it. ---
**Author:** ![Debon\_Err](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ea924/32.png) [@Debon\_Err](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debon_Err)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-your-personal-best/466065/9 "2008-10-01T20:45:12Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#): > > Just today at lunch, someone mentioned how something had been made in Akron, Ohio. I referred to it as “an Akron-ism” and got no love whatsoever for my effort. ☹ I must give credit where credit is due. Well done! They just didn’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-your-personal-best/466065/10 "2008-10-01T20:47:23Z")
Well, in Akron, it’s not all that original . . . there used to be an antique shop on South Main Street called An-Akron-Ism. Right about where the ballpark is now. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-your-personal-best/466065/11 "2008-10-01T20:48:28Z")
There was this guy who always contributed to the Save the San Andreas Foundation… he was generous to a fault. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-your-personal-best/466065/12 "2008-10-01T20:51:12Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Well, in Akron, it’s not all that original . . . there used to be an antique shop on South Main Street called An-Akron-Ism. Right about where the ballpark is now. Hey, I’ve never been to Akron! :mad:😉 I thought it was pretty good for a Wednesday… I used to know a guy who, in his early years of his Spanish teaching career, raised eyebrows when he talked about Cuba. People thought he was a commie or something. I said, “Well the important thing is that you made good Marx in school.” He looked at me…I spelled it for him. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-your-personal-best/466065/13 "2008-10-01T20:55:42Z")
It was very good! Not too overplayed, either; you don’t see it on every street corner. “Norka” is another"; it’s Akron spelled backward. It was a soft-drink company a long time ago and people still collect the bottles. Now Norka Futon is a pretty successful small chain of furniture stores. A fair number of business are called “Rubber City.” ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-your-personal-best/466065/14 "2008-10-01T21:02:32Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Now Norka Futon is a pretty successful small chain of furniture stores. Do they run ads like, “A Norka Futon…it’s a whale of a deal!”? ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-your-personal-best/466065/15 "2008-10-01T21:25:37Z")
I was digging through the freezer the other day, trying to find an ice pop that wasn’t mushy. Sigh. Many are cold, few are frozen. ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-your-personal-best/466065/16 "2008-10-01T21:36:53Z")
One time, my grandmother was trying to open a package of cheese with a knife or scissors or something. I heard her say “Ouch!” while trying to open the package, so I said, “Hmm… That must be the sharp cheddar.” ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-your-personal-best/466065/17 "2008-10-01T21:41:13Z")
A couple of years ago, there was a lot of debate raging here in Jersey about the number of bears finding their way into residential neighborhoods, and whether or not they should allow bear hunts. While having a family talk about it, someone mentioned allowing the bear hunts, and donating the meat to homeless shelters. That prompted the following conversation between myself and my sister-in-law. Her: Yeah, but can you eat bear meat? Me: Sure…I’ve had it before. Her: Really? How was it? Me: Too gristly. ---
**Author:** ![Lavender\_Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b782af/32.png) [@Lavender\_Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lavender_Falcon)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-your-personal-best/466065/18 "2008-10-01T22:10:28Z")
This will date me, but back in college, my roommates were watching baseball, and the announcer kept talking about a player named Darryl Strawberry. I don’t watch baseball, so on the off chance there was a pun in there, I asked my roommates what position he played. Turned out he was a fielder, to which I replied: “So will Strawberry field forever?” Not long after, I went to my intro biology prof’s office hours. He was looking over the class roster, and remarked there were a lot of Smiths in the class. So I asked him how many Joneses there were, and he said there were about as many, to which I replied, “So I guess the Smiths are keeping up with the Joneses.” ---
**Author:** ![Amber\_in\_Treasury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Amber\_in\_Treasury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amber_in_Treasury)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-your-personal-best/466065/19 "2008-10-01T22:12:09Z")
Marion is jonesing for some steroids. Sorry Anaamika, but I don’t get the Flaming Yan one… ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-your-personal-best/466065/20 "2008-10-01T22:16:56Z")
> [@Amber\_in\_Treasury](#): > > Sorry Anaamika, but I don’t get the Flaming Yan one… Since Anaamika is indisposed…“Filet mignon.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-your-personal-best/466065.md?page=2)