# Puns **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 1, 2005, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns/315220 "2005-08-01T23:09:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sneezy5660](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@sneezy5660](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sneezy5660)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2005, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns/315220/21 "2005-08-02T17:01:46Z")
Wienie less of this hotdogging, please! Get your buns outta here; brrr, it’s chili in here. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2005, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns/315220/22 "2005-08-02T17:04:03Z")
Thinking on the matter further, we can go one way oregano another. It’s a cinnamon men to subject each other to all this herbal abuse. Propriety being the life of spice and all. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2005, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns/315220/23 "2005-08-02T19:19:51Z")
It was inevitable that this thread would devolve into food-related puns. It’s the scientific rule of condimental drift. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2005, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns/315220/24 "2005-08-02T22:27:38Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > It was inevitable that this thread would devolve into food-related puns. > > It’s the scientific rule of condimental drift. Otherwise known a “plate tectonics.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns/315220/25 "2005-08-02T23:07:42Z")
I’m all for pun control, but if we outlaw puns… ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2005, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns/315220/26 "2005-08-02T23:31:59Z")
Using puns does not equal personality. After all, if you use too many, some might find you to be a dill, whole. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2005, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns/315220/27 "2005-08-02T23:36:48Z")
And then wouldn’t you be in a pickle! ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns/315220/28 "2005-08-03T01:32:11Z")
I’ll make you eat your words. your humble TubaDiva someone had to say it. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns/315220/29 "2005-08-03T01:45:32Z")
Don’t take a pizza my heart, though. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns/315220/30 "2005-08-03T02:25:57Z")
Fer the love of OG, people. I feel like I’m on Death Row. Suffering from capital punnishment… ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns/315220/31 "2005-08-03T02:42:44Z")
And soon you’ll be eating crow.\* \*There! Effectively changing us over from food puns to bird puns. ---
**Author:** ![sneezy5660](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@sneezy5660](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sneezy5660)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns/315220/32 "2005-08-03T02:47:29Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > And soon you’ll be eating crow.\* > > \*There! Effectively changing us over from food puns to bird puns. Chicken! (Ha! Food and Bird!) ---
**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:** [August 3, 2005, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns/315220/33 "2005-08-03T03:45:48Z")
I think are a raven loon (HA!) to not like puns. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns/315220/34 "2005-08-03T03:55:55Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > \*There! Effectively changing us over from food puns to bird puns. Sparrow us. ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns/315220/35 "2005-08-03T03:58:00Z")
My tern: I’m robin a gas station, for a lark! (it must have turned midnight very recently…) ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns/315220/36 "2005-08-03T04:02:03Z")
This thread has taken a tern for the verse. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns/315220/37 "2005-08-03T04:03:29Z")
Quite a lisp you got there, little gull. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns/315220/38 "2005-08-03T04:05:34Z")
Gah. **Nature’s Call** beat me to the “tern” pun. Apparently toucan play this name. ---
**Author:** ![sneezy5660](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@sneezy5660](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sneezy5660)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns/315220/39 "2005-08-03T04:37:32Z")
Owl stay out of this finching match. It’s all parrot for the course. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2005, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns/315220/40 "2005-08-03T06:41:12Z")
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