# Questions Only **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [December 9, 2012, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491 "2012-12-09T05:40:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 110
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2181 "2013-06-18T17:07:41Z")
How could we knot forgive since sooner or later we willow do the same? ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2182 "2013-06-18T17:16:12Z")
Did I make too much of an ash of myself? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2183 "2013-06-18T17:23:58Z")
Are you aspen for penance? ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2184 "2013-06-18T17:36:18Z")
Can I spruce up a bit before I prostrate myself? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2185 "2013-06-18T17:40:37Z")
I was going to ask Why?, but instead Walnut? ---
**Author:** ![Didact\_Lectorem777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f05b48/32.png) [@Didact\_Lectorem777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Didact_Lectorem777)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2186 "2013-06-18T17:47:14Z")
How can you make something as difficult as punning seem so easy? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2187 "2013-06-18T17:52:48Z")
If I said my Dad taught me to pun as a mere child and I’ve been winning pun contents for the last 40 years, would you think I was bragging? ---
**Author:** ![Didact\_Lectorem777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f05b48/32.png) [@Didact\_Lectorem777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Didact_Lectorem777)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2188 "2013-06-18T17:53:37Z")
Is it bragging to tell the truth? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2189 "2013-06-18T18:01:32Z")
What is truth? ---
**Author:** ![Didact\_Lectorem777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f05b48/32.png) [@Didact\_Lectorem777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Didact_Lectorem777)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2190 "2013-06-18T18:03:31Z")
Doesn’t the dictionary define truth as ‘never having to say I’m wrong?’ ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2191 "2013-06-18T18:06:25Z")
Did Humpty Dumpty write your dictionary? ---
**Author:** ![Didact\_Lectorem777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f05b48/32.png) [@Didact\_Lectorem777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Didact_Lectorem777)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2192 "2013-06-18T18:09:31Z")
Was Humpty Dumpty an egg? ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2193 "2013-06-18T18:32:52Z")
Wasn’t the yolk on him? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2194 "2013-06-18T18:33:46Z")
Have you read Alice and Humpty’s discussion on the meaning of words in Through the Looking Glass? ---
**Author:** ![Didact\_Lectorem777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f05b48/32.png) [@Didact\_Lectorem777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Didact_Lectorem777)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2195 "2013-06-18T18:34:40Z")
PP, there was an opportunity for puns there, and you went for the literary discussion? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2196 "2013-06-18T18:57:52Z")
Do I really need to \*\*shell \*\*out my paranomastic puissance on every occasion? ---
**Author:** ![Didact\_Lectorem777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f05b48/32.png) [@Didact\_Lectorem777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Didact_Lectorem777)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2197 "2013-06-18T19:01:28Z")
Why not? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2198 "2013-06-18T19:02:59Z")
Don’t you know some folk find it eggsasperating? ---
**Author:** ![Didact\_Lectorem777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f05b48/32.png) [@Didact\_Lectorem777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Didact_Lectorem777)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2199 "2013-06-18T19:05:55Z")
Well…uhh…I suppose, you shouldn’t…umm…be egged on so easily…did I do it? ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491/2200 "2013-06-18T19:08:16Z")
> [@Didact\_Lectorem777](#): > > PP, there was an opportunity for puns there, and you went for the literary discussion? Wouldn’t you say he laid an egg on that one? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491.md?page=109) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-only/643491.md?page=111)