Reread the Wikipedia article.
Posts 306 and 307 in this thread were pretty sublime, I think.
Daniel
The dog days of summer are so-called because they happen during the time you can Sirius (The Dog Star) before sunrise. The rest of the year it’s too close to the sun, or something, and you can’t see it.
Sirius is pronounced “serious”. Hence the punnage.
Sirius-ly
Ohh. Sirius. Duh. :smack:
That’s also good foreshadowing.
Another Discworld one. In 'Soul Music, the troll who acts as general dogsbody for the Band With Rocks In is named Asphalt.
I still maintain that, in a discussion of kilts and their wearers, covering irish kilts and others, a description of someone insisting only that Scotsmen wore them properly, is best called a ‘Nae Trews’ Scotsman post.
Nobody got it.
I once wrote a message to a friend that said “I wish I could play the piano. You might say I have pianist envy.”
It took him three weeks to realize that was a pun. And he married me anyway.
During the fall carnival, the university I attended had the ever popular jail, wherein, for a small donation, one could have another student or even (under certain circumstances) a faculty or staff member “arrested” and held for a short period of time (25¢/15 minutes). Unless, of course, they paid their “bail” (50¢/15 minutes) and earned an early release.
One day I passed by the jail to find our resident assistant (who happened to be Australian) staring morosely out the barred window. Unable to resist, I smiled at him and said “Remind you of home?” He glared at he and informed me that Americans, one and all, had penal colony envy.
As my final trick in my close-up magic set, I move a punched out hole from one of my business cards to another one. When I’m done I give the card to the spectator and say, “And that’s the whole trick.”
Not many get it, but then you have to have a few jokes in there just for yourself.
In a recent strip of the webcomic Ugly Hill, the main character and his best friend went to the local store:
“Fieffinger’s Discount Store”
CalMeacham’s previous sig was another brilliant one, understood only by fans of Cordwainer Smith, such as myself. Unfortunately, I have no idea what the current one refers to.
Here’s a story I’ve related on the board before.
Around 1960, when I was about 10, I saw the Ernie Kovacs shows being broadcast at the time. I saw this skit. I thought it was moderately funny. It had no dialog and was set to music I didn’t recognize.
I saw the skit again one evening in 1977 when it was broadcast on PBS, and I’ll describe it fully now. I must emphasize, I now recognized the music. The music started out quietly and spooky. A surgical operation was beginning, and the usual visual cliches were used.
[Spoiler]This went on for a minute or two, when the music suddenly became lively, and the doctors and nurses appeared to be laughing under their masks. Then the music became triumphant, and the camera revealed not an operating room, but a dining room table, and the operation was really the carving of a roast turkey.
The next day at work, after morning break, I thought to myself, “Hmm, that sketch was funny. Operating room, roast turkey, music by Igor Stravinsky from his ballet “The Firebird”. Yeah that was…” Then, out loud I screamed “OH NOOOOOOO!!!”[/spoiler]
At one time I e-mailed my story to his widow, Edie Adams, via the Ernie Kovacs Fan Club. She got a big kick out of it.
I don’t get it. Too subtle for me to pick up on. Care to explain?
I saw this joke. I thought it was funny.
But I liked dissecting.
Oh, OK, mee know spel gud.
But at least I’m punny. Sometimes.
rowrrbazzle, I don’t get it.
1.) Why, thank you.
2.) It refers to the end of the Shyamalan movie Signs, which many Dopers are annoyed with (and which many seem to love), drawing a parallel between the fate of the ugly-looking green alien in that and the ugly green witch at the end of the 1939 Wizard of Oz, using her lines from the end. I especially liked the idea of the alien shouting “What a world! What a world!”. It’s not a great sig, but I needed to change the old one.
3.) I have to third the comments about your spoilered post – I don’t get it, either. You’ll have to explain it. C’mon – I explained mine!
NPR plays little musicle clips after stories that sometimes relate to the story. Once, after a story about a guy who developed a way to tenderize meat using exlplosives in a water tank (I kid you not) they played something I recognized, but didn’t think about too clearly.
About 5 minutes later it hit me. It was Carl Stalling’s version of the Raymond Scott tune “Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals.” I like to think that I’m one of 5 people who got the joke.
Roast Turkey = Fire Bird.
rowr – Okay, I got that much. I thought there must be something more subtle I was missing.
So what vegetable is this place?