# Too Good a Pun Not to Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-good-a-pun-not-to-share/112761 **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **Created:** [June 7, 2002, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-good-a-pun-not-to-share/112761 "2002-06-07T00:28:22Z") **Posts on this page:** 12 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus) #### Post date: [June 7, 2002, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-good-a-pun-not-to-share/112761/1 "2002-06-07T00:28:22Z")
[Letter to the Editor from today’s Providence Journal](http://www.projo.com/opinion/letters/content/projo_20020606_dobson.74a79.html) ---
### Author: ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater) #### Post date: [June 7, 2002, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-good-a-pun-not-to-share/112761/2 "2002-06-07T00:39:54Z")
For some reason I have to go get a cheesesteak right this very minute. BRB… ---
### Author: ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie) #### Post date: [June 7, 2002, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-good-a-pun-not-to-share/112761/3 "2002-06-07T02:03:37Z")
Man, why didn’t I think of that?? Good one! Zette ---
### Author: ![Nightsong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightsong/32/3083_2.png) [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong) #### Post date: [June 7, 2002, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-good-a-pun-not-to-share/112761/4 "2002-06-07T03:45:12Z")
Ow. Ow. Ow. Owwww… That is a **bad** one. (In a good way, of course.) Ug. _heads off, muttering to self_ * * * \<\< …I weigh twice as much as you, and I look good on the BBQ… \>\> ---
### Author: ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler) #### Post date: [June 7, 2002, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-good-a-pun-not-to-share/112761/5 "2002-06-07T04:21:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > . . . sharpening up their skills . . . > \*\* Why does this bring to mind the visual of sharpening one’s carving knife? Tripler I have my A-1 Sauce ready, tho. . . ---
### Author: ![Jeffrey\_Hartnett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/77aa72/32.png) [@Jeffrey\_Hartnett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeffrey_Hartnett) #### Post date: [June 8, 2002, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-good-a-pun-not-to-share/112761/6 "2002-06-08T03:48:25Z")
Somebody (I don’t know who) should be fined for that. It was a great pun. ---
### Author: ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad) #### Post date: [June 8, 2002, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-good-a-pun-not-to-share/112761/7 "2002-06-08T07:05:38Z")
That was awful. If the definition of ‘a great pun’ is ‘a pretty damned horrible pun, and a bad joke besides’ then I guess this is a contender. Otherwise, it is mindnumbingly awful. ---
### Author: ![Billy\_Rubin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billy_rubin/32/3622_2.png) [@Billy\_Rubin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy_Rubin) #### Post date: [June 8, 2002, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-good-a-pun-not-to-share/112761/8 "2002-06-08T10:33:14Z")
[homer]mmmmm, sacred cattle-mmmmmmm[/homer] ---
### Author: ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea) #### Post date: [June 8, 2002, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-good-a-pun-not-to-share/112761/9 "2002-06-08T11:14:33Z")
::winces:: that was horrid bad euty dog no biscuit 😃 I still hink really great puns was in the early xanth series and the callahan books by spider robinson ---
### Author: ![Nenya\_Elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@Nenya\_Elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nenya_Elizabeth) #### Post date: [June 8, 2002, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-good-a-pun-not-to-share/112761/10 "2002-06-08T12:12:58Z")
Aughhh!!! 😃 Loved it. ---
### Author: ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85) #### Post date: [June 8, 2002, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-good-a-pun-not-to-share/112761/11 "2002-06-08T13:53:03Z")
Cows. I know the Masai aren’t really rich, but _cows_? Like an editorial I read on this commented, what would America do with 14 more of what we have millions of already? Although if they make a drink out of cow’s blood and milk like the Masai on _Survivor: Africa_ demonstrated, that would be interesting. The president probably wouldn’t like it…but that’s enough beating around the Bush. 🙂 ---
### Author: ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers) #### Post date: [June 8, 2002, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-good-a-pun-not-to-share/112761/12 "2002-06-08T17:59:35Z")
I’ve read better. One of my favourites was a headline in _Time_ or _Newsweek_ a few years back, over a review of the Burt Reynolds/Kathleen Turner film _Switching Channels_, a remake of the classic movie _His Girl Friday_, with the reporters shifted from a newspaper to a television station. The title was WEAKENED UPDATE. I’ve always had the sneaking suspicion the reporter deliberately panned the movie just so he/she could use that headline.