# Warning: Pun ahead!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 27, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669 "2007-06-27T18:40:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669/1 "2007-06-27T18:40:04Z")
I know some of you guys read the xkcd comic. Have you seen todays?
[xkcd](http://xkcd.com/c282.html)
Heeeee!
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669/2 "2007-06-27T18:56:43Z")
[User Friendly](http://www.userfriendly.org/) also has a bad pun today. (6/27/07 - you may have to backtrack if that isn’t today.)
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2007, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669/3 "2007-06-27T19:03:44Z")
xkcd is wonderful. User Friendly? Groan…
Daniel
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### Author:  [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2007, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669/4 "2007-06-27T20:02:41Z")
Oh, God. You’re right, Daniel, User Friendly’s pun is BAD, compared to xkcd’s. 😛
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### Author:  [@Alistair\_McCello](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alistair_McCello)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669/5 "2007-06-27T20:08:10Z")
The User Friendly pun was in a VGCats comic quite a while back as part of the intro to the game Democrat Dance Revolution (DDR). Still groan worthy then to. I would link to it, but I am at work and searching through the archives of a comic might look a bit like slacking off.
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### Author:  [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2007, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669/6 "2007-06-27T20:10:42Z")
Herbs are spices now?
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669/7 "2007-06-27T20:26:36Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon]
Herbs are spices now?
[/QUOTE]
Wow, you’re right–it’s retroactively not funny! ☹
Daniel
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### Author:  [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2007, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669/8 "2007-06-27T20:35:53Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon]
Herbs are spices now?
[/QUOTE]
Poetic license – they use in \*art \* occasionally. 😛
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### Author:  [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2007, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669/9 "2007-06-27T20:38:55Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting]
Poetic license – they use in \*art \* occasionally. 😛
[/QUOTE]
Well yeah, but there’s not really any reason to substitute the word - it would have worked just as well with the word “herbs”…
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### Author:  [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2007, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669/10 "2007-06-27T20:57:15Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon]
Well yeah, but there’s not really any reason to substitute the word - it would have worked just as well with the word “herbs”…
[/QUOTE]
I’m thinking (who the heck knows for sure) the cartoonist thought “spices” would resonate more readily than “herbs” with his targeted comedic demographic, releasing and energizing their inner sense of puntastic appreciation better.
Or something.
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2007, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669/11 "2007-06-27T21:49:26Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon]
Well yeah, but there’s not really any reason to substitute the word - it would have worked just as well with the word “herbs”…
[/QUOTE]
Okay, I was kidding before, but now you actually ARE managing to make it less funny. Why do you kill the joke, **Colophon** , why?!
Daniel
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2007, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669/12 "2007-06-27T22:33:34Z")
> [@](#):
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> User Friendly’s pun is BAD, compared to xkcd’s
I’ll agree with that. It’s much more of a groaner. It’s odd, though, that they both did puns the same day when neither one does puns often.
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From Webster’s New World (paperback):
spice 1. an aromatic vegetable substance, as cinnamon, nutmeg, pepper, etc., used to season food. 2. that which adds zest or interest.
I’m sure culinarians differentiate between herbs and spices, but it’s a specialized quibble. Never quibble at a good pun.
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### Author:  [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2007, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669/13 "2007-06-27T23:00:09Z")
[QUOTE=Left Hand of Dorkness]
Okay, I was kidding before, but now you actually ARE managing to make it less funny. Why do you kill the joke, **Colophon** , why?!
Daniel
[/QUOTE]
Ignoooooore, Daniel. Ignore. It’ll be okay. 🆒 Just enjoy the pun and ignore the nay-sayers.
**Yllaria** , true, there aren’t enough well-crafted puns out there!
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### Author:  [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669/14 "2007-06-27T23:07:41Z")
Oh don’t get me wrong, I thought it was a great pun.
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### Author:  [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2007, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669/15 "2007-06-28T03:45:45Z")
I love it. xkcd always seems to come through for me when I am having a bad day (not that today was bad, but that’s a general xkcd statement - I love that place…)
Of course, even after thinking over the spice/herb, I don’t like it any less. I figure that is a victory for stick-men everywhere.
Brendon Small
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### Author:  [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2007, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669/16 "2007-06-28T05:33:24Z")
[QUOTE=Yllaria]
I’ll agree with that. It’s much more of a groaner. It’s odd, though, that they both did puns the same day when neither one does puns often.
[/QUOTE]
You know, I was about to contest this for xkcd, then I decided to doublecheck. I was surprised to have to go 41 strips back before I found another blatant pun in [this strip](http://xkcd.com/c241.html).
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2007, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669/17 "2007-06-28T15:51:25Z")
I just finished reading through the entire xkcd archive a few days ago (something I’d been meaning to do for months now). Then yesterday I noticed that there is an alt-text joke in every comic as well. Now I have to read the entire archive _again_!
Ah well…something tells me I’ll get over it.
(In case you don’t know about alt-text, hover your mouse over the comic for a few seconds. It’s worth it.)
Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a BITCH ASS SHIT FUCK DAMN!
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### Author:  [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2007, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669/18 "2007-06-28T16:10:06Z")
I dunno – I thought User Friendly’s is more cerebral and offers triple-layering. Xkcd’s consists of a symple homonym, although it is more historically referential. User Friendly wins points on degree of difficulty, but xkcd wins with clean form and execution.
I’m not really helping, am I?
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### Author:  [@Alistair\_McCello](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alistair_McCello)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669/19 "2007-06-28T16:23:56Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#):
>
> I just finished reading through the entire xkcd archive a few days ago (something I’d been meaning to do for months now). Then yesterday I noticed that there is an alt-text joke in every comic as well. Now I have to read the entire archive again!
What! I read through the archives a month or so ago and have been keeping up with the comic since, and I never noticed the alt-text jokes! Now I am going to have to go back and read them again.
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### Author:  [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2007, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669/20 "2007-06-28T16:30:19Z")
How have I missed this site for so long? It’s fantastic!
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