# 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:** 8
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669/21 "2007-06-28T16:57:15Z")
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> User Friendly’s is more cerebral
Link to example?
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### Author:  [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2007, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669/22 "2007-06-28T17:04:49Z")
[QUOTE=Yllaria]
Link to example?
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No, I meant that particular one. Previous posters were comparing two cartoons that appeared on the same day. I offered a purely subjective literary critique of the two.
Um, I think that’s called a “whoosh.”
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### Author:  [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2007, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669/23 "2007-06-28T18:25:00Z")
[QUOTE=Bosstone]
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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And it’s totally made of win, because it’s not just a pun, it’s a really geeky literary reference, too!
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### Author:  [@twopiecesofeight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twopiecesofeight)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2007, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669/24 "2007-06-28T18:33:05Z")
[QUOTE=TroubleAgain]
And it’s totally made of win, because it’s not just a pun, it’s a really geeky literary reference, too!
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_sheepishly looks around_
[embarrassed low voice]I don’t get it. I never read Ender’s Game. (But I read the Wikipedia article.) Where’s the pun?[/elv]
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2007, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669/25 "2007-06-28T18:41:11Z")
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> No, I meant that particular one.
Gah! Sorry. I was just hoping for more puns.
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### Author:  [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2007, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669/26 "2007-06-28T19:29:35Z")
[QUOTE=twopiecesofeight]
_sheepishly looks around_
[embarrassed low voice]I don’t get it. I never read Ender’s Game. (But I read the Wikipedia article.) Where’s the pun?[/elv]
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One of Ender’s strategic masterstrokes is giving his team a common orientation in zero-g combat; the enemy’s gate was defined as “down” so they could execute maneuvers with better coordination.
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### Author:  [@twopiecesofeight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twopiecesofeight)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2007, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669/27 "2007-06-28T19:48:18Z")
[QUOTE=athelas]
One of Ender’s strategic masterstrokes is giving his team a common orientation in zero-g combat; the enemy’s gate was defined as “down” so they could execute maneuvers with better coordination.
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Thanks for the explanation!
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### Author:  [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2007, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-pun-ahead/409669/28 "2007-06-29T15:26:12Z")
I used that xkcd pun the other day, and built on it a little. A friend of mine is from Switzerland, so I asked him if the trains in Basle run on Thyme. He wasn’t amused. Mostly because he didn’t get it, and after I had painstakingly explained, there wasn’t much left to be amused by.
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