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***THE OFFICIAL FRIDAY SILLINESS THREAD***

Posted on 11/14/2014 5:04:59 AM PST by Lucky9teen

Flashback Friday

Since I completely spaced out doing the OFST this week, I'm pulling from my archives. Enjoy!!!



Puns & Other Word Play

Many see puns as cheap humor, one-liners, or groaners, despite their prevalence in our culture. They are most often seen in the names of businesses, or advertising. Others, like the writer Jonathan Swift, see them as a challenging art form, where one shapes words like a cobbler bends leather. 'Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words,' said Swift, 'which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.

However the dictionary describes a pun as:

pun
n.
A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.


Egg Plant

The Art of Humorous Puns

Humorous Puns
Many puns hardly ever illicit more than groans from those subjected to their obvious humor. There are many theories as to why this is. One such theory put forth by Freud states those who do not laugh at puns have punus envitas.

What is it that makes a good pun? Here are a few pointers.

Quick set-up (brevity is important)
No proper names (listener might not recognize the name)
Familiar references
A pointed revelation (you should see the spark in the listeners' eyes as they 'get it')
Maximum wordplay throughout


Tap Dancers

The PUNishment of it All!

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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: friday; ofst; silliness
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1 posted on 11/14/2014 5:04:59 AM PST by Lucky9teen
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In before the You Know


2 posted on 11/14/2014 5:10:39 AM PST by 5Madman2 (There is no such thing as an experienced suicide bomber)
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3 posted on 11/14/2014 5:12:12 AM PST by Lucky9teen (Justice will not be served until those who r unaffected r as outraged as those who r. B Franklin)
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Happy Friday. Thanks Lucky9teen.


4 posted on 11/14/2014 5:12:44 AM PST by kevinm13 (Manmade "Global Warming" is a HOAX!)
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To: Lucky9teen

Al Gore and Bill Clinton are fishing and Al asks Bill ‘What are you going to do when you get back to the White House?”
Bill Answers “I’m going to rip off Hillary’s panties”. “Mr President, are you sure that’s a good idea?”. Bill responds “I have to. They are cutting off the circulation to my legs”.


5 posted on 11/14/2014 5:21:27 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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Donate And Keep The Lights On


6 posted on 11/14/2014 5:22:16 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Lucky9teen

Happy Friday....new computer here. Windows 8 is proof that Microsoft is built by sadists


7 posted on 11/14/2014 5:33:26 AM PST by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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Yee Haw!!


8 posted on 11/14/2014 5:35:17 AM PST by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: Lucky9teen

Top ten...perhaps!


9 posted on 11/14/2014 5:36:46 AM PST by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign, number sign, or octothorpe. ###)
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To: ErnBatavia

WOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO TGIF!!!!


10 posted on 11/14/2014 5:45:34 AM PST by Currentriverrat ((Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.))
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Top 15 from China?


11 posted on 11/14/2014 5:49:16 AM PST by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
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Top 20 perhaps


12 posted on 11/14/2014 5:53:37 AM PST by DooDahhhh
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To: Lucky9teen

Top Two Oh!


13 posted on 11/14/2014 5:55:02 AM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Lucky9teen

Top 20!


14 posted on 11/14/2014 6:00:00 AM PST by Monkey Face (What matters most in life are quotes and stuff that tell you what life is really all about.)
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To: Lucky9teen

I;’m in late, but I took the day off and slept in.


15 posted on 11/14/2014 6:04:40 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Lucky9teen

Good Morning!


16 posted on 11/14/2014 6:05:49 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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Sweet 16!

Never been....never mind.


17 posted on 11/14/2014 6:06:40 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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TOP TWENTY!!!!
18 posted on 11/14/2014 6:07:05 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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I got here as quick as I could.

19 posted on 11/14/2014 6:13:35 AM PST by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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As if my life weren’t trying enough,
I have to live on a street spelled Gough.

I just can’t see the reason, though;
Why not pronounce it simply Gough?

And if slough is slough to rhyme with through,
Why the deuce can’t I say Gough?

Or if you’re saying plough and bough,
What’s wrong with just plain Gough?

You can lead a horse to the watering trough,
but you can’t make him drink—
And I WON’T say Gough


20 posted on 11/14/2014 6:16:16 AM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try.)
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