Topic: The wordplay thread (Read 34375 times)

Is it cold in here? · « **on:** 19 Oct 2012, 16:00 »

All sorts of fun with language.

As a starting point, Acronym Fail:
Commissioner of Reykjavik Area Police
(apocryphal)Perkin Elmer Network Information Services
Critical Update Notification Tool

Carl-E · « **Reply #1 on:** 19 Oct 2012, 16:13 »

My great grandfather was a German immigrant who loved his second language. I only visited his home once, I was about 11 or 12, and he'd been dead since before I was born, but his son (my great-uncle) still lived there.

Going to the basement to see the presses (he was a printer), I noticed there was a cardboard cutout of a duck tacked on the wall above the doorway.

As soon as the words, "What's that there for?" left my mouth, I hid my head on the top of the low door frame.

Gotta appreciate a man who can come up with something like that in a different language...

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #2 on:** 20 Oct 2012, 19:03 »

Great parking signs:

"NO GENIE PARKING"
"RESERVED PATIENT PARKING ONLY" (so where do the outgoing patients park?)

Carl-E · « **Reply #3 on:** 20 Oct 2012, 20:29 »

... and what about the patients who don't have reservations ?

Redball · « **Reply #4 on:** 20 Oct 2012, 20:56 »

To me, wordplay means puns. Someone want to start, maybe based on characters, or other strip-related stuff? Or I will myself, Svenever one comes to mind.

Kugai · « **Reply #5 on:** 20 Oct 2012, 23:11 »

Well, I wouldn't mind a Reed of one or two.

Omega Entity · « **Reply #6 on:** 20 Oct 2012, 23:15 »

I'm not sure I'm Mari'd to the idea, myself...

Kugai · « **Reply #7 on:** 20 Oct 2012, 23:19 »

Yeah, I doubt it's anything worth Raven about.

jwhouk · « **Reply #8 on:** 21 Oct 2012, 10:52 »

I think it'll probably Faye away or something.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #9 on:** 21 Oct 2012, 12:09 »

You people just keep getting Meena and Meena.

Kugai · « **Reply #10 on:** 21 Oct 2012, 12:36 »

Yeah, we just like Torturain' you

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #11 on:** 21 Oct 2012, 13:05 »

we'll run out of characters soon - we can't just keep on making these jokes with im.pun.ity

LTK · « **Reply #12 on:** 21 Oct 2012, 15:18 »

The thread is going to tapir off if we don't branch out to non-characters. Don't keep Hannering on the main cast!

jwhouk · « **Reply #13 on:** 21 Oct 2012, 15:38 »

Dora SHOULD we?

Kugai · « **Reply #14 on:** 22 Oct 2012, 21:42 »

As long as I remember not to Padma Posts

jwhouk · « **Reply #15 on:** 22 Oct 2012, 21:47 »

This is crazy. We've been trying to bring some sanity to this thread, some stability, and stop it with the punning. But no, all we're doing is just MOMO, MOMO, MOMO, MOMO.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #16 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 04:55 »

Fans of Hanna Barbera cartoons collect Hanna lore.

Carl-E · « **Reply #17 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 05:56 »

Unless they're Barber-ic.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #18 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 16:30 »

I love deliberately misunderstanding noun phrases, such as the listing in the Yellow Pages for "Dancing Supplies".

Redball · « **Reply #19 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 16:34 »

"Motel food"?

Akima · « **Reply #20 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 16:57 »

COULOMB people, it's time to electrify this current discussion! It has potential, but it's only been running FARADAY or two, and it's really degenerating, as the last couple of postings AMPly demonstrate. WATT we want is a JOULE of reVOLTing puns, or we might as well talk about something else OERSTED!

Redball · « **Reply #21 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 17:46 »

Enough, already! I'm trying to find peace!
Ohm, ohm, ohm, ohm....

TheEvilDog · « **Reply #22 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 17:48 »

Akima, some of those puns are truly shocking.

Poor Penelope, everyone wants a pizza the girl.

jwhouk · « **Reply #23 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 17:48 »

I am SHOCKED, SHOCKED, I tell you!

Redball · « **Reply #24 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 17:50 »

So am I, and deeply concerned that some of us won't understand this new direction. But it's not necessarily a sine that we're squares.

Akima · « **Reply #25 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 18:26 »

As long as we don't go off at a tangent. I will reciprocate, by putting on my cotan hat and leaving.

jwhouk · « **Reply #26 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 18:35 »

Just remember not to drink and derive.

Akima · « **Reply #27 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 18:53 »

And now for something absolutely differential. I don't suffer from mood swings, but sometimes I am tensor nervous enough to scalar wall, but at others I'm much better integrated.

Redball · « **Reply #28 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 19:12 »

Don't know if any of us can beat Akima. I think she'll emerge the vector.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #29 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 21:18 »

Quote from: Akima on 23 Oct 2012, 16:57

COULOMB people, it's time to electrify this current discussion! It has potential, but it's only been running FARADAY or two, and it's really degenerating, as the last couple of postings AMPly demonstrate. WATT we want is a JOULE of reVOLTing puns, or we might as well talk about something else OERSTED!

Wire you doing this to us?

TheEvilDog · « **Reply #30 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 21:45 »

What it Boyles down to is Akima was making a scientific pun. Unfortunately, the chymistry was sorely lacking.

Kugai · « **Reply #31 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 21:52 »

And now for something completely different

The Philosophers Drinking Song

Akima · « **Reply #32 on:** 23 Oct 2012, 22:11 »

I don't think you broke the rules of utility with that posting, but you definitely Bentham.

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #33 on:** 24 Oct 2012, 01:16 »

Oh Akima, with your electricity puns you really have been this thread's transformer. Clearly the rest of us are going to have to work hard to keep you at bay. Nat that I would want to stop the joy that you are bringing us but I'm disappointed that looking at the pun rankings I am number four.

pwhodges · « **Reply #34 on:** 24 Oct 2012, 02:51 »

Some of the puns here are quite a stretch. In the same vein, I offer you not my own but a selection from the emails in my in-box at work this morning:

Quote

[Context:] Ahh - the cycle light debate - as soon as this comes along I know winter's upon us. An old faithful like mince pies and Christmas trees.

Yes, it goes in cycles.

Indeed, someone peddles this every year.

Thought it rang a bell.. We need a brake from being saddled with the same old tyred conversations.

And as I seemed to start this topic is it wheely interesting and go round and round every so often?

How much longer are we going to be saddled with these bad puns?

We could always notch it up a gear before we pedal off into the sunset.

Can't help but feel this conversation has been derail(leur)ed.

That's getting right to the hub of the matter.....

Much more of this and people will start getting crank-y

We're certainly being led off-topic...

I think we need to pump some more humour into this thread

Why? Do you think it is going flat? I agree, we don't get puns of the same calliper as we used to, perhaps some of us are starting to tyre and need a brake?

I'm surprised no-one has been asked to go fork themselves, yet...

For goodness' sake, put a spoke in it. This cycle of bad puns is making me tyred.

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #35 on:** 24 Oct 2012, 06:53 »

I recently found myself needing to produce a series of medieval puns. Here is what I came up with in a couple of minutes:

Q: What do people who pledge loyalty to a feudal lord in return for protection use as lubricant?
A: Vassal-ine

Q: What did the indifferent king say to the castle builder's argument?
A: It was a moat point

Q: What was the Knights'-errant favorite movie?
A: A Liege of Their Own

Q: What argument did the castellan use to claim all the mutton chops as his own?
A: He said they were his ramparts

This is what happens when you graduate with degrees in history and literature and then cannot find a remotely relevant job.

TheEvilDog · « **Reply #36 on:** 24 Oct 2012, 07:05 »

Quote from: pwhodges on 24 Oct 2012, 02:51

Some of the puns here are quite a stretch.

Hey, mine wasn't stretched, just obscure

Rockman · « **Reply #37 on:** 24 Oct 2012, 10:24 »

One night in college a bunch of us were up late studying in the mineralogy lab (about 3 a.m.) and we decided to try and come up with geology pickup lines. This is what my research partner came up with:

"You must be a clay particle because you sure are fine."

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #38 on:** 24 Oct 2012, 11:07 »

"You must be galena because you have perfect cleavage."

Akima's electrical punning really hertz.

Kugai · « **Reply #39 on:** 24 Oct 2012, 21:34 »

I Gauss that this will continue

Skewbrow · « **Reply #40 on:** 25 Oct 2012, 00:52 »

Quote from: Redball on 23 Oct 2012, 19:12

Don't know if any of us can beat Akima. I think she'll emerge the vector.

Well, she has more angles than a trigonometry book.

Since the mortgage I cosined with my wife has been fully paid a long time ago, I guess I can afford to give a bad math puns thread a secant chance.

Rockman · « **Reply #41 on:** 25 Oct 2012, 05:05 »

Lately emo's struck me as a very Holocene.

PthariensFlame · « **Reply #42 on:** 25 Oct 2012, 08:29 »

I accidentally bleached a load of clothes the other day, so now I have to wear Paleogenes.

PthariensFlame · « **Reply #43 on:** 25 Oct 2012, 09:02 »

When the Group of heroes busted open the wizards' spy Ring, they had a Field day playing with the wizardly portals left behind. One of them got very Monoid when he was bombarded with a whole Dimension full of male enhancement ads: a Grothendieck universe. Another stumbled upon a stash of expensive goods, and decided to wear the dress with Manifolds in it that the found. One even found a bunch of felines performing a violent play: a Multicategory show. The leader claimed that he was braver than any of the spies had been, and that he had Monads than them too. The heroes went Turing across he countryside. Everywhere they went, people played music from the 1970's, making it a Functor.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #44 on:** 25 Oct 2012, 20:35 »

Does the name "Pavlov" ring a bell?

After the experiments, his dogs joined the Salivation Army.

Asterus · « **Reply #45 on:** 25 Oct 2012, 20:44 »

So to sum it up, we have a thread devoted to wordplay, yet no poets have shown up Riemann. Clearly we must integrate it into the conversation.

On a side note, it seems odd to have so many subjects transposed among each other, though to be fair staying on topic isn't really my forte.

jwhouk · « **Reply #46 on:** 25 Oct 2012, 20:45 »

Dewey Decimal System? Dewey EVER!

Kugai · « **Reply #47 on:** 25 Oct 2012, 21:46 »

You don't have to be a Barbarian about it.

Nobody's Conan anyone

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #48 on:** 26 Oct 2012, 00:57 »

I hope people give the music puns a rest before I throw them off a clef.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #49 on:** 26 Oct 2012, 01:11 »

Music puns are bound to lead us to treble. Maybe minor, maybe major, but definitely treble. I wonder if the staff - er, the mods might step in if we start to do away with this nonsense altogether.

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