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WCDT: 2465-2469 (10-14 June, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
FunkyTuba:
Her puns are clever. Too clever.
IMO, good puns (ones that you'd share in a conversation) should have a punch-you-in-the-gut "gosh why didn't I think of that already" quality. Clever puns belong in prose or in the third or fourth round of a pun contest.
Sidhekin:
Third or fourth round? There hasn't even been a complete round yet!
Clearly, what she needs is a sparring partner. Even the bantering baristas need a few rounds of setup before achieving hilarious quality!
FunkyTuba:
--- Quote from: Sidhekin on 10 Jun 2013, 10:44 ---Third or fourth round? There hasn't even been a complete round yet!
--- End quote ---
exactly my point ... to shoehorn a pun contest into an ongoing conversation the punner must choose not a clever pun but rather a stupidly-accessible one that will draw out a "gee, I can do better than that" reaction
that said, picking a pun fight with non-sequitur specialist Emily and could-find-1000-rhymes-and-near-rhymes-to-any-word-you-can-think-up-in-half-a-millisecond Momo might leave Claire with more than she bargained for
Kugai:
Robot Religion?
Interesting
So say we all.
Thrudd:
Going back to the pole on scrappers weapon-ology I chose the Stop Sign with a few added decorations "Please" "Living" and "♥"
It's a standard post apocalyptic or street punk weapon of bad-ass-ery.
Warning - while you were typing your keyboard had been commandeered by a Barovioan Otaku using a c64. You may wish to adjust your pixels.
A pun contest is never shoehorned in. At best you can try and kick-start one into a conversation by booting one or two choice comments on the fly.
As pointed out though, you should never stand still and wait for a response.
Being a master of non-sequesters is not the same as wielding the pun or accessing a thesaurus or just rhyming.
A pun is a unique ephemeral creature of questionable pedigree.
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