View Full Version : Shakespeare was not the master of puns...


superslug
Jan 16, 2004, 06:44 PM
Shakespeare was not the master of puns that everyone in the literary community thinks he was. You see, by definition, puns are plays on words. All of Shakespeare's plays were on stages.

puglover
Jan 16, 2004, 07:56 PM
AUGH! Stop the puns! :crazyeye:

superslug
Jan 16, 2004, 09:28 PM
You're right puglover, I should stop the puns. Constantly spewing them makes my throat hurt and chloraseptic to ease the relief costs money. That and the stuff is nasty. My chemistry class once took a field trip to a plant where they manufacture the stuff in chloraseptic-tanks.

Vancouver 2010
Jan 16, 2004, 10:17 PM
Two words: Oh ... dear.

Two other words: Invisible ... cows.

SuperBeaverInc.
Jan 16, 2004, 10:20 PM
AAAHHHH! I hate puns.

Goober
Jan 16, 2004, 11:14 PM
What Vancouver2010 typed above, but in TRIPLICATE!!! And that one was fairly literal, a bit like Lumin . . .

superslug
Jan 18, 2004, 01:30 AM
Originally posted by RealGoober
What Vancouver2010 typed above, but in TRIPLICATE!!!
There's no need to do anything in triplicate. That would be cyclicly redundantly repetitive.

Vancouver 2010
Jan 18, 2004, 11:15 AM
Originally posted by RealGoober
What Vancouver2010 typed above, but in TRIPLICATE!!!

Oooo... triplicate! I could say "what RealGoober said, but in Quadruplicate!", but then I'd be repeating myself 12 times over, and that would be repetitively redundant in a redundantly repetitive kind of repetitive way.

CivCube
Jan 18, 2004, 12:15 PM
Good god superslug, how much of the English language have you twisted to serve your punny whims?

superslug
Jan 18, 2004, 12:28 PM
Originally posted by CivCube
Good god superslug, how much of the English language have you twisted to serve your punny whims?
Quite a bit, but rest assured, my puns are better than when I slice rhymes in not so funny trims.

Much like bad basketball shots, they wobble through the air before bouncing off the rims.

CivCube
Jan 18, 2004, 02:00 PM
So I take it that the pun is the best form of communication for you? An unexpressed rind is a terrible thing to taste....

superslug
Jan 18, 2004, 03:40 PM
Originally posted by CivCube
So I take it that the pun is the best form of communication for you?
Too often the case...
Originally posted by CivCube
An unexpressed rind is a terrible thing to taste....
:rotfl::vomit:

Souron
Jan 18, 2004, 04:06 PM
Invisible cows? What hapened to giant green radioactive monkies?

Invisible cows are a natural phenomina :(

superslug
Jan 18, 2004, 04:42 PM
The giant radioactive monkeys have gotten a little old. I respect the fact that they may be a traditional poll option, but I wanted to go with something different.

I've seen the pic your referring to, it's just I used to have a bumper sticker that said "Invisible Cows Currently Control My Mind."

Vancouver 2010
Jan 19, 2004, 12:15 AM
Hey, can't the invisible cows and giant radioactive monkeys coexist in peace?!?

Or are we all afraid that they'll form the Great Coalition of Giant Radioactive Monkeys and Invisible Cows (GCGRMIC) bent on eliminating the entire human race as we know it?

(If you're wondering where this all came from, don't ask me -- I don't know myself. Boy am I tired... :sleep: )

superslug
Jan 19, 2004, 12:42 AM
Actually, the GCGRMIC was formed to get the monkeys more attention as a species since they feel deprived of equal representation in the more established Global Interactive March of Mammals, Invisible Cows and Koalas (aka GIMMICK).

However, GIMMICK has been in scandal lately, as they were rumored to be financing Apple's latest product development. In desperate need for cash, they're looking at segments of the black market. A new design has been proposed to meet the flight computer needs of pilots who smuggle cigarettes across borders. It will be called the tar-Mac.

Goober
Jan 19, 2004, 11:32 PM
Ohh, the GIMMICK and the GCGRMIC, wow, some people have TOO much time on their hands. Although . . .

superslug
Jan 20, 2004, 01:26 AM
Well, RealGoober, all I can misquote is that "It takes one to no-one," which doesn't really make any sense since one is considerably more than no-one. Hmmm, if no-one is zero, absolutely nothing, does that make one one more or infinite more?

Posted by superslug in this very post
...sense since...
This is a prime example of what Vancouver2010 was talking about when he mentioned something being repetitiously redundant in a redundant repetitive sort of way. I know I'm being a copycat with this joke, but hey, copycats are supposed to be repetitive repetitive.

trumpeteer
Jan 20, 2004, 06:51 AM
superslug, when you check your e-mail and find that rotten tomatos have been sent digitally over the Internet, you'll know how much the people at CFC love your punny jokes...

Souron
Jan 20, 2004, 07:59 AM
You could just send him a dope slap. (http://cartalk.cars.com/DopeSlap/)

Lumin
Jan 20, 2004, 12:35 PM
Originally posted by RealGoober
What Vancouver2010 typed above, but in TRIPLICATE!!! And that one was fairly literal, a bit like Lumin . . .

Ok just because i'm a bit literal at times (like in Chemistry all the time :D ). But that is not the point. Oh and that was a really bad pun, you should be PUNished for it. :p

Vancouver 2010
Jan 20, 2004, 01:34 PM
Originally posted by superslug
This is a prime example of what Vancouver2010 was talking about when he mentioned something being repetitiously redundant in a redundant repetitive sort of way. I know I'm being a copycat with this joke, but hey, copycats are supposed to be repetitive repetitive.

But it wasn't just being repetitively redundant in a redundantly repetitive kind of way. It was being redundantly repeititive in a repetitively redundant kind of repetitive way!

All I can say is this: AAAH! The repititions! Oh the repititions! (And some derivatives thrown in for good measure.)

There should be a grade 12 repetitivity class. They could call it Repetitivity 1212. And, by the end of the semester, you should be able to ace all the tests, considering the course would repeat itself every month.

superslug
Jan 20, 2004, 02:13 PM
This thread is starting to run around in circles! But that's appropriate isn't it? I mean, we run around the same circle every 24 hours, right? Then we run around another big circle every 365.25 days, right? And we....well...anyone remember the period of galactic rotation of the top of their head? If not I could always run down to the candy store and look it up on a Milky Way wrapper...