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11 May 2014, 12:41 am

LupaLuna wrote:

Meistersinger wrote:

From what I posted on the musical jokes thread:

A buddy of mine is an organist (he just finished his doctoral studies on that instrument at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. These are his worst puns)

Think positif!

Oh, great!

That's just Swell!

(He also was a source of Helen Keller and dead baby jokes.)

Sounds like your organist buddy is really "pulling all the stops out" on this one, I hope he know how to play chords or that could be a major problem. I wonder if he's an organ donor?

Maybe just within his organization!

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11 May 2014, 6:26 am

Puns are incredibly awesome (:
Often make incredibly obscure ones which include references to films and very definite quotes
So while am busy laughing at them
Someone is giving me a confused look and can't tell what just said
My dad has to ask me if what just said was a joke or not
It's funny
Can't think of one atm because they're mainly spontaneous

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11 May 2014, 6:56 am

I love 'em. Lots of people do. My dad has a new one: when the fat kitten runs into the kitchen anytime someone might have something edible, he says, "Oh look, it's Meow-where. 'Meow!! ! Where is it?'"

(Instead of 'malware.')

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11 May 2014, 11:34 am

I tried to start a rock band, but I took for granite that my bandmates weren't gems. It is now concrete to me that we will never be famous. I didn't know the business was so hard.

I have comorbid bipolar disorder and when I'm hypomanic or manic I find myself making a lot more wordplay. Puns, haikus, limericks.

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12 May 2014, 2:41 pm

I love puns and wordplay humor and I think I'm pretty good at coming up with them. Like one time my friend was telling me about working for a rich couple who each had their own Saab and I said "I don't want to hear your Saab stories!" :lol: But I also like very literal, dumb jokes, like "What's big and red and eats rocks? A big red rock-eater." I find them hilarious even though other people think they're silly.

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12 May 2014, 5:49 pm

EzraS wrote:

i would think puns are supposed to be one of those things we're not supposed to get, and some may not. but i love puns and catch on to them pretty good as long as they're not too abstract.

I disagree. Puns are not in the category of "things aspies are not supposed to get" because puns are textual, and not subtextual. Its the subtextual stuff (the stuff thats between the lines, and not on the lines) that literal minded aspies are supposed to have trouble with- like sarcasm, and irony.

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12 May 2014, 6:59 pm

EzraS wrote:

i would think puns are supposed to be one of those things we're not supposed to get, and some may not. but i love puns and catch on to them pretty good as long as they're not too abstract.

Oh that is so punny!

I get what I get and don't what I don't. There's no "supposed to" about it.
I'm not picking on you, I just wanted to get my pun in there.

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12 May 2014, 7:39 pm

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haha yes, I always laugh at them even if they are REALLY dumb. I know a few related to geology (my profession) and pokemon (my favorite video game).

Geology Rocks! also, because I rock back and forth as a stim, Autistics Rock!

Earthquakes aren't gneiss, but they're no one's fault (gneiss is a metamorphic rock)

Be Gneiss Ore Albite ya! (Albite=a mineral)

Life is tuff, take nothing for granite. (tuff is a volcanic rock)

Don't worry about that piece of schist (a metamorphic rock)

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I'm too jaded to go for this kinda fracking schist!

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12 May 2014, 8:31 pm

Ya'll are making me laugh...

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12 May 2014, 10:04 pm

ghoti wrote:

I get into puns. Moreso that i usually get a pun definition of what someone is saying then i have to think of the intended meaning of what they are trying to say.

One funny pun is your in your user name (which I believe is pronounced "Josh").

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13 May 2014, 11:50 am

JSBACHlover wrote:

ghoti wrote:

I get into puns. Moreso that i usually get a pun definition of what someone is saying then i have to think of the intended meaning of what they are trying to say.

One funny pun is your in your user name (which I believe is pronounced "Josh").

it's "FISH".

Its a reference to famous quip by George Bernard Shaw about how based upon how certain words are spelled in English you could spell the word "fish" as "ghoti".

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13 May 2014, 11:56 am

i have never had much time for puns.

i pan the fun of the fans of puns.

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13 May 2014, 12:38 pm

Oh, that's right - fish. I now remember learning that in 7th grade.

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13 May 2014, 3:53 pm

I also like puns. There is one that I learned from my collage instructor when she said "Tail wagging the dog".

I think that this means don't worry about things that come in the future until it happens. Is this right?

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13 May 2014, 4:07 pm

HarmonySeptember wrote:

I also like puns. There is one that I learned from my collage instructor when she said "Tail wagging the dog".

I think that this means don't worry about things that come in the future until it happens. Is this right?

I'm sure you meant college instructor... unless she happened to be a master at creating collages!

Actually, "tail wagging the dog" is an idiom, not a pun!

It means a tiny part is trying to control a whole. For example, if I'm a new employee who tries to boss around my co-workers, I'm a tail wagging the dog!

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13 May 2014, 5:36 pm

naturalplastic wrote:

JSBACHlover wrote:

ghoti wrote:

I get into puns. Moreso that i usually get a pun definition of what someone is saying then i have to think of the intended meaning of what they are trying to say.

One funny pun is your in your user name (which I believe is pronounced "Josh").

it's "FISH".

Its a reference to famous quip by George Bernard Shaw about how based upon how certain words are spelled in English you could spell the word "fish" as "ghoti".

Yes

gh as in rough
o as in women
ti as in action.

Can also refer to a silent word:

gh as in though
o as in people
t as in ballet
i as in business

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