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I need you to help me tie my Schu, Bert.

Love puns and word play! They never fail to amuse!

He'd better, as he left Indiana Wesleyan University, where he taught voice and piano, played bassoon in the university orchestra, and was university organist, to teach class piano in a community college located between Dallas/Ft. Worth and Houston.

Yeah same here. I love puns and wordplay. I tend to use my literal thinking as a means for humor to make those silly NTs laugh. My boss and I could go on for hours like this (he's not an Aspie, but he can conjure up some puns and wordplay at the drop of a hat).

Good example: my boss asked me about a movie and I couldn't quite think of the name. So I asked him for a paper and told him to watch how my thought process was going. I started circling my pencil over the paper without touching it and he asked me what I was doing, so I told him "drawing a blank".

Sometimes it gets a lot of rolled eyes (like when I tell people placing cheese on their burger to stop being so cheesy), but sometimes I get chuckles out of people (like when I asked my fiancee if the wall was in another dimension because she said it was a month behind, referring to the calender).

I've always been fascinated by them, and never understood why some people say they are a low form of humor. How can a clever play on words be low-level humor?

Me either but to be honest, the success I've had with them tends to vary depending on how 'quick witted' I am with it. If I just walk up to people with an ear of corn and say "stop being so corny" they tend to roll their eyes but if someone says something like "let's hit the road" and I reply "can I drive on it instead?" they tend to laugh about it.

I have always loved wordplay, and particularly puns. I think I tend to be decent at coming up with them quite fast following a theme. A couple of good tree puns for instance, would surely spruce up this topic a bit. But then I'm still new here and maybe I should just leave the matter alone, before someone barks about it lol. I could probably provide a few good ones related to motor vehicles, but them I'm a bit tired of those myself. They can get wheelie annoying.

Sure many people may find puns and related things annoying, but I never could see why. I think it's great for quite thinking skills and also perfectly amusing. Many people of course tend to roll there eyes or look at me like I have two heads and they are confused by what I actually meant to say and why, but I actually know a couple of fellow pun-ers too. Hahaha, we just make up new ones until we run out.

Last edited by DashboardLogic on 27 May 2014, 10:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.

lol!

Yew serious? Branching out into new puns is oakey.

If you get stumped, we woodn't chop you down fir that.

Next time you log in, leaf a message, let us know what sap.

liking puns and other word plays like rythm and phonetics is common in autistics!
I personally couldn't understand 1/3 of the puns in this thread, but okay...

I guess some people just can't take the punishment.

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Not Tiger Woods!

Good one Mezzanotte!

I think puns are so much fun because the English language is so goofy. Only in english do you:

a) Drive your car ON a parkway

and

b) Park you car IN your driveway

(You'd think you'd park your car on a parkway and drive your car on a driveway, but I digress)

It looks like mezzanotte finally "doved" into a new avatar. that good because his other one a real violent violation.

That is an "obamanation" to are president.