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Group feedback on the issue of drop n puns, please.
Do you suffer from parthenophobia by any chance?
Perpetrators should definitely be punished.
Nope, never had much fear of the Parthenon. I guess if I was standing on the top unsecured it might be a bit scary...
D.M. Andrews (GoodReads Author) wrote: "Nope, never had much fear of the Parthenon. I guess if I was standing on the top unsecured it might be a bit scary..."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGK6q1...
Jim Finn, the noted biologist, was stumped. He'd spent months studying the little green frogs in the Keefo swamp. The population, despite all efforts at predator control, was declining at an alarming rate.Finally, Finn went to the chemistry department at his college to see if anyone there might be able to help. Tom Trom looked into the problem and came up with a solution. The little frogs had succumbed to a chemical change in the swamp water and simply couldn't stay coupled long enough to reproduce. Trom brewed up a new adhesive, made from a dash of this, a zoss of that and, most critically, one part sodium.
"You mean?" Jim said when told.
"Yes," said Tom, "They needed mono-sodium glue to mate."
You're a groan-up now. Deal with it.
There was a guy in bio-ethics I once knew, he was working in California. He'd got involved in some sort of immortality work, and he was investigating a scientist who was working on porpoises. Now that was what got them watching him as not many people do work on porpoises.Anyway my mate discovered that this scientist was using some sort of extract he got from seagulls, and he was feeding it to porpoises to make them live forever.
Now then, obviously they hadn't lived for ever, as forever hasn't finished yet, but the work was showing real promise and so the bio-ethics team watched him like a hawk.
Anyway one day the scientist had been down to the beach for more seagulls. He'd driven back, got to the lab to make the extract that would give his porpoises eternal life. Now the bio-ethics team had decided to find an excuse to arrest him then they could investigate his work really closely. So they had a lion sleep across the door of the lab.
As the scientist stepped over the lion, a carrier bag of seagulls in each hand, they arrested him. The charge?
Transporting gulls across the staid lion for immortal porpoises
Jim, that was truly egregious! ;)Dropping buns? Are we back with Charlotte and the Troll?
I won't bother you with my story, but here's the punchline:"Huts! O railway huts! Cavalry take them and they cover them in chocolate!"
D.M. Andrews (GoodReads Author) wrote: "Jim, that was truly egregious! ;) "Absolutely!
Frank Muir and Denis Norden used to be on the wireless programme My Word (before wireless became radio)In each show they used to finish by explaining the origin of a well known phase, which was always an amusing story with an egregious pun as the punch line. They did compile them into a book
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Utterly-Ultim...
But some still linger in the darker recesses of my mine.
"Nelly is the winner of our discount tint."
;)I used to have a Frank Muir funbook when I was a child... (and I loved Call My Bluff)
HAHAHA ! I'm there wondering why when I clicked on new posts it got back to post number one, why it was written by Darren and not Patti, and I totally had that WTF? moment lol !
Haha! Victim Number One of my thread pun! ;)
I got caught out too, but was too ashamed to admit it...
*hangs head*
;0)
*hangs head*
;0)
The Dark Lord strikes again...
John decided life would be much easier if he had a clone. So he had one made and sent him to work in his place while he stayed home and relaxed.Soon this backfired when the clone came home and said he'd been fired for making sexual comments to the women in the office.
John decided he had to get rid of his clone before things got any worse. He took his clone to the top of a tall building and pushed him off. Unfortunately, someone saw John and called the cops on him.
He was duly arrested and convicted for making an obscene clone fall.
I bet that was no small feet ;)
Oh I remember that program from when I was a kid. I used to listen with my mum. My favourite finishing line was 'Never take a knee thing for Gran, Ted.'
Mine means 'Never take anything for granted.' Read them both out loud.
Oh well I got yours GL, I meant all the story ones
I got them all except the 'railway huts' one.
I understand that porpoises is meant to be purposes but I don't get the staid lion bit
Ah! I get it now. Sometimes these things just don't come across in different accents.
D.M. Andrews (GoodReads Author) wrote: "http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/..."Ok! I grew up without a tv so missed out on a lot of the ads.
Gingerlily (or Cyberlily..) wrote: "I got them all except the 'railway huts' one."Huts! O railway huts! Cavalry take them and they cover them in chocolate!"
The was an advertising slogan "Nuts, whole hazel nuts, cabury's takes them and they cover them in chocolate"
They used to show it at the cinema quite a bit...
D.M. Andrews (GoodReads Author) wrote: "Saints preserve us!"Brilliant :))
Lol I've only realised now the subtle change in the title lol ! D'OH !
Punderful a punathon, plenty to punder here
You look punderful tonight, you pun loving cwiminal you!
An unexpected pun, especially lame ones, dropped into a conversation can result in severe groans from thread viewers, right through to spillage of drink, or, in some rare cases where the pun has some wit and humour behind it, possible mild choking on food.
Please, both readers and authors, your views are of interest to us, and suggestions as how to deal with this forum menace are welcomed - before something serious happens...