Puns are pretty much “the formula” for making jokes. Though they can get old, they’re always recognizable as jokes, which suggests that a theory based on “multiple meaning/decoding/framing” is probably on track. Hm, I wonder who suggested such a theory… ;-)
Sometimes puns are funny, and sometimes they’re just punishing. And a lot of people really, really hate puns.
Go crawl in a hole and die. :-)
My response: http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/954.html
I prefer this one.
Well, what do you expect from a Forum poster? ;)
And this one is a worse pun.
Puns are pretty much “the formula” for making jokes. Though they can get old, they’re always recognizable as jokes, which suggests that a theory based on “multiple meaning/decoding/framing” is probably on track. Hm, I wonder who suggested such a theory… ;-)
You really think puns are “the formula” for making jokes? You think hunter-gatherers were making puns before they were telling funny stories?
I mean “the formula” (like I said) in the sense that it’s guaranteed to produce a recognizable (though not good) joke, not that all jokes are puns.