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alien2
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Why can’t you starve in the desert? 
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Re: Desert
« Reply #1 on: Feb 26th, 2009, 8:07am » |
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any pun intended?
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Re: Desert
« Reply #2 on: Feb 26th, 2009, 9:06am » |
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Affirmative.
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Re: Desert
« Reply #3 on: Feb 26th, 2009, 9:22am » |
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Anything you shouldn't eat until your done with your veggies?
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Re: Desert
« Reply #4 on: Feb 26th, 2009, 10:31am » |
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Not sure what you mean but it has to do with certain food.
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iono
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Re: Desert
« Reply #5 on: Feb 26th, 2009, 5:09pm » |
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Do these foods have a sugary taste?
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
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Re: Desert
« Reply #6 on: Feb 26th, 2009, 7:44pm » |
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Fair warning: this is a really bad pun. I've heard it before so I won't spoil the surprise, but Glinda might be obscure enough a hint to mention here.
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Re: Desert
« Reply #7 on: Feb 26th, 2009, 8:20pm » |
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As in The Wizard of Oz Glinda?
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Lots of opportunities are missed because they come dressed in overalls and look like work.
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Re: Desert
« Reply #8 on: Mar 2nd, 2009, 6:25am » |
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on Feb 26th, 2009, 5:09pm, iono wrote:| Do these foods have a sugary taste? |
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No.
on Feb 26th, 2009, 7:44pm, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wrote:| Fair warning: this is a really bad pun. |
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I heard the joke in some movie. It sounds pretty good to me.
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alien2
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Re: Desert
« Reply #10 on: Mar 2nd, 2009, 6:55am » |
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I am looking for an answer with pun. 
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Re: Desert
« Reply #11 on: Mar 2nd, 2009, 7:16am » |
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Well, near as I can tell most people are thinking it has to do with desserts, but you just said it wasn't something sweet, and desserts usually are.
Does it make a difference what sort of desert it is?
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alien2
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Re: Desert
« Reply #12 on: Mar 2nd, 2009, 8:57am » |
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on Mar 2nd, 2009, 7:16am, towr wrote:| Well, near as I can tell most people are thinking it has to do with desserts, but you just said it wasn't something sweet, and desserts usually are. |
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Not bad, but I had something else in mind, so no desserts.
on Mar 2nd, 2009, 7:16am, towr wrote:| Does it make a difference what sort of desert it is? |
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I don't know much about types of deserts, but I was thinking of a usual desert, whatever that means. 
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Re: Desert
« Reply #13 on: Mar 2nd, 2009, 9:05am » |
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A desert, whatever the type, is ... well ... desert. That means there is nobody there. And nobody, that includes you . So if you aren't there, you can't starve there.
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Re: Desert
« Reply #14 on: Mar 2nd, 2009, 10:39am » |
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Nope.
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Re: Desert
« Reply #15 on: Mar 2nd, 2009, 10:51am » |
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Before we get too far afield, let's pick a concrete example of a desert -- the Sahara, for instance, or the Gobi if you prefer -- and think about some of its attributes.
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edited for stupidity: apparently I can't English.
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Re: Desert
« Reply #16 on: Mar 2nd, 2009, 11:42am » |
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on Mar 2nd, 2009, 6:25am, Iceman wrote:| I heard the joke in some movie. |
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Judging by the sources of your past material I was pretty sure of that.
As to my earlier statement, the pun is not poorly constructed and it definitely "works." I was referring more to how often it would elicit a collective groan from the audience. But now that I think about it, would a groaner be a good pun? I guess "bad pun" could mean either one, or both.
My example of a "bad pun:"
Did the grape cry when it was stepped on?
No, but it let out a little wine.
That one is so bad it hurts.
on Mar 2nd, 2009, 10:51am, SMQ wrote:| edited for stupidity: apparently I can't English. |
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I must have changed this post five times, so don't worry, I can't English either.
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Azgard
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Re: Desert
« Reply #17 on: Mar 2nd, 2009, 3:04pm » |
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This is an excerpt from The Callahan Chronicals, a collection of short stories by Spider Robinson. Specifically from "Have You Heard The One...?"
People grade a pun by their reaction to it. The very best, of course, as Bernard Shaw said, is when one's audience holds its collective nose and flees screaming from one's vicinity. Immediate laughter or groan is a lesser approbation. And in between these two is the pause, followed only after five or ten stunned seconds by cheers and jeers.
I quite like this description, although I'm not sure how it would work in a forum setting...
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Re: Desert
« Reply #18 on: Mar 2nd, 2009, 8:57pm » |
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Re: Desert
« Reply #19 on: Mar 3rd, 2009, 3:00am » |
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on Mar 2nd, 2009, 10:51am, SMQ wrote:| ... let's pick a concrete example of a desert -- the Sahara, for instance, or the Gobi if you prefer -- and think about some of its attributes. |
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Er... is it some play of words with sand and sandwich?
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Re: Desert
« Reply #20 on: Mar 3rd, 2009, 7:50am » |
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on Mar 3rd, 2009, 3:00am, Grimbal wrote:
Er... is it some play of words with sand and sandwich?
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It is.
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iono
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Re: Desert
« Reply #21 on: Mar 3rd, 2009, 7:16pm » |
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Oh, I get it. Ouch.
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Re: Desert
« Reply #22 on: Nov 14th, 2012, 1:53pm » |
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You'll probably die of dehydration before starving to death.
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