Pun Focus Group

[AFK]

Okay spags.  I need to gauge my reaction to a pun I just read by gauging your reaction.  The following pun was posted on punoftheday.com

It's in some lame section talking about how you should send your father a pun for Father's Day.  Which is a really stupid idea.  Anyway, read this pun and share with me your reaction:

"When a son said that his ambition was to drive an army tank his father said 'I won't stand in your way'."

[Doktor Howl]

That's not a pun.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Hehe . . . he? Does that count as a pun?

[Eve]

Sad. That is the saddest unfunny pun.

[Jenne]

Sad. That is the saddest unfunny pun.

THIS.

Someone was trolling or just uh didn't get it.

[AFK]

Hehe . . . he? Does that count as a pun?

It's an awful, implied visual pun.  Awful in execution but awful in how the funny is being made.  

With, in my interpretation, it's an obvious reference to Tienanmen Square to make the funny.  

I just wanted to gauge to see if everyone else made the same connection.  

[AFK]

Sad. That is the saddest unfunny pun.

THIS.

Someone was trolling or just uh didn't get it.

The thing is, from what I can tell, the site administrators put it up.  It wasn't a submitted pun. 

So I figure the only fair way to combat this is to send them EVERY pun I've ever written or posted.  I could write a nasty letter, but, I figure instead I'll just bury them with submissions. 

[Jenne]

Sad. That is the saddest unfunny pun.

THIS.

Someone was trolling or just uh didn't get it.

The thing is, from what I can tell, the site administrators put it up.  It wasn't a submitted pun. 

So I figure the only fair way to combat this is to send them EVERY pun I've ever written or posted.  I could write a nasty letter, but, I figure instead I'll just bury them with submissions. 

yeah, I'd say troll 'em right the fuck back...

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

Hehe . . . he? Does that count as a pun?

It's an awful, implied visual pun.  Awful in execution but awful in how the funny is being made.  

With, in my interpretation, it's an obvious reference to Tienanmen Square to make the funny.  

I just wanted to gauge to see if everyone else made the same connection.  

I made the same connection, but it still wasnt very funny. Maybe if you re-work it to include the Tienanmen Square reference itll work better.

[Mangrove]

1. Not a pun or especially funny.

2. I didn't make a link to Tianamen Sq. If the protagonists in the gag had been identified as Chinese, then that would've done it. I wouldn't have connected 'father/son' dialog (however lame) with that event.

3. Carpet bomb these unfunny idiots with every pun you have ever created. The admin clearly have too much time on their hands.

[AFK]

FIRE AT WILL!!!!

I'm not sure that his name is Will, but it doesn't really matter. 

[Placid Dingo]

I think the Tiannamen thing was unintentional.

[Elder Iptuous]

was the martyr's act of standing in front of a tank to stop it a meme that preexisted Tienanmen?
i don't know, but i'm thinking not.
has there been much to associate with that concept since then?

[Cain]

Only the Egyptian guy in this year's revolution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Tank_Man

[Triple Zero]

At first I thought there was no play-on-words in it, so it wasn't a pun. But the play is in the literal/figurative interpretation of "stand in your way", so technically it is a pun.

Like Mang and Dingo, I don't make a connection to Tienanmen Square either. The link's too weak IMO.

It's not as good a pun that it can stand on its own like that, it's really lame as a joke. Though I think if "I want to drive an army tank" came up in a conversation, it would be a pretty quick-witted groan-worthy reply.