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Principia Discordia => Apple Talk => Topic started by: Cain on September 25, 2009, 08:10:43 PM

Title: RWHN, your punning is a sign of mental illness
Post by: Cain on September 25, 2009, 08:10:43 PM
True story

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foerster%27s_syndrome

QuoteFoerster's syndrome is the name used by Arthur Koestler in his account of the compulsive punning first described by the German neurosurgeon Otfrid Foerster.

In 1929 Foerster was operating on a patient suffering from a tumor in the third ventricle – a small cavity deep down in the phylogenetically ancient regions of the midbrain, adjacent to structures intimately concerned with the arousal of emotions. When the surgeon began to manipulate the tumor, affecting those sensitive structures, the (conscious) patient burst into a manic flight of puns.
Title: Re: RWHN, your punning is a sign of mental illness
Post by: AFK on September 25, 2009, 08:12:22 PM
Hope Harvard Pilgrim doesn't find out.  That definitely was a pre-existing condition before I was employed here. 
Title: Re: RWHN, your punning is a sign of mental illness
Post by: AFK on September 25, 2009, 08:17:20 PM
On the bright side, punning obviously isn't grounds for divorce, not yet anyway....

Title: Re: RWHN, your punning is a sign of mental illness
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on September 25, 2009, 08:24:50 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 25, 2009, 08:17:20 PM
On the bright side, punning obviously isn't grounds for divorce, not yet anyway....



Only when you laugh til you split.
Title: Re: RWHN, your punning is a sign of mental illness
Post by: Richter on September 25, 2009, 08:32:29 PM
Uncontrolled tangents into alliteration of string of homonyms has been associated with some psychotic conditions, but it's usually not punning related. 

If there IS such a condition, RWHN could sell himself as patient 0 and make a fortune writing books :p
Title: Re: RWHN, your punning is a sign of mental illness
Post by: Payne on September 25, 2009, 08:34:00 PM
Quote from: Richter on September 25, 2009, 08:32:29 PM
Uncontrolled tangents into alliteration of string of homonyms has been associated with some psychotic conditions, but it's usually not punning related. 

If there IS such a condition, RWHN could sell himself as patient 000 and make a fortune writing books :p

Fixt.

They're both as bad as the other.
Title: Re: RWHN, your punning is a sign of mental illness
Post by: Shibboleet The Annihilator on September 25, 2009, 08:39:36 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 25, 2009, 08:24:50 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 25, 2009, 08:17:20 PM
On the bright side, punning obviously isn't grounds for divorce, not yet anyway....



Only when you laugh til you split.

HOLY FUCKBALLS! IT'S CONTAGIOUS!
Title: Re: RWHN, your punning is a sign of mental illness
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on September 25, 2009, 08:40:17 PM
Quote from: Slanket the Destroyer on September 25, 2009, 08:39:36 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 25, 2009, 08:24:50 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 25, 2009, 08:17:20 PM
On the bright side, punning obviously isn't grounds for divorce, not yet anyway....



Only when you laugh til you split.

HOLY FUCKBALLS! IT'S CONTAGIOUS!

I don't know what got into me.
Title: Re: RWHN, your punning is a sign of mental illness
Post by: AFK on September 25, 2009, 08:44:55 PM
Quote from: Payne on September 25, 2009, 08:34:00 PM
Quote from: Richter on September 25, 2009, 08:32:29 PM
Uncontrolled tangents into alliteration of string of homonyms has been associated with some psychotic conditions, but it's usually not punning related. 

If there IS such a condition, RWHN could sell himself as patient 000 and make a fortune writing books :p

Fixt.

They're both as bad as the other.

In my circle of friends in college it was a regular thing.  You know those scenes you see where a bunch of guys are on the corner trading rhymes or rapping?  Yeah, it was kind of like that. 
Title: Re: RWHN, your punning is a sign of mental illness
Post by: AFK on September 25, 2009, 08:48:49 PM
Quote from: Slanket the Destroyer on September 25, 2009, 08:39:36 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 25, 2009, 08:24:50 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 25, 2009, 08:17:20 PM
On the bright side, punning obviously isn't grounds for divorce, not yet anyway....



Only when you laugh til you split.

HOLY FUCKBALLS! IT'S CONTAGIOUS!

RWH1N1 strikes again. 
Title: Re: RWHN, your punning is a sign of mental illness
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on September 25, 2009, 08:59:05 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 25, 2009, 08:48:49 PM
Quote from: Slanket the Destroyer on September 25, 2009, 08:39:36 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 25, 2009, 08:24:50 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 25, 2009, 08:17:20 PM
On the bright side, punning obviously isn't grounds for divorce, not yet anyway....



Only when you laugh til you split.

HOLY FUCKBALLS! IT'S CONTAGIOUS!

RWH1N1 strikes again. 

You will pay.
Title: Re: RWHN, your punning is a sign of mental illness
Post by: fomenter on September 25, 2009, 09:01:34 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 25, 2009, 08:59:05 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 25, 2009, 08:48:49 PM
Quote from: Slanket the Destroyer on September 25, 2009, 08:39:36 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 25, 2009, 08:24:50 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 25, 2009, 08:17:20 PM
On the bright side, punning obviously isn't grounds for divorce, not yet anyway....



Only when you laugh til you split.

HOLY FUCKBALLS! IT'S CONTAGIOUS!

RWH1N1 strikes again. 

You will pay.
:lulz:
Title: Re: RWHN, your punning is a sign of mental illness
Post by: AFK on September 25, 2009, 09:07:28 PM
OFUK!  Better get my snowblower fixed ASAP. 
Title: Re: RWHN, your punning is a sign of mental illness
Post by: Jenne on September 26, 2009, 06:00:43 AM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 25, 2009, 08:48:49 PM
Quote from: Slanket the Destroyer on September 25, 2009, 08:39:36 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 25, 2009, 08:24:50 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 25, 2009, 08:17:20 PM
On the bright side, punning obviously isn't grounds for divorce, not yet anyway....



Only when you laugh til you split.

HOLY FUCKBALLS! IT'S CONTAGIOUS!

RWH1N1 strikes again. 


:lol:  PRICELESS!