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'."
That's not a pun.
Hehe . . . he? Does that count as a pun?
Sad. That is the saddest unfunny pun.
Quote from: Eve on June 17, 2011, 08:59:13 PM
Sad. That is the saddest unfunny pun.
THIS.
Someone was trolling or just uh didn't get it.
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on June 17, 2011, 08:55:17 PM
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.
Quote from: Jenne on June 17, 2011, 09:02:56 PM
Quote from: Eve on June 17, 2011, 08:59:13 PM
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.
Quote from: R.W.H.N. on June 17, 2011, 09:08:58 PM
Quote from: Jenne on June 17, 2011, 09:02:56 PM
Quote from: Eve on June 17, 2011, 08:59:13 PM
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...
Quote from: R.W.H.N. on June 17, 2011, 09:06:32 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on June 17, 2011, 08:55:17 PM
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.
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.
FIRE AT WILL!!!!
I'm not sure that his name is Will, but it doesn't really matter.
I think the Tiannamen thing was unintentional.
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?
Only the Egyptian guy in this year's revolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Tank_Man
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.
Thanks for the input everyone. I guess I was just in a politically hyper-sensitive mood when I read that. Maybe I'm a wee too cynical sometimes.