There’s nothing wrong with a good pun. The reason puns are thought of as lowly, or cheap, is because truly good puns are very difficult and very rare. They are not a pointless scrambling of words and letters, and they should not be so obvious–or so reaching—as to elicit nothing but groans and rolling eyes. In fact, puns are so difficult, an entire sub-genre of humor has grown up around them: jokes about how bad puns are. (See Pearls before Swine.) I’ve done maybe two or three good puns in my entire career. I count the above as one of them.
Clear as Mud
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281 responses to “Clear as Mud”
Mostly brown, no? And big. Female. Peace, emb
Another good example from German, TruckerRon is their WWII version of the bazooka. It was developed after the Wehrmacht captured some bazookas in North Africa, did a little experimenting and found that they liked what they saw. Their version used a black powder charge in a single-shot tube (unlike the bazooka, which used a rocket and could easily be reloaded). They called their new weapon a “panzerfaust,” meaning either “armor fist” or “tank fist, connecting the two parts of the name into one simple word.
Ever notice how jealous some people become when you think of a pun first?
They try to cover it with eye rolling and so on, but the punster knows the truth.
sideburns, so in this modern era, our Army has gone to a version of the old German weapon. Single-shot and disposable, like so much of our modern tech. But I guess it beats having a loader carrying multiple rounds instead of his own weapon. One man I worked with was a Marine who served in the Korean War. He was a BAR gunner in his squad and frequently mentioned the little guy who was assigned to carry his extra ammo. From what he said, his partner had a lot of trouble in the mountains trying to manage that load.
Jerry – Oh yeah, kind of like my fear of hurdles – I got over them. 🙂
“vanity license plate WATTGAS.” Sounds ~ that may have been an all electric Prius. There are 4 models: 1. Standard hybrid [mine] = hatchback that seats 5, w/ more headroom than most sedans [Priuses are short but not compacts]. 2. A bigger model w/ more storage space and perhaps legroom [local UMC members that own one are both quite tall]. 3. All electric model. 4. Mini-Prius, the only one Consumer Reports did not recommend. Peace, emb
emb, or that may just have been a play on how the hybrid works. Turning gas into watts that the car then runs on. By the way, have any of you considered that the original hybrid vehicles were the diesel-electric locomotives? They use diesel engines instead of gas, but the principle is the same. Wonder why nobody’s worked out a diesel hybrid car, or truck.
A man’s home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.
Dijon vu – the same mustard as before.
VW has a diesel car that does not smell, the ads say. If you go to the Decorah eagle cam,
http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles
you first have to watch an ad [that pays for the upkeep, I guess]. Sometimes there’s just an ad, sometimes you click on a choice of 2. Three stereotypical elderly Jewish ladies, though seems like I saw some of them at an Upper West Side fish deli [no, that was decades ago; must be their daughters]. Anyway, there are 6 or so VW old lady ads, all funny. Takes me back. I don’t know why VW
[beats me what happened] could not combine their odor-free diesel with a hybrid battery system. emb
Have fun reading these: http://www.punoftheday.com/cgi-bin/disppuns.pl?ord=F
Maybe it’s time to bring back steam motivated cars.*
*not legal in California
My take on the vanity plate WATTGAS is, at least a double meaning, maybe triple: 1. Watts instead of gasoline; 2. A question, What gas? meaning, don’t need gasoline; 3. The meanings you guys have tossed around. I thought it was awfully clever and funny.
Good morning Villagers….
Granny Carol, Denise and Miss Charlotte……what Andrew said about Ian being close to losing his job was fabricated…Ian worked with The Boss all day at the other hen house. The Boss commended Ian on his reaction. Andrew did not come to work. Drama.. I hate. Ian said he’d get even with Andrew…I told him he wouldn’t. Even The Boss said Ian was a better man for not swinging back. I told Ian if Andrew apologizes (which I doubt if he does) to accept that apology, but then add that they can no longer be “brothers’ and life will go on. Ian liked that.
What my son lacks in some areas, he excels in others….like computers.
I don’t think we’ll be seeing little Kyler anymore….now that depresses me. And Brooklynne Rose has outgrown me…she has Rachael now, and I am glad for that….but I do miss her. She acts so indifferent to me now…but, I have good Sunday morning memories of making griddle cakes with her.
Yes, Granny Carol, the poultry business is on high bio-security right now. We’ve been lucky that it has not affected anyone in our area….and this area is populated with turkey and layer houses
And Miss Charlotte…so good to see you getting out, driving, shopping again. Remember….baby steps, take baby steps. Soon you will be yourself again. I’m so happy for you.
I love puns…..so Mark, I will get back to those later…after work maybe. Thanks for the link
Jerry, glad you enjoy ‘Breaking Cat News’…..it is so cute….it’s my second on my list to read, right after A&J, then ‘Peanuts’, then ‘BC’, then ‘Dogs of C-Kennel”.
GR 🙁 please let us know if you are ok….we’re worried. Is your mother doing ok???
ya’ll have a blessed day
today’s grin:
http://cheezburger.com/8396902912
…got the swiffer, now all I need is to attach one of my cats :)]
http://cheezburger.com/8481047040/swiffers-newest-cleaning-attachment-funny-cat-gifs
Old Bear…since you drew my attention to this strip, you’ve got to check out today’s. But scroll down to the comments for the ‘real attention’ getter 🙂 Just how did that commentor do that?
http://www.gocomics.com/savage-chickens
TIP BlogSpot = comic again. Have to look painting up. Today’s LuAnn is clever. Peace, emb
Forgot URL. Peace.
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
Is that a real book Janis is taking to bed? Our library had its used book sale last weekend. Paperbacks were fifty cents and hardbacks a dollar. Most people bought more than they could carry in a bag or a box. I bought mostly hardbacks and spent only $13. I haven’t read half of what I bought last time. They do it twice a year.
Didn’t you think Charlotte had a good pun…..”she got a charge out of it”
Wattgas!
Debbe,
The dancing anaconda was a cut-and-paste job into individual frames, then combining into a file that displays in sequence. It’s called an animated GIF (graphics interchange format). There are programs that make it easy to combine. The biggest challenge is to get the images overlaid exactly so the animation is smooth.
Sorry that the kids are losing interest. They out-grow us…but someday they will be interested again.
I don’t remember what day it was, but Ghost said that he’d be absent for a while. Hopefully the absence is nothing serious. I’m sure he’ll be back once time allows.
EMB, regarding the TIP, I’m pretty sure that (in general) the shoe is on the other foot. There is a beautiful sunrise in progress at Old Faithful.
PS– No one was there to watch the fairly short eruption from OF at 8:12 CDT.
It looks to me that Janis has the book Arlo hid the favorite polaroid of Janis.
I can deal with the break-dancing anaconda, but the one that gets me is the guy who had a water moccasin in a pillowcase on his bed. This guy is definitely a runner-up for the Darwin Award.
http://tbo.com/news/breaking-news/cottonmouth-bites-wimauma-man-on-lip-20150421/