Bad Puns

They're going to be the death of After Hours.. Worse than 'yore ma' ever was.
I read a thread here yesterday and the first 3 pages were puns.. Once you've seen one, you've seen them all.

Ticktactoe

Deleted User wrote: »

They're going to be the death of After Hours.. Worse than 'yore ma' ever was.
I read a thread here yesterday and the first 3 pages were puns.. Once you've seen one, you've seen them all.

Link!

stovelid

Sketch. Teacher's here.

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I hate bad puns. They are just not punny.

Biggins

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to."
- J.R.R. Tolkien, "Three Is Company," The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

stovelid

stovelid wrote: »

Sketch. Teacher's here.

I hope ya had more craic in secondary school than making bad puns?

TheZohanS

Deleted User wrote: »

They're going to be the death of After Hours.. Worse than 'yore ma' ever was.
I read a thread here yesterday and the first 3 pages were puns.. Once you've seen one, you've seen them all.

How about you stick up an aul poll to see if people like them?

stovelid

Deleted User wrote: »

I hope ya had more craic in secondary school than making bad puns?

My nickname was Finbar Saunders back then.

El Weirdo

stovelid wrote: »

My nickname was Finbar Saunders back then.

Fnarr! Fnarr!

Sea Sharp

That's what SHE said.

That's what I call a sticky situation.

(Hilarity)

pickarooney

I hate when you spend a few minutes trying to understand the pun in an AH post only to realise there isn't one.

Where's the pun in that?

MaybeLogic

We're just having a bit of pun, OP.

TheZohan

TheZohan wrote: »

How about you stick up an aul poll to see if people like them?

On the mobile unfortunately.. If a mod you like to, fire ahead.

MaybeLogic

You're opening a real can of puns here.
Shakespeare used an estimated 3000 puns throughout his plays.
If it's good enough for the Bard, surely it's good enough for AH?

Rabies

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They're going to be the death of After Hours.. Worse than 'yore ma' ever was.
I read a thread here yesterday and the first 3 pages were puns.. Once you've seen one, you've seen them all.

Yup.
I agree.

Unless its something serious then people throw puns in for 'thanks'.

Wouldn't mind if the Thanks function was removed from AH. Serves no major purpose here.

Dont be at yourself

It can be punishing reading through some of these threads alright.

Still, you know what they say... A good pun is its own re-word.

MaybeLogic

Seriously, how the feck are yiz going to police puns?

Maybe Logic, Banned for making a pun.

Maybelogic to feedback; "I just got banned for making a homographic pun in AH. I think the mods are being a bit harsh because they normally only ban people for making homophonic or heteronymic puns"

Hagar

Homophonic puns sound gay.

m@cc@

Deleted User wrote: »

They're going to be the death of After Hours.. Worse than 'yore ma' ever was.
I read a thread here yesterday and the first 3 pages were puns.. Once you've seen one, you've seen them all.

From yesterday's sheep thread:

Deleted User wrote: »

Am I the only one that's terrible at thinking up puns?

*finds OP's reason for hating puns*


/thread

NothingMan

If you're talking about the pun-tastic electricution thread, I thought it was excellent. 3 pages of pure pun-mania and I loved it all.

Good puns are a trademark of AH and it would be a shame to try and change that. As AH is the pub of boards bad puns and tasteless, too soon jokes are part of any good pub session and to change it would be to change after hours.

It says in the charter that if there is a more appropriate forum for your thread please post it there. Well I think AH isn't limited by subject but how you want to discuss that subject, mainly in a light hearted, pub type way. If you take that out of AH then there would no longer be a need for AH, and nobody wants that.

I like the thanks function, it seperates the good puns from the bad ones and severely reduces the amount of +1's or single posts you'll see in threads and I wouldn't like to slog through 10 extra pages of unnecessary posts.

Well that's my pundementalist ideology anyway.

Minstrel27

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They're going to be the death of After Hours.. Worse than 'yore ma' ever was.
I read a thread here yesterday and the first 3 pages were puns.. Once you've seen one, you've seen them all.

I hate puns.

Rabies wrote: »

Wouldn't mind if the Thanks function was removed from AH. Serves no major purpose here.

It would certainly help remove a lot of the rubbish that is posted here. Thanks whores be gone.

enda1

OP I completely agree.

Puns are terrible and just a replacement of the 'yore ma' shite.

The fad will pass hopefully, and I think the tide is turning.

MaybeLogic

Rabies wrote: »

Yup.
I agree.

Unless its something serious then people throw puns in for 'thanks'.

The pun is mightier than the mod.

TheZohanS

NothingMan wrote: »

Good puns are a trademark of AH and it would be a shame to try and change that.

Good puns aren't the problem, it's the really really ****e puns that do everyones head in...I think.

MaybeLogic

TheZohan wrote: »

Good puns aren't the problem, it's the really really ****e puns that do everyones head in...I think.

But sure that's AH in general. There's a few nuggets buried in loads of crap. Not just puns, but in serious debates,regular jokes, first replies, comebacks... whatever.
We're not professional comedians or writers. We can't expect to hit comedy gold everytime.
For every 4 or 5 crap posts I make, say, I hit on one good one. That's just the nature of the beast.
We're not all Mikoms.

AnonoBoy

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Once you've seen one, you've seen them all.

A racist colleague of mine feels the same about the Chinese.

"Once you've seen Wan," he says, "You've seen them all."

NothingMan

AnonoBoy wrote: »

A racist colleague of mine feels the same about the Chinese.

"Once you've seen Wan," he says, "You've seen them all."

The racist Asian thread is that a way

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pickarooney

AnonoBoy wrote: »

A racist colleague of mine feels the same about the Chinese.

"Once you've seen Wan," he says, "You've seen them all."

It works better with Puerto Ricans.

But then you'd have to find a Puerto Rican work... of art and admire it.

IvySlayer

MaybeLogic wrote: »

Maybe Logic, Banned for making a pun.

Maybelogic to feedback; "I just got banned for making a homographic pun in AH. I think the mods are being a bit harsh because they normally only ban people for making homophonic or heteronymic puns"

Appropiate pun-ishment bwhahahaha.

orourkeda

enda1 wrote: »

OP I completely agree.

Puns are terrible and just a replacement of the 'yore ma' shite.

The fad will pass hopefully, and I think the tide is turning.

No. YOUR MA

mikom

MaybeLogic wrote: »

We're not all Mikoms.

And a tip of the cap to you, Miss Corningstone.

m@cc@

m@cc@ wrote: »

From yesterday's sheep thread:



*finds OP's reason for hating puns*


/thread

That's the only post in this thread that actually made me laugh..

The rest of the 'funny replies' where absolute muck.

bazmaiden

Deleted User wrote: »

That's the only post in this thread that actually made me laugh..

The rest of the 'funny replies' where absolute muck.

where they?

Hagar

Deleted User wrote: »

That's the only post in this thread that actually made me laugh..

The rest of the 'funny replies' where absolute muck.

Sorry to have disappointed you. I'll demand a jolly good thrashing for us all from the next passing admin.

--Kaiser--

As far as I'm concerned, the punny replies are the only thing on After Hours worth reading.

Standard Toaster

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Hagar

Hagar wrote: »

Sorry to have disappointed you. I'll demand a jolly good thrashing for us all from the next passing admin.

I was just proving my opening point in the same thread.

phasers

I don't think puns are funny at all, ever.

However, I don't think you can ban people from punning, it's not as clear cut as Yore Ma.


so just try and ignore it.

stovelid

NekkidBibleMan wrote: »

It can be punishing reading through some of these threads alright.

Who's making you?



/joke

Well i'd never suggest bannings, It just takes away from the humor in a thread if you're sifting through bad puns all the time.. Which most are.

How many people have said 'punny' for 'funny' in this thread.. Post count whores or what.

stovelid

stovelid wrote: »

Who's making you?



/joke

Hardly the point.

stovelid

Deleted User wrote: »

Well i'd never suggest bannings.

Well, thanks. That's a relief.

Deleted User wrote: »

How many people have said 'punny' for 'funny' in this thread.. Post count whores or what.

On the question of yore ma. Not fat, I mean I didn't personally find it funny, but it was infinitely preferable (or more easily ignored) to listening to self-appointed police types trying to shape the forum to suit their own tastes.

speedboatchase

Some stories are crying out for puns (those criminals who dressed up as sheep) and some aren't - in general I like them here though. People saying "punny" is just desperation though

Fart

This thread is funny, considering you couldn't pun yourself out of a wet paper pun.

stovelid

stovelid wrote: »

Well, thanks. That's a relief.



On the question of yore ma. Not fat, I mean I didn't personally find it funny, but it was infinitely preferable (or more easily ignored) to listening to self-appointed police types trying to shape the forum to suit their own tastes.

My own tastes? There's def more people than me who appreciate actual humor.

Dudess

So AH should be based on YOUR tastes? And yeah, obviously there are plenty who along with you dislike puns, but there are plenty who like them. It would hardly be fair if one group gets to have the upper hand - so here's what to do: ignore the bits of AH you dislike.

stovelid wrote: »

On the question of yore ma.... I mean I didn't personally find it funny

Liar :pac:

Seriously though OP, why on earth are you trying to change something silly on a silly forum? And why do you care?

stovelid

Deleted User wrote: »

My own tastes? There's def more people than me who appreciate actual humor.

The key word is highlighted.

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

Stop reading pun threads and let people enjoy themselves as they see fit.

Hagar

Humour is very subjective, what's perceived as funny varies greatly from person to person. Otherwise there would only be one comedian telling the same joke and we would all be screaming with laughter while rolling on the floor in a sea of our own urine.

phasers

Whenever I read a pun I always hear "Ba dum TISH" after it and sarcastic applause

Bluefox21

phasers wrote: »

Whenever I read a pun I always hear "Ba dum TISH" after it and sarcastic applause

with your eardrums?

Hagar

phasers wrote: »

Whenever I read a pun I always hear "Ba dum TISH" after it and sarcastic applause

I like the really subtle ones that go over the head on first reading.