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Bad Puns

  • 16-04-2010 08:48AM
    #1
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭


    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.


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  • #2
    Ticktactoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 765 ✭✭✭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!


  • #3
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Sketch. Teacher's here.


  • #4
    2ygb4cmqetsjhx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 564 ✭✭✭2ygb4cmqetsjhx


    I hate bad puns. They are just not punny.


  • #5
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    stovelid wrote: »
    Sketch. Teacher's here.

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


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  • #7
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #8
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I hope ya had more craic in secondary school than making bad puns?

    My nickname was Finbar Saunders back then.


  • #9
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    stovelid wrote: »
    My nickname was Finbar Saunders back then.
    Fnarr! Fnarr!


  • #10
    Sea Sharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭Sea Sharp


    That's what SHE said.

    That's what I call a sticky situation.

    (Hilarity)


  • #11
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭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?


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  • #12
    MaybeLogic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭MaybeLogic


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


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • #14
    MaybeLogic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭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?


  • #15
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,257 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    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.
    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.


  • #16
    Dont be at yourself
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,461 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #17
    MaybeLogic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭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"


  • #18
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,786 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Homophonic puns sound gay.


  • #19
    m@cc@
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭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


  • #20
    NothingMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭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 :D 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.


  • #21
    Minstrel27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭Minstrel27


    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.

    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.


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  • #22
    enda1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,165 ✭✭✭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.


  • #23
    MaybeLogic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭MaybeLogic


    Rabies wrote: »
    Yup.
    I agree.

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

    The pun is mightier than the mod.


  • #24
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #25
    MaybeLogic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭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.


  • #26
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Deleted User wrote: »
    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."


  • #27
    NothingMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭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
    >


  • #28
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #29
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,194 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #30
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭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


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  • #31
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    MaybeLogic wrote: »
    We're not all Mikoms.

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


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