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Jul 22nd 2023 at 3:54:41 PM •••

Index has been moved to Just for Fun and has been renamed to JustForFun.Punny Trope Names. TRS thread

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kkj12345 General Since: May, 2021

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May 13th 2022 at 5:05:17 AM •••

Some of these I can understand, others not so much, so please, make tropes easier to understand. In fact, I don't know why you like puns so much.

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Mar 22nd 2021 at 6:46:54 AM •••

Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Rename due to misuse., started by DragonQuestZ on Oct 9th 2011 at 8:53:09 PM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)

Mar 20th 2021 at 11:40:42 AM •••

Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Misused, started by SenshiSun on Jul 31st 2012 at 12:10:26 AM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)

Mar 20th 2021 at 8:48:26 AM •••

Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Misused, started by ShinyCottonCandy on May 17th 2019 at 6:20:25 PM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

RobinZimm Since: Jan, 2001

Jun 24th 2012 at 9:21:22 PM •••

Upon discovering that Miles Black, the famous phrenologist from Yorkshire was going to take up yodeling to lonely goats in Bali, James White decided to balance four planks of wood on a beer keg and call it an abstract work of art in the style of a famous fourteenth-century architect, just going to prove that people will read any old garbage if they think there will be a good pun at the end of it.

...is there actually a pun there, or is it a subversion?

secondtime Since: Jul, 2009

Jun 30th 2011 at 10:51:34 AM •••

In the article, "wit" is referred to as "the highest form of humor." Some notable experts, including Mark Twain and I think this Arthur Schopenhauer guy, would actually place "wit"- which WOULD include puns and such- as seperate from humo(u)r altogether. Under this principle, all of funny can be separated into three divisions of equal stature: the American humor, the British comedy, and the French wit (I personally think that the accepted nationalities of comedy and wit could be interchangeable; however, one must take into consideration that a subtle aura of wit seems to surround French culture continuously, as one can tell by the insane structure of one of their more popular varieties of street slang, which is improvised and anagram-based.) I believe that this should be corrected or at least asterisked in the article. Thoughts?

DokEnkephalin Since: Jan, 2001

Mar 13th 2010 at 7:04:50 PM •••

Dok Enkephalin: If this index were cut down to titles that actually were puns, it'd still be overdosed. Isn't that enough?

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