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cg12345 Since: Jan, 2001
Sep 28th 2017 at 7:30:54 AM •••

Can someone have pity and explain the header quote? If there's a pun there it's going completely over my head.

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Gogoroth Since: Nov, 2009
Jun 7th 2018 at 2:00:23 PM •••

I think it is just a description of the trope, not an example. Someone should write one that is both, however

Gogoroth Since: Nov, 2009
Jun 7th 2018 at 1:59:41 PM •••

Does the Superman IV Cinema Snob review count? I don't see the pun anywhere.

silver2195 Since: Jan, 2001
Apr 25th 2010 at 10:39:12 AM •••

Silver2195: I suspect the lack of examples is due to the fact that this is kind of a Forgotten Trope. Note that the name comes from the Turkey City Lexicon. I think we could find plenty of examples by reading old Sci-Fi magazines.

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SomeSortOfTroper Since: Jan, 2001
Apr 25th 2010 at 12:32:29 PM •••

It still needs examples but when it has a page on Wikipedia (which we can steal examples from) I don't feel inclined to cut it.

I do also have one myself.

macroscopic Since: Jul, 2009
Apr 25th 2010 at 12:45:50 PM •••

I know Asimov wrote a few stories like this though I can't remember enough specifics to write examples.

Support stupid freshness, yo.
SomeSortOfTroper Since: Jan, 2001
Apr 25th 2010 at 1:02:05 PM •••

Added examples. There are more on wikipedia. I put it on Punny Stuff and Comedy Tropes. We can also put it into relevant works.

hrasdt Since: Dec, 1969
Dec 14th 2011 at 1:12:31 AM •••

There was an Asimov short story about two astronauts who, for some reason, were stuck out in space together for several years. One of them was an avid punner; the other, completely humourless. The second threatened to kill the first the next time a pun was made, and without his pastime of jokery, the second had to make do with other hobbies, including ammonia ice-carving; all very secretive, and far from the base. Near the end of their sentence, the punner brings the second outside to see his masterpiece: a magnificent statue of a bird, in a cage covered in gold leaf from the repair parts. Needless to say, after seeing ammonia bird in gilded cage, the joker was murdered.

Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of the story, but I'll find the magazine and update the page.

zonalicia Since: Jan, 2011
Jan 27th 2011 at 9:01:21 PM •••

Spider G. Robinson: (http://www.spiderrobinson.com/) Just about everything he ever wrote. Basically the Callahan series is just an excuse for these.. The omen pigeon... From the sub, Lime, to the Reed oculist, etc.

cntrational Since: Oct, 2009
Oct 9th 2010 at 4:40:04 PM •••

We don't need to have the entire Nate story here.

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