I sat down one day and wrote some great puns and submitted them to this site. I just checked how many got published. Really disappointed, because it seems that no pun in ten did...<p>(sorry)
Many years ago, in another life, I knew this guy who worked in TV. He still works professionally so lets call him Orwell. One of Or’s first jobs was working on the special makeup for Star Trek : The Next Generation and boy did he have some stories. I always assumed that you just slap on a rubber mask and maybe a bit of glue and start the cameras running but apparently it is a lot more complex.<p>Depending on the lighting and any requirements for special effects (done optically back then), there were a lot of calculations to do in order to make the make up look consistent between shots. Simple things like the choice of foundation were very important.<p>Orwell used to tell me that he dreaded outdoor shoots the most. He would be feverishly working away with a light-meter and his formula when the producer would arrive on the location demanding to know why dozens of very expensive cast and crew were just standing around. The answer was always then same, they were waiting ‘ere Or’s tabulating Data’s base complexion.
The depth and amount of tenuous word association is amazing. I went in expecting another dad joke list. I came out with something like a thematic/"sounds like" thesaurus. I feel so much potential here for brainstorming ideas for creative writing (while not actually using any of the puns).
Has anyone made a keyboard app that suggests or/and auto-corrects messages to incorporate puns?<p>Or it'd be neat to have an app that, before sending a text message, would suggest pun-nier versions.
As a non-native English speaker, I'm always specially proud when I come up with a pun.<p>I wonder how prevalent puns are in other languages, it seems they are extremely prevalent in English or at least in British English but hardly at all in Spanish.<p>I've seen/heard some in German but not sure how prevalent.
The website says it's having technical difficulties. In hindsight this is probably true in the literal sense, but because of the inherent cruelty of puns, I've been puzzling over it for a few minutes trying to figure out if it's just an elaborate pun I don't get yet.
I love that 'Pirate Puns' is listed under the 'Jobs' section. I never see 'Pirate' in the options when applying for a mortgage or car insurance but I think that perhaps it should be.
For anyone in the NYC area, check out Punderdome tomorrow night! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/punderdome" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/punderdome</a><p>(Disclaimer: I'm a puntenstant)
Their taxonomy reminds me of the one from Borges's "Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge": <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevolent_Knowledge" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevole...</a>
My favourite pun is due to it being English/Spanish bilingual, but for a different part of the word.<p>"Do cats go to heaven?"<p>English A: No, they go to PURRgatory.<p>Spanish A: No, se van al purGATOrio.