Since this trope is simply called "Pun", what should happen to all the links that connect to it? Someone tried to reroute a link, but it only ruined it. I tried it once and got the same result. Is there something wrong with the linking system? Because there seems to be a problem with it.
One question, you all want tropes to be as punny as possible, right? I'm sure you know not everyone understands puns. I'm one of those people, so I don't really understand some trope names, as well as the connections between some tropes and their meanings.
"The true problem with puns is that they are the lowest form of humor, and often are not very punny."
The second half is undeniable but the first half is just as undeniably untrue. There's lots of kinds of humor that are pretty much uniformly worse than puns...
(Actually, who needs love when one has music?...) Hide / Show Replies(also, came to this page looking for the usual list of "Tropename as they appear in various media broken down by type of media" but it's absent why? (Because giving examples would require- giving examples? Especially when one gets to Shakespeare, whose puns are stunning, not surprisingly?)
Edited by SchisselEL1 (Actually, who needs love when one has music?...)I think we should bring back the Incredibly Lame Pun trope.
Hide / Show RepliesBecause it's a redirect to Pun now. The trope that was there before is at Lame Pun Reaction.
Edited by 188.63.59.57 "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanIMO, we should start changing Incredibly Lame Pun links so that they actually read Pun, or possibly Lame Pun Reaction, depending on the use.
Edited by CJB42 Preparing Signature protocols. Accessing personnel file. Preparing Voice Systems. Deploying Speech Protocols: Hello World.A Transpositional Pun, in the definition I know, is not a Russian Reversal- it's when letters, syllables, or words in a phrase are switched, possibly creating meaningful words (or maybe just being silly). This is called a spoonerism, after the Cambridge don (IIRC) William Archibald Spooner. I don't think that spoonerisms are really Too Rare To Trope, but I can't come up with enough examples off the top of my head to make a page.
As an example: supposedly, when announcing hymns for a church service, Spooner misspoke and instead of "Conquering Kings Their Titles Take", he said "Kinkering Kongs".
Hopefully I'll feel confident to change my avatar off this scumbag soon. Apologies to any scumbags I insulted.Created from Punny Stuff as per TRS thread
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I will never forget the Kanji ideogram for noise is [some shape] and for woman is [three noise ideograms together].
It is racist, punny, funny, and Lost in Translation all wrapped into one.