[lit-ideas] Re: Naked Gentlemen
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:20:19 -0400
Phil maintains that, "puns are not funny."
In other words, they are (p)unfunny.
In my opinion, puns are funny, but only infinitesimally funny.
Puns are so meagerly laughable that one may not be aware that one
is being amused by them. It takes an enormous amount of puns, a
Finnegans Wake of puns, to make someone laugh...well not really
laugh, more like chuckle for a fleeting moment, snickering almost
beneath the level of conscious beguilement. In the metrics of
mirth, 10 FWs of puns = 1 Caper; 10 Capers = 1 Gibe; 10 Gibes = 1
Barb; 10 Barbs = 1 Capriole; 10 Caprioles = 1 Gag.
True, I'm splitting hairs here, and that's not funny, albeit more
funny than splitting hares. Yet the purpose of these pun-tags was
to alert the reader to intended humor in a post, and a symbol of
sunlight need not be luminous anymore than a marker of water wet.
The raisin d' eater of this consumption was stated by Prof.
Ritchie--to let us know when to laugh and when to bristle with
offense.
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