Frank and Ernest by Thaves for November 06, 2011

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    lewisbower  almost 13 years ago

    I’ve read many a mystery where the Priest is never suspected. Kill that punster and I’ll throw a twenty in the plate.

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    GalleyOar  almost 13 years ago

    aggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh !! Why do I read these?

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    PShaw0423  almost 13 years ago

    As somebody once noted, a pun is the only kind of joke that gets groans instead of laughs…and the better/worse it is, the louder the groans. And incidentally, it’s also the only kind of joke that doesn’t involve cruelty and mocking someone else’s misfortune. There’s a lot of interesting food for thought there.

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    mrneophyte  almost 13 years ago

    Hey, that is a Spoonerism

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    librisleo  almost 13 years ago

    That is absolutely the worst pun I have heard in a long time! I’ll have to remember to use it myself! ;)

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    billtomlinson442  almost 13 years ago

    Scaaty I disagree that all other humor is based on cruelty and mocking someone else’s misfortune. Irony is also humorous.

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    comicnut4636  almost 13 years ago

    VERY PUNNY!!!

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    billtomlinson442  almost 13 years ago

    Thanks for that RCMinor, I’ll look that up. I’m wondering now whether irony is a sudden incongruity. Of course, irony is not the kind of humor that evokes an immediate laughter response.

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    lightenup Premium Member almost 13 years ago

    LOL!! Love it! :-)

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    InTraining  almost 13 years ago

    grrrrrroooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonnn…….

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    Yukoneric  almost 13 years ago

    We all need a little suffering………….

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    PShaw0423  almost 13 years ago

    billtominson442, RCMinor: a good discussion..I would agree that all humor, including puns and irony, involves incongruity. But not all incongruity is funny. It’s easy enough to think of examples of incongruity and absurdity that aren’t funny or evoke laughter, or in fact much of anything..It seems to me that, to be humorous, a situation must include the hearer enjoying a feeling of superiority to the victim of the joke, and, at least on some level, mocking him for it. (Why that may get expressed as laughter is more complicated. Some primatology researchers theorize that laughter is an expression of anger and fear at a threatening situation, and relief that the threat isn’t aimed at oneself.) For exactly that reason, the butt of the joke may get angry not at the situation, but at those who are laughing..Man seems to be the only animal that appreciates a joke, much less a pun — but it can tell us more about ourselves than we want to know. (“Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

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    Michelle Morris  almost 13 years ago

    I love the long setups. Even when you see it coming, it still smacks you in the face at the end!

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    treBsdrawkcaB  almost 13 years ago

    If you don’t like Frank & Ernest humor, reading it seems like PUNishment. My wife & I met and got to know each other over puns! We and our 4 children still love a good one and have many word plays.

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    bmonk  almost 13 years ago

    There was a story—perhaps by Asimov—that noted that puns are distinct from other forms of humor, and postulated that the human race was a test-bed for humor, and once we discovered this fact, it would be replaced with something else. The story ends with the characters trying to remember a joke, any joke—and wondering what will replace humor.

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    bmonk  almost 13 years ago

    Yes: Jokester!

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    mcapone  almost 13 years ago

    Ironically, the organ at my church is being repaired this week. I’m gonna cut this out (print this out?) and leave it on the organ for the repairman to find!

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    natureboyfig4 Premium Member almost 13 years ago

    Unfortunately, most pews aren’t used often enough to bother with fixing.

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