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23 November 2005

Litcon #1: Write a Pun Stealing wholesale from the MeTa thread re: writing contests, I figured I'd start us out on the right foot.→[More:]

Literary Contest #1: Write a Pun. In my opinion, the True Art of the Pun is in creating a back-story that is obviously leading to something punny, but unable to guess the punch-line. The more artful you are, the longer your back-story can be and the more tantalizing the clues.

Original puns only, please.

Bonus points if you can involve popular MeFi aliases. Double bonus points if they are caricaturized.

post by: Five Fresh Fish at: 20:38 | 17 comments

But if I do this I will have to take my attention away from finishing up my Christmas carol parody "The Twelve Days of MeFi".

You are featured prominently in that parody, BTW. Can you possibly guess where?

posted by yhbc 23 November | 20:50

Oh no.

posted by Five Fresh Fish 23 November | 21:07

I can't wait to hear that, yhbc.

posted by interrobang 23 November | 21:16

one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

Granted, none of them feature the names of mefites. I recommend starting with six and three.

posted by kenko 23 November | 21:24

Eight.

posted by kenko 23 November | 21:25

"You're looking kinda stringy," said the sockpuppet.

posted by amberglow 23 November | 21:29

I also once told this shaggy dog story on IRC. Names have been changed to protect the innocent; I'm "Sphenion".

posted by kenko 23 November | 21:29

Whoops! Should have been "six and four". Three is fairly obscure.

posted by kenko 23 November | 21:34

I am the pun master!

posted by kenko 23 November | 22:21

oh kenko wins. already.

posted by dhruva 23 November | 22:58

No way. I have not yet begun to pun.

posted by wendell 23 November | 23:41

I much prefer short, self contained puns. I think they have the most finesse:

I have a caraway seed stuck in my teeth, he observed wryly.

posted by pointilist 24 November | 00:33

"What do you call those?" I asked, Swiftly.

posted by weapons-grade pandemonium 24 November | 02:56

As Will Rogers once said about cigarettes: "I've never met a filter I didn't like."

But then, I always thought Kenko was a warehouse store run by Barbie's ex-boyfriend.

And here's the MetaFilter Tom Swifties thread I liked so much, said Wendell metaphorically.

posted by wendell 24 November | 05:57

I hate puns. Hate them. But I like those Tom Swifties.

posted by kmellis 24 November | 06:11

"Those puns are a blight," said Ethereal.

posted by wendell 24 November | 08:18

I want to apologize for schooling five fresh fish on puns.

Camping can be in tents.

The neocons on Iraq: "A change of state would be sublime."

posted by pointilist 24 November | 10:33

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