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(Message started by: Iceman on Feb 26th, 2009, 7:28am)
Title: Desert
Post by Iceman on Feb 26th, 2009, 7:28am
Why can’t you starve in the desert?  :P
Title: Re: Desert
Post by cheesepuff on Feb 26th, 2009, 8:07am
any pun intended?
Title: Re: Desert
Post by Iceman on Feb 26th, 2009, 9:06am
Affirmative.
Title: Re: Desert
Post by cheesepuff on Feb 26th, 2009, 9:22am
Anything you shouldn't eat until your done with your veggies?
Title: Re: Desert
Post by Iceman on Feb 26th, 2009, 10:31am
Not sure what you mean but it has to do with [hide]certain food[/hide].
Title: Re: Desert
Post by iono on Feb 26th, 2009, 5:09pm
Do these foods have a sugary taste?
Title: Re: Desert
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Feb 26th, 2009, 7:44pm
Fair warning: this is a really bad pun.  I've heard it before so I won't spoil the surprise, but [hide]Glinda[/hide] might be obscure enough a hint to mention here.
Title: Re: Desert
Post by Azgard on Feb 26th, 2009, 8:20pm
As in [hide]The Wizard of Oz Glinda[/hide]?
Title: Re: Desert
Post by Iceman on Mar 2nd, 2009, 6:25am

on 02/26/09 at 17:09:28, iono wrote:
Do these foods have a sugary taste?

No.


on 02/26/09 at 19:44:02, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wrote:
Fair warning: this is a really bad pun.

I heard the joke in some movie. It sounds pretty good to me.
Title: Re: Desert
Post by towr on Mar 2nd, 2009, 6:33am

on 02/26/09 at 07:28:02, Iceman wrote:
Why can’t you starve in the desert?  :P
You die of dehydration first. :P
Title: Re: Desert
Post by Iceman on Mar 2nd, 2009, 6:55am
I am looking for an answer with pun.  ;)
Title: Re: Desert
Post by towr on Mar 2nd, 2009, 7:16am
Well, near as I can tell most people are thinking it has to do with desserts, but you just said it wasn't something sweet, and desserts usually are.

Does it make a difference what sort of desert it is?
Title: Re: Desert
Post by Iceman on Mar 2nd, 2009, 8:57am

on 03/02/09 at 07:16:33, towr wrote:
Well, near as I can tell most people are thinking it has to do with desserts, but you just said it wasn't something sweet, and desserts usually are.

Not bad, but I had something else in mind, so no desserts.



on 03/02/09 at 07:16:33, towr wrote:
Does it make a difference what sort of desert it is?

I don't know much about types of deserts, but I was thinking of a usual desert, whatever that means.  ::)
Title: Re: Desert
Post by Grimbal on Mar 2nd, 2009, 9:05am
A desert, whatever the type, is ... well ... desert.  That means there is nobody there.  And nobody, that includes you :P.  So if you aren't there, you can't starve there.
Title: Re: Desert
Post by Iceman on Mar 2nd, 2009, 10:39am
Nope.
Title: Re: Desert
Post by SMQ on Mar 2nd, 2009, 10:51am
Before we get too far afield, let's pick a concrete example of a desert -- the Sahara, for instance, or the Gobi if you prefer -- and think about some of its attributes. ;)

--SMQ

edited for stupidity: apparently I can't English.
Title: Re: Desert
Post by Whiskey Tango Foxtrot on Mar 2nd, 2009, 11:42am

on 03/02/09 at 06:25:00, Iceman wrote:
I heard the joke in some movie.
Judging by the sources of your past material I was pretty sure of that.  ;)

As to my earlier statement, the pun is not poorly constructed and it definitely "works."  I was referring more to how often it would elicit a collective groan from the audience.  But now that I think about it, would a groaner be a good pun?  I guess "bad pun" could mean either one, or both.

My example of a "bad pun:"
Did the grape cry when it was stepped on?
[hide]No, but it let out a little wine[/hide].
That one is so bad it hurts.


on 03/02/09 at 10:51:29, SMQ wrote:
edited for stupidity: apparently I can't English.
I must have changed this post five times, so don't worry, I can't English either.
Title: Re: Desert
Post by Azgard on Mar 2nd, 2009, 3:04pm
This is an excerpt from The Callahan Chronicals, a collection of short stories by Spider Robinson. Specifically from "Have You Heard The One...?"

People grade a pun by their reaction to it. The very best, of course, as Bernard Shaw said, is when one's audience holds its collective nose and flees screaming from one's vicinity. Immediate laughter or groan is a lesser approbation. And in between these two is the pause, followed only after five or ten stunned seconds by cheers and jeers.

I quite like this description, although I'm not sure how it would work in a forum setting...
Title: Re: Desert
Post by cheesepuff on Mar 2nd, 2009, 8:57pm
a five post delayed response of smiley faces and random noises typed out
Title: Re: Desert
Post by Grimbal on Mar 3rd, 2009, 3:00am

on 03/02/09 at 10:51:29, SMQ wrote:
... let's pick a concrete example of a desert -- the Sahara, for instance, or the Gobi if you prefer -- and think about some of its attributes. ;)


Er... is it some play of words with sand and sandwich?
Title: Re: Desert
Post by Iceman on Mar 3rd, 2009, 7:50am

on 03/03/09 at 03:00:33, Grimbal wrote:
Er... is it some play of words with sand and sandwich?

It is.
Title: Re: Desert
Post by iono on Mar 3rd, 2009, 7:16pm
Oh, I get it. Ouch.
Title: Re: Desert
Post by pfeinstein on Nov 14th, 2012, 1:53pm
[hide]You'll probably die of dehydration before starving to death.[/hide]


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