{"id":18061,"date":"2019-11-11T09:51:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T17:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18061"},"modified":"2019-11-11T09:50:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T17:50:59","slug":"more-puns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2019\/11\/11\/more-puns\/","title":{"rendered":"More puns"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Back in 2013, I posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2013\/10\/18\/some-puns\/\">collection of puns<\/a> that my uncle Dobe had sent me. Several of them had a format I particularly like: a brief situation setup, followed by a common phrase that, in this context, is a pun. My favorite example (listed on that page): \u201cI wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me!\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>(I feel like there should be a name for that pun template; suggestions welcome.)<\/p>\r\n<p>Anyway, I just encountered another one along these lines, also of unknown origin:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Yesterday I saw an ad that said \u201cRadio for sale, $1, volume stuck on full.\u201d I thought, <i>I can\u2019t turn that down<\/i>.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Here are three tweets in similar formats:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">i don&#39;t know what units to express entropy in!! ha ha, J\/K<\/p>&mdash; Kris Straub (@krisstraub) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krisstraub\/status\/716307393068404736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2016<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\r\n<p>(For those who don\u2019t get that: Wikipedia says \u201cThe SI unit for Entropy (S) is Joules per Kelvin (J\/K).\u201d)<\/p>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The thing about Dorian Gray jokes is they honestly never get old<\/p>&mdash; Parker Higgins (@xor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xor\/status\/1167145529899442176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 29, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My grandfather could speak to ghosts, who would tell him what size clothes to wear. He was a medium.<\/p>&mdash; Hrishikesh Hirway (@HrishiHirway) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HrishiHirway\/status\/1190344633332584448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> \r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n<p>While I\u2019m here, here\u2019s a quote from John Kessel\u2019s 1988 story \u201cMrs. Shummel Exits a Winner,\u201d although this one isn\u2019t in the abovedescribed format:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\u201cHe makes straight A\u2019s,\u201d Betty muttered.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no_indent\">\u201cYes,\u201d said Martha. \u201cBut his B\u2019s are a little crooked.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18061"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18069,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18061\/revisions\/18069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}