Delightfully Appropriate

[Drich]

As I was trying to make an ironic observation. No worries. I see where you were going, but just a little pointer, if you'll indulge. A verbal pun is a play on words often relying on ambiguous meanings, such as a tiger in a zoo saying of his neighbour in the next cage "don't listen to him, he's lion", or a fireman warning about a prankster who sets fires just for laughs "watch out, there's arson about". Or even the one about the nonogenarian priest who watched the young boys' swimming tournament and nearly had a stroke, only he couldn't reach. That sort of thing.

.... Or a story about crap being called crap, by calling into question the valitity of the story.

[Cyberman]

Doubtful use of the word "pun", I fear. Don't get me wrong, I see where you were going for the irony, but quite often words have very specific meanings and their misuse only leads to confusion. I suggest refraining from using them if you don't know what they mean. It'd be like me taking some random bible verse and twisting the context; that would only get your back up.

[Drich]

Doubtful use of the word "pun", I fear. Don't get me wrong, I see where you were going for the irony, but quite often words have very specific meanings and their misuse only leads to confusion. I suggest refraining from using them if you don't know what they mean. It'd be like me taking some random bible verse and twisting the context; that would only get your back up.

I didn't say it was a good pun... But I am playing on the double meaning of the word. Which still technically is considered a pun. I do know the typical construction of a pun is as you accuratly described, but a simply double meaning can also be considered a 'low brow' pun

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pun
The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play which suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.

[Cyberman]

I didn't say it was a good pun either; my point is it's not a pun at all. Even the wiki quote you cite says that your construction isn't a pun. What you posted, if it has a name, is more along the lines of an ironic observation. The fact that nobody recognised it as anything other than a snarky comment demonstrates its non-pun-ness, as puns derive their humour value from being (hopefully) instantly recognisable. Take my recent post "Canon fired" for example. Even the one I called "Jesus Christ Feminista?", while perhaps a little obscure, is a play on "Jesus Christ Superstar".

Now I don't mind what you want to call something but just be aware there are actual names for those things out there. No wonder we can't agree on what a god is or on what would count as evidence for it - we can't even agree on basic language.

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Edit: On reflection, I will grant you that the "This story is crap" part of your comment would qualify as a pun. Had you left it at that I would have applauded. It was the fact that you nailed it onto "How does one leave a 'hatch open' for 30 years an not know?" that obscured it by turning it into a snarky comment.

[Norfolk And Chance]

This story is crap. How does one leave a 'hatch open' for 30 years an not know?

This story is crap. How does one read the bible for 30 years and not know?

Easy done, isn't it?