RE: Delightfully Appropriate
November 26, 2012 at 4:21 pm
(This post was last modified: November 26, 2012 at 4:26 pm by 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.
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.
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.
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.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'