Simply Punning...

*GROAN*

I love to laugh.

I love listening to others laugh.

I think that the worst thing a person can lack is perspective, and the second worst is a sense of humor.

In my father's case, his killer sense of humor made the last few years of his life livable.

Dad never gave me very much advice. He was always supportive and had a lot of faith in my ability to make good choices for myself.

Because he gave advice so rarely when he did advise I hung on every word.

The last advice my father ever gave me was:

You should never again date a man who doesn't find Eddie Izzard "Dressed to Kill" hilarious.

He was dead serious.

He was dead right.

He actually said that I shouldn't even be friends with anyone that didn't "get" Eddie but I have had to relax on that a bit.

He was a bit of a humor snob, and I am noticing that I am too -
Because really, the only thing worse than having no sense of humor, is having a bad sense of humor. It's really so much worse.

Now, I know that humor is subjective, but this is my blog and these are my opinions.

There are so many different types of humor. Slapstick, sarcasm, dry, subtle, dirty...

It seems as if all types of humor can be good or bad, even bad humor, but some types of humor are hardly ever good.

The problem of puns...

Puns are hardly ever funny. For the most part, puns are followed by eye rolls - not laughter. It is so rare that a pun is laugh-out-loud funny or actually even clever, that I'm thinking it would be outstanding if puns could be outlawed for use with the obvious exception of witty business and product names.

The top 10 funny puns on Punoftheday.com as "as voted by visitors to this site" are:

1. I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me. 4.1 stars
2. He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends. 4.1 stars
3. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart. 4.1 stars
4. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. 4.1 stars
5. A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two-tired. 4.0 stars
6. Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I'll show you A-flat minor. 4.0 stars
7. A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat. 4.0 stars
8. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds. 4.0 stars
9. Those who jump off a Paris bridge are in Seine. 4.0 stars
10. To write with a broken pencil is pointless.

This in my opinion illustrates two things...

1. Puns are not funny
2. People that go searching for puns online have a bad sense of humor (or are just searching for validation that puns suck...)


Here are some links to websites dedicated to punning. I think you will agree that other than poor design, they all have one thing in common. They are simply put:

Unfunny.

You decide...


Puns...
More Puns...
Even More Puns...
ENOUGH PUNS ALREADY!!!

If you don't agree by all means - let me have it.

Then go watch Eddie Izzard and tell me what you think...