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Welcome to Name It! We're all about finding the perfect name for pets, inanimate objects, or people. Join us as we celebrate diverse names and their stories, exploring the fascinating world of naming together! 🌟

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[–] jupyter_rain@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Christian Wale

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That one is especially good if the fish is tiny.

[–] jupyter_rain@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Or likes to murder people while wearing raincoats. Idk

[–] PinkyCoyote@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Gillbert

[–] vivadanang@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

SHARKBAIT OOH AAH AAH

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Name it Ghoti

[–] DuffmanOfTheCosmos@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Fishtopher Walken

[–] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Qwerty

[+] 13esq@lemmy.world -8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Puns are the lowest tier form of comedy

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're not, though. Good wordplay requires a great deal of wit, much more than sex or fart jokes. Puns are actually often used as the punch lines for longer-form jokes that require some rehearsal to sell to an audience.

What has happened is that, as a society, we have decided to show appreciation for puns by groaning instead of laughing, and the punster is looking for that groan when they're telling it.

[–] 13esq@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I somewhat agree, good word play does require a great deal of wit. But most puns are low hanging fruit, it's probably less than 1% of puns that have some originality and novel thought about them. (A quick Google search shows that OPs puns are pretty far from original)

However, I appreciate that humour is subjective. And of course I'd expect to be downvoted for moaning about puns in a pun post.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Well, they're like any other joke. People hear them, either like them or don't, and repeat the ones they like. It's not often you get properly original ones nowadays because English has been around for a pretty long time and wordplay has been a big part of it since before the 1600's, and probably longer. Shakespeare is famous for putting puns and innuendo in his plays, for example.