(the most stupidest pun ever)
guy 1: knock knock
me: who's there
guy 1: orange
me: orange who
guy 1: orange you glad i didn't say bannanas?
*BANG*
me: I had a "blast" hanging with you...
A clever play on words, often used for comedy. The play on words often use similar sounding words or homonyms to replace words that would normally be in the sentence. Another form is when a word with a double meaning is used to relate to a different word in the sentence in two different ways. Puns tend not to be funny, and often receives light sarcastic laughter. Many people fail at making these. One specific person comes into mind...
Chinese teacher: So, HOW is life?
Chinese student: Life is HAO.
Chinese teacher: *sighs* Why must I put up with this?
James: Oh, It's pun! *high fives*
Chinese student: wooooooooow...
Chinese teacher: Detention, both of you.
1. A joke, usually a play on words involving either a homonym, or a phrase that rhymes with the original quote.
2. A very, very, VERY low form of humor, and often makes everyone within a ten mile radius sigh and pinch their eyes together.
These jokes will likely get you killed, the best case scenario is that someone laughs, simply because the joke is so bad/stupid, that said person cannot help but laugh, then tell you to get the out of the room.
A play on words. Generally a pun takes a word that is quite understandable in context and replaces it with a homonym (same-sounding word) to create an entirely new meaning, or replaces a word with a similar-sounding one to the same effect.
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A pun involving a word with two possible meanings --
Nurse, to young woman about to receive a vaccination:
"You're going to feel a little prick."
Woman: "It wouldn't be the first time."
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A pun that uses a similar-sounding term to the expected one, to humorous effect --
A play on words, which, when used correctly, can bring one a load of laughs and a barrel of cool.
Really Clever Kid:"Hey, you wanna hear a pun?" Really Hot Girl:"Yeah, sure!"
Really Clever Kid: "What do you call a girl living in the Playboy Mansion of Czechoslovakia?"
Really Hot Girl: "I.D.K. What?!??!!?"
Really Clever Kid: "A checkmate!"
Really Hot Girl: "LOL!!!!!! Lets have sex..."
A noun used to represent a form of play-on-word that dwells on taking advantage of similar sounding words or different definitions/implications of a certain word or phrase, generally used for comic relief, or to express your own cleverness and distaste of others' sanity. Not to be confused with double entendre. A well crafted pun requires both flow of pronunciation and well-layered meanings.
My friend made a pun while waiting to get his juice refilled. Here comes the punch line.
Person 1: How come I only have $20 in my wallet?
Person 2: Probably because you spent it on useless crap.
Person 1: Now that makes 'CENTS'
Person 2 : That was terrible! You need a PUNishment for that
A pun is a clever use of words that usually makes the listener, or rather, victim, do one or several of the following:
Laugh
Smile Face palm
Groan Roll eyes
Pretend to ignore
Cry
Swear
Die inside.
Puns in their most common form are very simple to make, and take almost no amount of intelligence to understand; Orange you glad you're reading this?
Puns of this form are the funniest.
A person who makes good puns is considered "Punny".
The making of puns is a very prestigious but often unappreciated art.
Forests are full of wood.
People use wood to make chairs.
Chairs are for-rest.
Maybe I should leaf the internet
*Points at fish habitat*
I went to the tattoo parlor the other day, and the guy inside asked me: Would you like to hab-i-tat?
*Gets out of car*
That was a wheel-y tire-ing day.
*During a Storm*
Woah, look at the wind doe, through the window.
Anne Frankly, I did nazi that coming. Did jew?
"Did Jew" was the neinth pun in these examples.
You're ruining my concentration. Camp you quiet down?
Well, I gas I could.
Auschwitz one was the best? Israeli hard to choose.