Groaner

[vvvexation]

(crossposted to puns and my personal journal)

I had this thought quite some time ago:

If I used to own a bar...

and then I shut it down and decided to retire...

but later changed my mind and reopened it...

would that make me a re-publican?


But what if I poured out the drinks with a liberal hand?

Comments

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

That bugs me too, actually. I mean, we can't do it quite that fast either...the wonder of using text means we get to think for a while before posting.

[skywalker404.livejournal.com]

Speaking as a truly horrific punster, you actually can. I have had numerous extremely amusing (and long, on the order of 20 minutes) conversations entirely consisting of throwing puns back and forth. Topics have varied from human sex organs (that one gets repeated a lot, unsurprisingly) to film/cameras and many other stranger things.

And that's a lovely pun, by the way. Who was the pour person who you told it to first? Hee hee.

[saizai.livejournal.com]

(Greg, V. V, Greg. *points to both* Zie's my friend.)

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've had such conversations too. It's just that typically--at least when there are just two people--there are a lot of pauses of up to a minute while the next person tries to think of something. I've never been in a conversation where everybody had a pun at the ready within an instant, is what I meant.

[skywalker404.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's exactly what I'd meant. In all of those conversations, the other person/people would come back with a response in less than 10 seconds (usually more like about 1 or 2). You can tell when you're both running out of ideas, because it starts taking longer & longer (10-30 seconds) to think of a good retort. Once it gets to 40 seconds- 1 minute, we usually give up. (Unless someone can suggest an alternative, but related, topic, in which case we're off and running again).

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Ah. My friends and I don't tend to give up when the pauses get that long. There gets to be this sort of "must get in the last word" mentality.