gjustice99 she/her Posted January 6, 2015 Posted January 6, 2015 (edited) I have realized that I am bad at recognizing puns. I did not get how an epic named Rick O'Shea was funny until later when I was reading something about Steelheart on TV Tropes. I was like "Oh! Its pronounced ricochet!" I only realized that Wax and Wayne was a pun when I was reading some interviews on Theoryland about character naming and someone mentioned that it was a pun. Please tell me I'm not alone here! Edited January 6, 2015 by gjustice99 4
Redbird he/him Posted January 6, 2015 Posted January 6, 2015 I did not get the Rick O' Shea until the second time I read Steelheart. 2
Delightful Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 I did not get the Rick O' Shea until the second time I read Steelheart.I think I gagged at that one, got it the first time round though. 3
Ashiok Posted January 11, 2015 Posted January 11, 2015 I got Rick first time, that was funny. Wax and Wayne took me till the end of the book, then I had an epiphany. I know I probably missed some others though... 1
Curiosity he/him Posted January 25, 2015 Posted January 25, 2015 My family has peppered me with puns from infancy, so I think that I have a chronic condition of appreciating puns.
Bronzeheart he/him Posted January 25, 2015 Posted January 25, 2015 I also have a tendency to both recognize and make really bad puns. Heck, my own name (birth name, that is) is a pun in a sense. Even funnier, though, is that my mother did it on purpose.
gjustice99 she/her Posted April 8, 2015 Author Posted April 8, 2015 (edited) I should be good at recognizing puns as I read Artemis Fowl where almost every characters name is a pun, but I'm not Edited April 8, 2015 by gjustice99
Kestrel she/her Posted April 9, 2015 Posted April 9, 2015 I take a lot of my puns from the internet because I'm literal trash. But my friend pulled a great accidental one. Or rather, on purpose, but it was accidentally funnier than it should have been. We were talking, about.. a year ago it must have been. Back when I was reading Words of Radiance for the first time. I told her "I'm not sure how I like Stormlight Archive. Its a bit long and the plot is really slow." And she turns to me, at three in the morning, and says right in my face, "That's because its just a shard of the plot!" I lost it. Not only was it a Shardplate pun, but it was also a pun for the entire Cosmere. Which she didn't know existed back then until I told her. She just outpunned everything. 1
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