Proposal: New Forum Section - "Puns"

[Pleezerwell]

Is there any support for creating a new forum section limited to all threads dominated by the exchange of puns? And that this punning be banned from all other sections?

I hope that I'm not the only one getting a little tired of threads being continually hijacked by the great punsters of terb. I've found it to get old really, really fast.

Usually I'm a big fan of humour. I guess it has to be funny.

PW

 

[HG Hunter]

I love a good pun. But for a pun to have the intended effect, it usually has to be in the proper context, therefore, in the thread it was written for.

 

[mickmasterson]

Pleezerwell,

Perhaps partake in this practice. While perusing a thread, I keep my peepers peeled for painfully poor puns or particularly prickly parlance. Where possible, I scroll past the people and posts that piss me off.

Seriously, though. Just ignore them. They're fishing for reactions. Starve them of that, and they may stop.

 

[shack]

I hope that I'm not the only one getting a little tired of threads being continually hijacked by the great punsters of terb.

PW

You are not.

 

[Rono]

I agree. They really are not punny.

 

[Brill]

A good pun is its own re-word.

 

[T.O.tourist]

Someones up on a soapbox puntificating to the pundits. Perhaps he's in Punta Cana puntificating in Punjabi.

 

[C Dick]

I do not understand why most other forms of offensive behaviour are not permitted on Terb, but puns are. Perhaps the moderators would consider adding them to the list of forbidden activities? It would be interesting to see the results of a poll as whether we would rather keep them or lose them.

 

[The Fruity Hare]

I do not understand why most other forms of offensive behaviour are not permitted on Terb, but puns are. Perhaps the moderators would consider adding them to the list of forbidden activities? It would be interesting to see the results of a poll as whether we would rather keep them or lose them.

Where is the poll?

 

[mickmasterson]

I do not understand why most other forms of offensive behaviour are not permitted on Terb, but puns are. Perhaps the moderators would consider adding them to the list of forbidden activities? It would be interesting to see the results of a poll as whether we would rather keep them or lose them.

I don't see how puns (or alliteration, above) are prima facie offensive.

Ads and reviews would be very dry reading without the use of sexual humour. Sexual humour relies on word play, puns, double entendre, innuendo, and so forth.

"cum over to my place"

"she really sucked"

etc..

I think the underlying problem is thread hijacking and the intentional disruption threads, which we often see happening without the use of puns.

 

[C Dick]

I think the underlying problem is thread hijacking and the intentional disruption threads, which we often see happening without the use of puns.

Yes, you are right, it is not puns specifically that are offensive, it is thread hijacking for no purpose that is offensive. A pun worked into a useful response adds humour, as you say. But a thread about a subject that then gets filled by clowns making bad puns is a waste of everyone's time.

 

[Malibook]

Is there any support for creating a new forum section limited to all threads dominated by the exchange of puns? And that this punning be banned from all other sections?

I hope that I'm not the only one getting a little tired of threads being continually hijacked by the great punsters of terb. I've found it to get old really, really fast.

Usually I'm a big fan of humour. I guess it has to be funny.

PW

Amen!!
Most of them are not even mildly amusing.
That crap got old a long time ago but I guess they still crack themselves up.

 

[Hangman]

Yes, you are right, it is not puns specifically that are offensive, it is thread hijacking for no purpose that is offensive. A pun worked into a useful response adds humour, as you say. But a thread about a subject that then gets filled by clowns making bad puns is a waste of everyone's time.

The thread hijacking and resultant punster circle-jerk is very annoying. Repeated offenders should get a short suspension.t

 

[Brill]

Where would the banned play if they didn't have a stage?

 

[Rono]

Where would the banned play if they didn't have a stage?

Perhaps at the Air Banada Centre.

 

[69Shooter]

Perhaps this site will offer an outlet for the serious punsters on this board:

http://www.punoftheday.com/

 

[69Shooter]

I don't think that any punster on Terb is "serious"

Maybe I should I have added that to the oxymoron thread?

 

[red]

I know I'm one of those "great" punsters. More often than not, people take stuff WAY too seriously here (and am even guilty of it myself on occasion). In any pun I write, you can read "lighten-up" between the lines, and I don't think that's such a bad message every once in a while. Of course, you could stick me on ignore, but then you'll miss my intelligent (if I dare say so my self) contributions.

exactly right.

 

[mmouse]

How about having the ability to flag individual posts as puns. Then give us the ability to view threads in in pun-less mode.

 

[red]

How about having the ability to flag individual posts as puns. Then give us the ability to view threads in in pun-less mode.

its all about punishing small business.