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Need to go one up on one of the regulars? Trying to think of just one more "tooth/truth" pun? Just surf to this site, input "tooth" into the search field, and let it do the rest.
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Okay, been thinking a bit more
about this, and whether having a searchable joke site counts as it being baked. I've decided to move the goalposts.
Rather than a simplistic searchable database of puns and jokes, The "pun search engine" (original name) is more akin to an online dictionary. You can type in one major field (dentistry) and any number of minor fields as an additional option (aliens). The engine will then provide you with lists of possible pun starting words or punning pairs (tooth/truth), and a list of possible puns, sorted by suitability with the additional options as well as the groan rating ("The Tooth is out there" would be pretty high up in our example). Each and every word on screen would have links to related punnery, either by some sort of roll-over mechanism, or by the simple yet glorious hyperlink.
Anyone come up with a better name for this service?
Search only in Puns
http://directory.go...ordplay/Puns/?tc=1/
not a pun generator [thumbwax, Jul 25 2002, last modified Oct 05 2004]
A related idea that is itself a pun
http://www.halfbake.../idea/The_20AutoPun
[theircompetitor, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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This sounds like an idea with some bite! |
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I can't believe it's not baked, actually.. |
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Does it rate them on a "groan meter"? |
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1 groan- not too bad
3 groans- will get you dirty looks
5 groans- you will lose friends with this one |
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But puns that are thought of by yourself are soooo much more rewarding. And in my case lose more friends... 'Pirates of Punzance' almost got me beaten up - but it was worth it for the amount of groans. |
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Maybe this could be your punultimate resort. If you can't find a pun there, you could just not say a pun at all. |
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I knead this sins my jokes have groan weakly less punny. |
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FJ: GGGGG
We can't hang out anymore.. |
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It does a peer in absinthe |
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Bliss: perhaps 'Am I punny or not?' could just be a mechanism for the pun collection... A front for pun-smuggling.. |
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A well done toast, burnt to a crisp. |
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I, for one, think punography is seriously demeaning. |
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Uh-oh, I fear this is going to be just like Otis Bedding...pun for your lives!!! |
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You could distribute the database and call it Punster. If you mirrored it the second search site could be called Alter Punster. Oh the pun of it all. |
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On topic for a moment it shouldn't be too difficult to extract the sentence fragment that makes the sentence a pun and index it in a database. |
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The stumbling block for me is that off-the-cuff puns can be funny because the situation makes them so whereas contructed puns in a speech are almost universally not funny. |
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Maybe we need a rapid response pun unit that listen in on your conversations and provide you with a small receiver/display device that you mount just beyond the end of your shirt sleeve? |
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If you make too many puns, do they lock you up in a punitentiary or a punal colony. Punishment indeed. |
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I like the idea of a rapid response unit. In fact, if the unit had accompanying dogs, it could might turn out to be a 'rabid' response unit. Do you think there would be many 'pun'ters? |
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Regarding a name, how about 'Here Comes The Pun', named after a famous Beatles song. Or 'Pun House', named after a famous gameshow presented by a be-mulleted Pat Sharpe? Or even 'The Punning Man', named after a famous film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger? Or 'All for Pun, and Pun for All!' named after a famous catchphrase by some moustachioed Frenchmen? |
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Hehe - I like the all for pun and pun for all... might change the title in a bit.. |
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I agree with the Jinbush. A true punster's brain should to the punning work. If you must resort to running it through a punner-bot, well that's very insincere. |
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Agh, he speaks the truth. |
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//I like the idea of a rapid response unit. In fact, if the unit had accompanying dogs, it could might turn out to be a 'rabid' response unit.// |
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Wouldn't this instead be a rabid respunse unit? |
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Only if you wanted it to be. Sorry, Loonie, I'm not in the mood for any gags today...it's just been pun of those days. |
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I need a fix. Its been a while since I competed in my last punathon. Help me please |
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chunky22: Go to the 'Aphorism game show' - see link'. That is there current battlegroaned for puns. |
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My suggestion for a Name, with particular application to the Web:
awe-full_awful_offal.net
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Because some puns are that good, and some are that bad. :) For example, Why is the Windows Operating System perfect for frogs?
"Reboot...reboot...reboot...reboot..." |
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Were having pun with this one |
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I can't see that this would be such a great idea, it would reduce the originality of all puns, and I seem to find most of the fun is in the spontaneity of it all.
Jinbish had the right idea. |
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well, i think it's a great idea. all you
have to do is figure out the basic
mechanisms for puns; is it only
rhyming? i think it goes beyond that, a
little. spelling, etc. |
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having a secondary reference may make
it too complex. in my rhyming
dictionary, few sounds have a page full
of rhymes. it wouldn't be too much to
sort through to find the one appropriate
for your situation. |
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