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Ok, so I'll confess that I'm on the fence on the subject of puns. Sometimes, I LOVE a good pun (or a bad one, depending on your POV) and others I can take it/leave it.

That said, I know there is a rich tradition of puns in gaming (tabletop/video/MMO/etc) and I'd like to hear everyone ring in with their favorite/least favorite/most godsawful puns.

With that said, I'll share one that has very little to do with gaming, but came up during a Shadowrun v1 game that I ran a very very long time ago.

<begin pun>

Now you may or may not be familiar with the concept of "Blue Ice", but the fact of the matter is that it sometimes happens.

Moreover, sometimes it's lethal. Imagine, if you will, a piece of this blue discharge hurtling down from flight altitudes and striking a hapless individual. One day, it happened. Crashed through a person's roof, slamming into them and rendering them VERY dead.

When the CSI was done and the cause of death was declared, the detective in charge wrote it off as "Cause of death = Icy BM"

</pun>

*runs to hide*

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Mikhaila Burnett wrote:

Ok, so I'll confess that I'm on the fence on the subject of puns. Sometimes, I LOVE a good pun (or a bad one, depending on your POV) and others I can take it/leave it.

That said, I know there is a rich tradition of puns in gaming (tabletop/video/MMO/etc) and I'd like to hear everyone ring in with their favorite/least favorite/most godsawful puns.

With that said, I'll share one that has very little to do with gaming, but came up during a Shadowrun v1 game that I ran a very very long time ago.

<begin pun>

Now you may or may not be familiar with the concept of "Blue Ice", but the fact of the matter is that it sometimes happens.

Moreover, sometimes it's lethal. Imagine, if you will, a piece of this blue discharge hurtling down from flight altitudes and striking a hapless individual. One day, it happened. Crashed through a person's roof, slamming into them and rendering them VERY dead.

When the CSI was done and the cause of death was declared, the detective in charge wrote it off as "Cause of death = Icy BM"

</pun>

*runs to hide*

Fixed the link, for you.

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Paul Watson wrote:


Fixed the link, for you.

D'oh! That's like the second time I forgot the /

Thank you! I've updated the original!

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A pun is a rare medium well done.

*runs away


The icy bm line was from one of Spider Robinson's Callahan books from the 70s, but I do approve of CSI for having the good (or bad) taste to steal it.


Oops! Just realized that wasn't supposed to be from CSI..

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Sebastian wrote:

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Sebastian prefers to be the only one who horses around.


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Mikhaila Burnett wrote:
Sebastian wrote:

All posts in this thread that are on topic will be deemed an act of war against me, my affiliates, and all good Americans.

You have been warned...

Wait, so it's a good thing that I'm a bad American? I guess that makes me an Ex-patriot.

Don't mind Sebastian; he loves to plow into a thread to nag and complain until he's hoarse... shoe, pony-boy, shoe!

[Eliza Doolittle] The reins (it's plain) tangle mainly in the mane. [/Eliza Doolittle]


Whenever I go on extended adventures with the party I change my mount to a llama's cousin named Repast. I tell them, "alpaca lunch".

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"Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them."

- Edgar Allan Poe

As it happens, I just started reading The Pun Also Rises by John Pollack.

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HERE is a rich source of puns from OEDILF, The Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form. Enjoy.


drunken_nomad wrote:

A steak pun is a rare medium well done.

*runs away

<fixed>

Now it can be put to rest.
;p


Pun's buns have delicious twists but they've kneaded the bread to be butter.


Sebastian wrote:

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You have been warned...

You are just asking for horse puns.

AJ:I heard Rainbow Dash is back in the Horsepital.
TS: Don't worry, the doctors say she's in stable condition.

Can't believe they never used that in the show.

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