Unca Scrooge: Wallace says “komodo dragon” and she asks “what’s a kombucha dragon”. The words sound nothing alike. I don’t get it.
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Kombucha is currently an “in” fitness drink.
Pasghetti!
“komodo” sounds nothing like “kombucha,” but I can see that if you’ve never heard of “komodo dragon” before, your mind just fills in the blank with something that only has a very slight sound resemblance. That’s certainly happened to me. Not sure why it’s funny, though.
They sound enough alike. If you hear a word of three utterly alien syllables and try to repeat them when a memory hasn’t formed you can malaprop astonishingly. Friends did a joke about George Snuffleupagus and my step-father cracked up a waitress when he asked form that nice Muskrat Wine.
My question is how on earth can any-one not have heard of a Komodo Dragon?
“A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.”
Arthur, if I understand you correctly, you’re saying that my comment was the height of eloquence and wit? Thank you!
I was dragon my way through that one when I saw it the first time. Kombucha sounds like how a Spanish-German curls up.
Arthur did we recently see something about the horse on seventh avenue?
Yay Arthur.
Yay Kombucha Dragons!
Andrea – are okay?
It’s a humor error I first saw pointed out by Isaac Asimov: puns work by the sound of words, not the appearance (for the hearing, anyway). His example was the “Polish” (the nationality) is not a good pun in place of “polish” (the action of making something shiny). This one is even worse.
What is there left to say about Komodo dragons, after Bob and Ray exhausted the subject?
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Kombucha is currently an “in” fitness drink.
Pasghetti!
“komodo” sounds nothing like “kombucha,” but I can see that if you’ve never heard of “komodo dragon” before, your mind just fills in the blank with something that only has a very slight sound resemblance. That’s certainly happened to me. Not sure why it’s funny, though.
They sound enough alike. If you hear a word of three utterly alien syllables and try to repeat them when a memory hasn’t formed you can malaprop astonishingly. Friends did a joke about George Snuffleupagus and my step-father cracked up a waitress when he asked form that nice Muskrat Wine.
My question is how on earth can any-one not have heard of a Komodo Dragon?
“A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.”
Arthur, if I understand you correctly, you’re saying that my comment was the height of eloquence and wit? Thank you!
I was dragon my way through that one when I saw it the first time. Kombucha sounds like how a Spanish-German curls up.
Arthur did we recently see something about the horse on seventh avenue?
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Yay Arthur.
Yay Kombucha Dragons!
Andrea – are okay?
It’s a humor error I first saw pointed out by Isaac Asimov: puns work by the sound of words, not the appearance (for the hearing, anyway). His example was the “Polish” (the nationality) is not a good pun in place of “polish” (the action of making something shiny). This one is even worse.
What is there left to say about Komodo dragons, after Bob and Ray exhausted the subject?
Click to access Komodo_Dragon_Expert.pdf
There was also a very amusing description of them in a “Last Chance to See” (co-authored by Douglas Adams). I read it in German, but it was still quite good.
I’ve seen worse in Crankshaft.
They’re both k-words. K-words are funny.
FYI @ zookeeper (and everyone else) – Andréa is OK, she’s just taking a break from comics for personal reasons.