Is a tree fund some new kind of financial instrument?
Anyone? Your editor has a theory but doesn’t much like it.
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“Tree funds” sounds like “refunds,” and all sales are final at this store, as the sign indicates.
Agree with madmup. An ordinary pun.
jeez, too simple for me to see.
What sort of affected dialect or impediment would add the letter T to “no” or “refunds”?
bensondonald: A punster one.
Benson, puns are not based on speech impediments, at least in good company. Making fun of impediments went out of style a long time ago and we’re better for it (although I still have a soft spot for Spike Jones). Sometimes they’re based on dialects, usually exaggerated ones, but it’s not necessary or common and can be in bad taste if they have a racial bent. Most puns are just words and phrases that sound similar enough to connect, ideally in a context that reinforces both meanings.
I got it right off, but that doesn’t make it funny. This reminds me of a comic about a wizard chiropractor, with a sign in the window that said, “All Spells Are Spinal.” It took me a minute to realize it was a joke on “All Sales Are Final.” Not really worth the effort it took to get, IMO.
As the Modern Major General said in the Pirates of Penzance: “Stop! I think I see where we are getting confused. When you said “orphan”, did you mean “orphan” – a person who has lost his parents, or “often”, frequently?”
Xine Fury (7): I thought both yours and the comic were funny. Yours sounds like it came from a Robert Asprin story.
Having gone to Hebrew school in early 1960s, what jumps into my mind when I hear “tree fund”, is a collection to raise money to plant trees in Israel which was a popular thing to do back then.
I was never sure how the trees would survive in a desert.
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“Tree funds” sounds like “refunds,” and all sales are final at this store, as the sign indicates.
Agree with madmup. An ordinary pun.
jeez, too simple for me to see.
What sort of affected dialect or impediment would add the letter T to “no” or “refunds”?
bensondonald: A punster one.
Benson, puns are not based on speech impediments, at least in good company. Making fun of impediments went out of style a long time ago and we’re better for it (although I still have a soft spot for Spike Jones). Sometimes they’re based on dialects, usually exaggerated ones, but it’s not necessary or common and can be in bad taste if they have a racial bent. Most puns are just words and phrases that sound similar enough to connect, ideally in a context that reinforces both meanings.
I got it right off, but that doesn’t make it funny. This reminds me of a comic about a wizard chiropractor, with a sign in the window that said, “All Spells Are Spinal.” It took me a minute to realize it was a joke on “All Sales Are Final.” Not really worth the effort it took to get, IMO.
As the Modern Major General said in the Pirates of Penzance: “Stop! I think I see where we are getting confused. When you said “orphan”, did you mean “orphan” – a person who has lost his parents, or “often”, frequently?”
Xine Fury (7): I thought both yours and the comic were funny. Yours sounds like it came from a Robert Asprin story.
Having gone to Hebrew school in early 1960s, what jumps into my mind when I hear “tree fund”, is a collection to raise money to plant trees in Israel which was a popular thing to do back then.
I was never sure how the trees would survive in a desert.