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?”
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.
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Agree with madmup. An ordinary pun.
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jeez, too simple for me to see.
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What sort of affected dialect or impediment would add the letter T to “no” or “refunds”?
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bensondonald: A punster one.
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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.
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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.
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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?”
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Xine Fury (7): I thought both yours and the comic were funny. Yours sounds like it came from a Robert Asprin story.
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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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