36 Comments on “Putting These Here For Archival Purposes”

1. A pun my soul!

2. Isle ‘ave to Avalon think about this one.

3. The pun is the lowest form of humor – (famous quote from the pre-Trump era)

4. Randall Garrett defined the pun as “the odor given off by a decaying mind.” I’ll just leave that here.

5. For a second there, I thought I had been redirected to Spider Robinson’s blog.

6. apology accepted

7. Trump or Hillary? Is America Guinevere to the right or the left?

   Now allow me to speak up for my favorite form of pun: the Tom Swifty. They always feature Tom (a science fictional young hero from the 1920s), with him making a statement followed by an adverb that puns on the content of the dialogue.

   As in, “Someone forgot to pay the light bill,” Tom said darkly. Or “I’ve overslept,” Tom said belatedly.

   My favorite own coinage: “I’m going over Niagara Falls,” Tom said incandescently. Which someone topped with, “My ancestors used to rule Peru,” and so on.

8. You du Lac a lot funny here.

9. I laughed hard enough to hurt my back.
   And I do Pilates; I have a strong core.

   You stop now, JScalzi.

   :-)

10. Jeez I just got a headache. Are you gonna be an Arthur of puns now?

11. Not even going to try to compete, this is why I check in each day.

    Thanks, John, I needed the laugh!!!

12. Your pun Bors me, Scalzi.

13. No apologies necessary. :-)

14. Whilst the Election campaign piles up yet Mordred…

15. You deserve to be impaled on a lance . . . A lot!

16. ‘Kay by me if you all Galahad and make silly puns. But if Scalzi throws out any more, I just hope he Lancelot of ’em. Some of these are all right, but we really need to raise it to the n’Excalibur.

    Thank you, thank you. I’m here all knight.

17. Am I a Lohengrin here? I’ve always been Parsifal to puns.

18. BTW, some of these had me laughing so hard my heart was skipping beats. Seriously. I was wondering if I had Arimathea.

19. So very, very groan worthy

20. Mr. Scalzi, I’d like your permission to repost this blog entry (cut-and-pasted, in full, with full attribution, and a link to this page,) to a Spider Robinson-inspired Facebook group of which I am one of the admins, called “Friends of Mike Callahan.”
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    “The fun of the pun is in the tone of the groan!” — some wiseacre

21. Sure, go ahead.

22. Hah! I’m a medievalist, so, well. Thanks for the groan, Scalzi!

23. Is it worth even trying to enter the Fay? Is there any Morgaine to be gotten? There’s a Guy behind and a Galahad…

24. On second thought, let us not go to Camelot. It is a silly place.

25. How much Morgan your readers take?

26. Tristan’s Uncle, Mark the King
    Gave him an engagement ring.
    His mission was an easy thing:
    Deliver it across the waves.

    The ring was for the fair Isolde,
    Who Mark proposed to have and hold.
    With eyes of blue and hair of gold,
    Like Tristan the knight so brave.

    Tristan, Tristan
    Barely old enough to shave
    Tristan, Tristan,
    Tristan the knight so brave.

    (from Dave Keefer & Bob Ahrens’ “Tristan, the Knight So Brave”, to the obvious tune)

27. I Percival of you are incorrigible punsters. That kind of talk can get you in trouble around here; if you’re not careful you may get ridden out of town on a grail.

28. An earthquake of 3.2 magnitude was recorded yesterday with the epicenter apparently at Sam Cooke’s grave. ;-)

29. I was wondering if you were going to round to posting this here, or if you were simply going to table the whole nonsense.

30. On the uther hand, I hope you don’t find your pen draggin’.

31. These have me Roland around on the floor, but I can see that some might find them Agravaine enough to give them an Igraine.

32. Well, it is true that a straight line is the shortest distance between two puns…

33. All I have to say to all the pun wizradry is: Merlin, enough, thank you.

34. Well, it’s not the Algonquin Round Table, but there’s not point grailing against it!

35. Ah yes, Tristan’s paramour. She was my first great crush, you know. I adored her, but she couldn’t see how her career in health care by paranormal means hurt our relationship.

    *Sob* Isolde, the witch doctor, I was in love with you.

36. Sorry to ask this here, but I can’t see the tweets you posted. I can see your intro text, but not the Tweets. Is there some WP setting I need? Or is it an adblocker thing? A Mac thing?