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Leonhart4 posted...

But was that even a pun

I mean you used your name

I still feel dumb about this so I want to defend my stupidity from yesterday a bit. I knew what puns are, I just thought they had requirements that they don't.

For example, 'pungeon master' is a good pun because dungeon masters are people who have total control over things so a pungeon master would have total control over puns. The literal meaning makes sense

To steal a pun from George Carlin that I saw on Wikipedia, 'Atheism is a non-prophet institution' works because atheists don't have a prophet. It makes sense on its own, profit/prophet is just what makes it a pun.

Names that just sound like other words don't have this aspect, and I thought puns required it. 'Tiz a shame' has no literal meaning beyond being a pun because Tiz is just a name.

I'm not sure I'm explaining myself very well. I guess I just had a limited view on what constituted a pun. I thought they needed that literal meaning in addition to the similar-sounding wordplay.
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