Pun and Pain

From: Rick Knight (rknight@platinum.com)
Date: Fri Jul 25 1997 - 10:49:18 MDT


     Anton Sherwood wrote:
     
     Tell me, is this funny? Is it a pun? :--
     
     R: "I'm depressed because my girlfriend is out of town."
     A: "Mine is too, probably."
     R: "Your girlfriend? Who's that?"
     A: "No idea. But whoever she is, odds are she's out of town."
     
     Rick (comic relief) responds:
     
     Not a pun. A pun is a play on words where one word or group of words
     is substituted for another. These are ritually the punch lines to
     "knock-knock" jokes.
     
     Was it funny? In a Rodney Dangerfield-esque type of way. More
     poignant (that's moving in on pain).
     
     Rick



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