Re: Hyperbole and Stereotyping For Humor

From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2001 - 06:20:03 MST


From: Spike Jones <spike66@attglobal.net>,
>however yours is not an advisable
>way to deal with punsters, for it serves only to encourage
>them to still greater wickedness. More prudent is a gentle but
>fermi reminder, such as "We do not speak that way on this list."

Okey dok (but still funny!)

I just got it: Pun-ing must increase brain mass.

You can indicate that on your characteristic cartoon sig:

{8^D <---- 'normal' Spike

{{{8^D <---- after-a-couple-of-puns Spike

Amara

(you could start a new sub-culture of the extropians:
The Pun-ing for Increased Brain Mass Club)



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