Fall Flat

kleptomania

stealing

dad joke

being literal

bird

toucan

Cinderella

pick-up line

one-liner

collective noun

mugger

punning

mugging

brain

trivia

space

Star Trek

is a form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire.

Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire

is a kind of wordplay which, viewed through a queer lens, might be re-magined as homoerotic on account of its being homophonic.

Sedgwick drew on the work of literary critic Christopher Craft to argue that both puns and rhymes might be re-imagined as 'homoerotic because homophonic'... citing literary critic Jonathan Dollimore, Sedgwick suggests that grammatical inversion might have an equally intimate relation to sexual inversion... she suggested that readers may want to 'sensitise' themselves to 'potentially queer' rhythms of certain grammatical, syntactical, rhetorical, and generic sentence structures... scenes of childhood spanking were eroticised, and associated with two-beat lines and lyric as a genre... enjambment (continuing a thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break) had potentially queer erotic implications... finally, while thirteen-line poems allude to the sonnet form, by rejecting the final rhyming couplet it was possible to 'resist the heterosexual couple as a paradigm', suggesting instead the potential masturbatory pleasures of solitude.[14]' (wiki)

is despicable in itself but it can also serve as the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention in social criticism.

A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a witty view. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram. Karl Kraus

is establishing the powers of words rather than defining things.

establishing the powers of words rather than defining things.

is, in the form of a master punner, not trivial, but quadrivial.

My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial. James Joyce

is a high crime. Hanging is too good for the man who makes puns. He should be drawn and quoted.

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns... he should be drawn and quoted. Fred Allen

 brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word whereas wit brings two very different real objects under one concept.

Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word. Arthur Schopenhauer

1s 2oodness is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. Edgar Allan Poe

pun, n.All

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