Dear Dr. Babooner,
I struggle with a harmless compulsion that many others despise. I’m upfront about it and have even sought help from a bike-to-your-location therapist (The Cycle Analyst), but still they roll their eyes and find someone else to talk to whenever I enter the room simply because I’m a pun worshipper.
My wife says I have taken this too far and have limited our options because I will only buy goods and services from pun-named outlets. Why is that so wrong? Pun-based businesses need customers too.
So what if my favorite Hawaiian resort is Here Today, Gone to Maui?
My preferred oceanside bar is Rum With a View.
My favorite bodega is Juan in a Million.
I buy my plants and Fronds of the Family.
I always get a cup of coffee at Pony Espresso.
I’ll stop for a bottle of wine at Life’s a Cabernet.
I shop for furniture at Coucho Marks.There are plenty of shopping choices for me out there. I have a satisfying life and I don’t feel constrained at all. If anything, it’s a fulsome prison. But when I try to explain myself, she groans. And not in a good way.
Should I change my habits, or continue to stop at every pun shop I see?
Sincerely,
Mel Arky
I told Mel that going window shopping with him would be a pane in the glass. But that’s just one opinion.
What do you think, Dr. Babooner?
Trail Baboon 
As a beginning independent reporter on a bicycle every day, thanks. I would take a shot at a similar post but at 5:00 a.m. things are still murky, even after a three mile bike ride in fresh snow.
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welcome rico , but if you are going to start out by telling us you did a 5 am bike ride you need to understand it will take a while to have the idea groan on us
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ouch
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Good morning. Mel Arky, if you think being punny is so extremely funny, the last gaff might be on you and it might not be a pretty picture.
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mel and i got our hands on the weather man and broke both arms and both legs. now lets talk about his four casts.
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What will the forecaster forecast if he has four casts?
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Weather or not he’ll be able to walk any time soon
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Yes, VS, I think that is what the forcaster with four casts will forcast. Regarding his weather forecasts that deal with weather I say “weather he’s right or weather he’s wrong, we wouldn’t miss this weather when it’s gone”.
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RISE AND SHINE BABOONS!
Two Funny
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i’m going to my buddhist dentist this morning. he doesnt use novocain. he wants me to transcend dental medication.
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that is terrible, tim.
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terrible and beautiful
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defination of a pun
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George Takei (AKA Mr Sulu) has a fine appreciation for puns. Like him on FaceBook for puns, insights and an all around good time.
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Ooh, I’ll ask my mom later today – she may be losing memory but she’s still punny sharp!
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I’ve had amnesia for as long as I can remember!
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🙂
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There was a man who entered a local paper’s pun contest. He sent in ten different puns, in the hope that at least one of the puns would win. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did.
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Where is everybody today? Did we go on strike and nobody tell me?
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No – just trying to resurrect used puns or make up clever new ones, VS! A couple of my favorites are still “Kochroaches” and “Sons of Mitch’s”. These fit in nicely with “Frightwing”, don’t they?
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Our wordsmiths aren’t striking, they’re not smithing.
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You’re too good at this!
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My internet service has been down for most of the day up until not. That wasn’t punny.
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I am not worthy. I only pun unintentionally.
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Maybe we need a musical interlude to get things going?
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To get this going we might need some wine from that place Mel gets his, Life’s a Cabernet. Those who don’t drink could go to Teetotaler’s for tea.
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Or to Boo’s for something stronger.
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This is so dumb! My mind has gone blank. I usually am good for at least a one pun if not two, but the well seems dry today.
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It seem like you have a case of dumb de dumb pun, Renee.
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I am just a dumb punny today.
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the comic strip “Frank and Ernest” often has wonderful puns. I just can’t remember them!
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On the way home, went past Pair of Dice Pizza. Not “Pair o’ Dice”, so that you can actually have the pun for “paradise”. No, it’s Pair of Dice Pizza, with a picture of the dice on the sign. This is wrong on so many levels.
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If it’s good pizza, it works for me.
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Go there some dark night and steal the picture of the dice from the sign. The headline in the paper would read “Pair of Dice Lost”.
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Have you been inside? They have a sign pointing to the left that says, “Restrooms – this side of Pair Of Dice.”
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Well done on both of these! It’s just a take-out place, but now I am going to have to go and try it out.
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Oh, and I understand they’ve had a problem with homeless cats getting in the building, so Animal Control keeps getting these calls – “Another stray in Pair Of Dice.”
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This wins the day!!!! I doff my hat to you………..
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Say good night, Gracie.
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Good night, Gracie.
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nice close
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