So yesterday my fiancee went to pick up her dress from alterations. Apparently while they were there her and the maid of honor had a little "test run" to make sure they could get her into the dress quickly and easily. She said it would definitely not be a problem, maybe 5 minutes, tops.
When presented with this information, without even thinking, I responded thusly:
So yesterday my fiancee went to pick up her dress from alterations. Apparently while they were there her and the maid of honor had a little "test run" to make sure they could get her into the dress quickly and easily. She said it would definitely not be a problem, maybe 5 minutes, tops.
When presented with this information, without even thinking, I responded thusly:
So yesterday my fiancee went to pick up her dress from alterations. Apparently while they were there her and the maid of honor had a little "test run" to make sure they could get her into the dress quickly and easily. She said it would definitely not be a problem, maybe 5 minutes, tops.
When presented with this information, without even thinking, I responded thusly:
So I guess you guys had a little dress rehearsal?
But isn't that kind of a pretty literal use of the term 'dress rehearsal' though?
So yesterday my fiancee went to pick up her dress from alterations. Apparently while they were there her and the maid of honor had a little "test run" to make sure they could get her into the dress quickly and easily. She said it would definitely not be a problem, maybe 5 minutes, tops.
When presented with this information, without even thinking, I responded thusly:
So I guess you guys had a little dress rehearsal?
But isn't that kind of a pretty literal use of the term 'dress rehearsal' though?
Typically you're not rehearsing the ability to put on the actual costumes, you're rehearsing for a show or something in them
So yesterday my fiancee went to pick up her dress from alterations. Apparently while they were there her and the maid of honor had a little "test run" to make sure they could get her into the dress quickly and easily. She said it would definitely not be a problem, maybe 5 minutes, tops.
When presented with this information, without even thinking, I responded thusly:
So I guess you guys had a little dress rehearsal?
But isn't that kind of a pretty literal use of the term 'dress rehearsal' though?
Typically you're not rehearsing the ability to put on the actual costumes, you're rehearsing for a show or something in them
Yeah, I know. Dress rehearsal refers to a full run-through of the play (or wedding) with all parties in full dress without stop or interruption, etc. But the word "dress" in "dress rehearsal" does refer to the exact thing she was doing, i.e. getting into costume.
I took a quick poll of nearby friends whether it constitutes an actual pun and the verdict is 2 say no and 5 say yes, so I'll let him have it. ;-)
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So yesterday my fiancee went to pick up her dress from alterations. Apparently while they were there her and the maid of honor had a little "test run" to make sure they could get her into the dress quickly and easily. She said it would definitely not be a problem, maybe 5 minutes, tops.
When presented with this information, without even thinking, I responded thusly:
So I guess you guys had a little dress rehearsal?
But isn't that kind of a pretty literal use of the term 'dress rehearsal' though?
Typically you're not rehearsing the ability to put on the actual costumes, you're rehearsing for a show or something in them
I mean
Depending on the show, part of that can definitely be about the ability to quickly change costumes
I've had numerous shows in which I have to change costumes/makeup in less than five minutes
And that dress rehearsal is real damn important there
So yesterday my fiancee went to pick up her dress from alterations. Apparently while they were there her and the maid of honor had a little "test run" to make sure they could get her into the dress quickly and easily. She said it would definitely not be a problem, maybe 5 minutes, tops.
When presented with this information, without even thinking, I responded thusly:
So I guess you guys had a little dress rehearsal?
But isn't that kind of a pretty literal use of the term 'dress rehearsal' though?
So yesterday my fiancee went to pick up her dress from alterations. Apparently while they were there her and the maid of honor had a little "test run" to make sure they could get her into the dress quickly and easily. She said it would definitely not be a problem, maybe 5 minutes, tops.
When presented with this information, without even thinking, I responded thusly:
So I guess you guys had a little dress rehearsal?
But isn't that kind of a pretty literal use of the term 'dress rehearsal' though?
Nah, I don't think it was.
I mean, I guess it depends on how you look at it. On one hand "dress rehearsal" is a discrete lexical unit (i.e. is more than the sum of its parts) that means a particular thing. So the joke is that the pun splits it into its constituent words, then changes the meaning of one of them so that it doesn't mean so much "dress", i.e. "to put on clothes", but instead means THE dress, i.e. the bridal dress.
But another way of looking at it is that, bridal dress or not, she was just putting on clothes, which is what "to dress" refers to, so looking at it in just THAT way makes it seem like either not a pun or a very weak one.
It would be like if one person walked into a practice for a cooking contest and said, "I guess this is a cook rehearsal." And then another person walked into a room where a bunch of chefs were trying on their chef hats and said, "I guess this is a cook rehearsal."
Like, there is a level where it's a pun and a level where it is just describing the literal thing that is happening.
*explaining jokes*
*analyzing jokes*
*popular at parties*
My research team is building a joke that can make a person chuckle, smile, AND laugh.
STAND BACK! I'M DOING JOKE SCIENCE!
"Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!"
This isn't a joke, per se, but it makes me laugh
When I took German in High School, we learned the ABC's
And the final line to the German ABCs, rather than "Now I know my ABCs, next time won't you sing with me?" was "Kann nicht lernen das ABC?"
Which, roughly translated to English, means: "Can't you learn the ABCs?"
It's so German!
Which is an unusual deviation from Germany's usual flavor of children's entertainment, which tends to include such themes as:
--Children being mauled/eaten by terrible beasts
--Children being dismembered or having appendages chopped off
--Children being ground into powder, baked into bread, and then fed to ducks
--AND MORE
To be a truly German children's song, I feel it should have to end with something like, "Now I learned my ABC's, you should too if you don't want to be sawed in half and fed to a bear."
My research team is building a joke that can make a person chuckle, smile, AND laugh.
STAND BACK! I'M DOING JOKE SCIENCE!
"Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!"
This isn't a joke, per se, but it makes me laugh
When I took German in High School, we learned the ABC's
And the final line to the German ABCs, rather than "Now I know my ABCs, next time won't you sing with me?" was "Kann nicht lernen das ABC?"
Which, roughly translated to English, means: "Can't you learn the ABCs?"
It's so German!
Which is an unusual deviation from Germany's usual flavor of children's entertainment, which tends to include such themes as:
--Children being mauled/eaten by terrible beasts
--Children being dismembered or having appendages chopped off
--Children being ground into powder, baked into bread, and then fed to ducks
--AND MORE
To be a truly German children's song, I feel it should have to end with something like, "Now I learned my ABC's, you should too if you don't want to be sawed in half and fed to a bear."
I didn't go there because I didn't want to Krampus their style.
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You lot keep dropping these terrible puns and I'll be forced to get my boomstick and warm up the chainsaw...
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It's hard to understand how a cemetery raised its burial cost and blamed it on the cost of living.
No I ent.
It's all that money inflating and floating into the upper atmosphere.
That's almost good. It's like a line Demetri Martin came up with that didn't quite make the cut to be included in his routine.
When presented with this information, without even thinking, I responded thusly:
And she's still marrying you?
But isn't that kind of a pretty literal use of the term 'dress rehearsal' though?
Typically you're not rehearsing the ability to put on the actual costumes, you're rehearsing for a show or something in them
Yeah, I know. Dress rehearsal refers to a full run-through of the play (or wedding) with all parties in full dress without stop or interruption, etc. But the word "dress" in "dress rehearsal" does refer to the exact thing she was doing, i.e. getting into costume.
I took a quick poll of nearby friends whether it constitutes an actual pun and the verdict is 2 say no and 5 say yes, so I'll let him have it. ;-)
I mean
Depending on the show, part of that can definitely be about the ability to quickly change costumes
I've had numerous shows in which I have to change costumes/makeup in less than five minutes
And that dress rehearsal is real damn important there
Nah, I don't think it was.
I mean, I guess it depends on how you look at it. On one hand "dress rehearsal" is a discrete lexical unit (i.e. is more than the sum of its parts) that means a particular thing. So the joke is that the pun splits it into its constituent words, then changes the meaning of one of them so that it doesn't mean so much "dress", i.e. "to put on clothes", but instead means THE dress, i.e. the bridal dress.
But another way of looking at it is that, bridal dress or not, she was just putting on clothes, which is what "to dress" refers to, so looking at it in just THAT way makes it seem like either not a pun or a very weak one.
It would be like if one person walked into a practice for a cooking contest and said, "I guess this is a cook rehearsal." And then another person walked into a room where a bunch of chefs were trying on their chef hats and said, "I guess this is a cook rehearsal."
Like, there is a level where it's a pun and a level where it is just describing the literal thing that is happening.
*explaining jokes*
*analyzing jokes*
*popular at parties*
Because I did emphasize dress.
I hope that means we'll need another couple of pages to completely analyze this situation.
Only puns.
But even then, only semantically.
Then it's a joke, and who cares.
STAND BACK! I'M DOING JOKE SCIENCE!
"Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!"
No one is listening until you make a mistake.
The calendar writer's bitterness about his career choice is really starting to take its toll.
Apt statement. I'd wager none of us would ever have paid a lick of attention to anything the calendar writer wrote until he made this calendar.
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?! YOU MONSTER!
Just injected a little more chaos into the world.
https://youtu.be/U_eZmEiyTo0?t=4m
This isn't a joke, per se, but it makes me laugh
When I took German in High School, we learned the ABC's
And the final line to the German ABCs, rather than "Now I know my ABCs, next time won't you sing with me?" was "Kann nicht lernen das ABC?"
Which, roughly translated to English, means: "Can't you learn the ABCs?"
It's so German!
Which is an unusual deviation from Germany's usual flavor of children's entertainment, which tends to include such themes as:
--Children being mauled/eaten by terrible beasts
--Children being dismembered or having appendages chopped off
--Children being ground into powder, baked into bread, and then fed to ducks
--AND MORE
To be a truly German children's song, I feel it should have to end with something like, "Now I learned my ABC's, you should too if you don't want to be sawed in half and fed to a bear."
I didn't go there because I didn't want to Krampus their style.
Now that gave me the pun groans. A sure sign of pun success.
I never groan at puns. I'm too fond of pun-curation to groan at puns of any stripe, punctuation included.
I used to have a handle on life, but it broke.
Oct 4 and on are just blank pages.
I...I cant be sure anymore...