APUN MY SOUL

Richard, in keeping with his pedantic, schoolmasterly way has a bee in his bonnet about puns and punning at present and has disparaged their use. See: HERE
I think it's due to the fact that he's never able to come up with any pun titles for his blogs.




 Some recent examples of blog names for his posts are:

Doing it for god
An atheist for a day
Just over 11 minutes ago
This challenge will end at midday tomorrow
Latest from Gold League
The battle continues
Doing it for all New Zealanders
Bass bagging spreading
Est ce que tu parles francais (sic)
Three guys
Blogs updated and comments made
No comments
 etc.

Not exactly interesting and the only one that's nearly a pun, or suggestive is 'Bass bagging spreading' .

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I looked up Wikipedia for the origin of puns and learned this:

The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use of homophonic, homographic, homonymic,  or figurative language. A pun differs from a malapropism in that a malapropism is an incorrect variation on a correct expression, while a pun involves expressions with multiple (correct or fairly reasonable) interpretations. Puns may be regarded as in-jokes or idiomatic constructions, especially as their usage and meaning are usually specific to a particular language or its culture.
Some examples of these are:

Homophonic "atheism is a non-prophet institution"

Homographic  "When asked to explain his large number of children, the pig answered simply: 'The wild oats of my sow gave us many piglets.'"

Homophonic and homographic combined "You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass."

Homonymic "Being in politics is just like playing golf: you are trapped in one bad lie after another" 

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