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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Obama's Elf: The Worst Pun Of All Time?
A man named Mark Liberman who runs the Language Log blog out of UPenn posted this YouTube video yesterday and begged the question is this the "worst pun of all time?"
The answer is almost certainly yes, yes this is the worst pun of all time. I tried to resist putting this up, but it's just so adorable/ridiculous that I folded.
Just pulling an answer out of my hat, it seems likely that if it is detecting a tumor by smell, the odor might be stronger where the tumor actually is.
Amych mentioned chemical markers on the breath, so I was assuming that's where the smell was coming from.
That may be the most magnificient pun in history.
Amych mentioned chemical markers on the breath, so I was assuming that's where the smell was coming from.
That's what I was thinking. A quick google turned up a story about dogs being able to smell skin cancer, but I dunno about the smell of a lung cancer tumor being able to penetrate the walls of the chest cavity.
Is that really a pun? Or just a mondegreen?
ETA: It's funny regardless.
Bluetooth Bracelet discreetly vibrates, shows caller ID info
In a meeting and your phone starts vibrating? Discreetly check this vibrating Bluetooth Bracelet on your wrist, and you'll know who's calling. This one takes that old idea of a vibrating Bluetooth bracelet and goes a crucial step further: It shows you caller ID info.
Is that really a pun? Or just a mondegreen?
Yeah, I don't get what it's supposed to be a pun on?
Audio pareidolia rather than a pun.
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Actually, my wife thinks Geithner looks like a Keebler Elf, so the Elf clip was especially musing.
Obama's Elf=All by myself? If not, I'm out. but they're supposed to let me play. This America, man.
And honestly, the baby/wedding shower thing can get ooky too. Because as much as we all like to think we're not in seventh grade, the fact is that some people will draw a lot more attention, contributions, etc. and it's way too much middle school popularity contest to be comfortable in the workplace.
A thousand times YES.