Yeah, there’s no excuse for this, other than “I’ve had ten beers and this one occurred to me. I have no filter on making comics that have horrible puns.”
So a bunch of our friends and pals and homies are hitting Burning Flipside as of today. It’s a regional here, near Austin. And we ain’t going. Why?
Mel and I are burners. And we can’t hit this burn because we got shit to do. Project A-Kon 25 is coming up, and we’re having to save our cash to make this convention happen. No time for us to run to the woods with a couple thousand freaks to listen to music and dance and cavort and get hammered and have a good time. Nay, we shall stay home while you miserable sons of bitches get bit by bugs and snakes and deal with the heat in Texas and sudden rainstorms and….
Dammit, we wish we COULD go. But we can’t. Our next burn will Myschievia 2014. Until then, we have to live vicariously through our burner family, and go be rock stars at A-Kon and Comic Con San Diego and Animefest and make gobs of cash. Pity us.
“Stop it or I’ll lock you in a box.”
i have been here since day one, this is the funniest bit you’ve done to date…
not as good as ‘log sin cos tan’ over at 2L, but it shows there is hope for you… ;p;p;p *
I’m an invertebrate punster,, I’m spinelessly unable to resist a pun!
You’ll be at Mischievia while I’m at Playa del Fuego.
Gun puns.
I want a gun that shoots puns. While not as good as a real gun, it can be quite effective in certain situations. It can hit a funny bone, damage an ego, or wound a sense of pride. But we know the pun gun will soon be on a list of bans, because it can definitely hurt a politician’s feelings. Alas, cannot be banned since it’s protected by the 2nd and 1st amendment. Comes in the DiFire, the Chuck Boomer, and the Doomberg (ok, ‘Doomberg’ actually make a great evil villain name, kinda like Gachnar from that one Buffy episode). Can be loaded with high-power Snark rounds, less-lethal Irony, or HL round (aka: the Mencken).
Pun gun get banned faster than real gun – “Pun guns kill political careers,” they’ll say. :p
So, I’m guessing that one who wields a pun gun would be referred to as a “punter”…?
😛
For some reason, I thought it might have a different meaning – or at least in England…?
Only the pun police can have the pun guns!
Re “…no excuse for this shit”:
Well said.
I’d even go so far as to lobby for the revision of the word “excuse”, so that it would only be allowed as a VERB – never as a NOUN.
As a NOUN, it contains the implicit, unspoken assumption that we’ll forgive (or at least, agree).
This bears expanding upon:
COMPREHENSION is never synonymous with AGREEMENT.
True, everything has a REASON for why it happens,
& this reason may become known to us (or not – let’s not assume).
But once we understand this reason, we can then choose to EXCUSE (=”verb”) them.
Properly speaking, forgiveness/agreement is always a separate action, & never a forgone conclusion.
I’m sure that some would prefer to gloss over that detail, in the hopes of fast-talking somebody into agreeing with them.
Sorry for the “Soapbox Rant”.
I’ll climb down & shut up now.
I don’t know if that even counts as a pun.
That “joke” was bad and you should feel bad.
Heeee… If the only way to get punning guns out of you is to get you drunk, remind me to buy you a few cases of your favorite if I’m ever in town.
I don’t see the problem, these comics are funny. In a “so bad, it is good” way.
Agreed. It made me laugh.
Quite a dichotomy you’ve got there. Vicariously burning capitalist social commentary-through-multiple-subjects art folks. (don’t go changing)
I also like the dichotomy. On one hand you’ve got puns and ridiculing common anti-gun ideas and politicans while on the other hand you have got an interesting story to follow that is also funny.
Updater fail. 🙁