Re: Nothing can prepare you for this

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It's not copying, it's meowmix culture.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 08-27-11 7:35 PM
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Kittens these days.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 08-27-11 7:38 PM
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I tip my hat to you, neb.

(It was clear from the first sentence and prior knowledge of you that this would be a shaggy dog story of sorts, but I couldn't figure out what the punchline would be except that it would clearly involve the word "purr".)


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 08-27-11 7:39 PM
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Very nice.


Posted by: trapnel | Link to this comment | 08-27-11 7:46 PM
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Nice. C1800?


Posted by: Mr. Blandings | Link to this comment | 08-27-11 7:55 PM
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Neb's writing can be slippery, but once and a while you get a purchase.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 08-27-11 7:58 PM
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This one must suck because I understood it.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-27-11 8:00 PM
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He's so shaggy, he isn't that shaggy.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 08-27-11 8:12 PM
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NEEDZ MOAR PLATOE.


Posted by: OPINIONATED LOLCAT | Link to this comment | 08-27-11 8:14 PM
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Speaking of cats.


Posted by: Gonerill | Link to this comment | 08-27-11 9:17 PM
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Hey, it's Fairport Convention!


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 08-27-11 9:38 PM
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Also, this is great.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 08-27-11 9:43 PM
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The trick to these is that the word or words at the basis of the pun have to be avoided during the run up. The classic is "The crowd cried 'abominable'!" where the run up carefully talks of the toreador and his antagonist and the anarchist and his device; never of bulls and bombs. So essear (3) knew that the pun here had to involve "purr" since such pains had been taken to talk round it.


Posted by: jim | Link to this comment | 08-28-11 6:12 AM
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Perfect.


Posted by: md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 08-28-11 6:41 AM
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So essear (3) knew that the pun here had to involve "purr" since such pains had been taken to talk round it.

Well, yeah.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 08-28-11 8:32 AM
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