Puns

I'm not going to lie, I love puns. 99% of the time they are amazing. What got me thinking about puns is that I watched the Evil Dead II today, and man-oh-man are there a lot of puns. My favorite one from the movie was when Ash had to try to keep his Deadite hand at bay he put a bucket over it and stacked some books on top. The very top most book on the stack was A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. Needless to say, I was rolling. So then I started thinking about other fantastic puns from other sources. Like the movie Face/Off existing, or practically any one-liner in a James Bond film. But what's the point of puns? Of course they're there for comedic effect, that's what makes them great, but the best ones are always the subtle ones. The small ones that you only catch after seeing them multiple times, that's when you realize how clever a good pun is. For example, Shakespeare loved puns, he used them in almost everyone one of his plays, my favorite of his being from Romeo and Juliet when Mercutio says "Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man.", the pun being that he's about to die, but if he's alive tomorrow he will be in a very solemn/sad mood. It's not exactly funny, especially not in the context, but it sure is clever. The problem with puns comes in when that one percent takes over. When the one percent runs the show people start to really loathe what's happening. Like both of those. Those puns were terrible, they barely made sense, and they were a huge stretch. The puns that fall into that one percent really are terrible. They're in your face, annoying, and not really funny. Puns like "Broken pencils are pointless" or "Jokes about German sausage are the wurst". Those are two of the dullest and worst puns I could find. That was also a terrible pun.

This pun is straight up awesome, though.