Dorks Among Us 2016-3-31

[Opus the Poet]

And the pun vault just imploded.
Linky- http://wapsisquare.com/comic/dorks-among-us/

[AmriloJim]

http://wapsisquare.com/comic/dorks-among-us/

Imploded? More like collapsed into a black hole.

[jwhouk]

Pun you very much.

[AmriloJim]

You know she's doing that on porpoise.

(Yup... hadda grab the obvious one.)

[Dave]

Are we allowed to break the Fourth Wall from the outside, and hand the Pun Jar in to those two for a contribution?

Each of them ought to put in at least a fin for a fine.

[Atomic]

Obligatory --> Wet Dream by Kip Addotta.

[AnotherFairportfan]

Somebody hold their heads under water for a while.

[GlytchMeister]

*VORP*
A hooded youth appeared before Dave and grabbed him roughly by the arm.
"Wha? Where'd you com-"
"There's no time to explain," *VORP* "...But now there is. Sorry for the home invasion, Caretaker sir, but I couldn't get a lock on you without making myself an anchor for the targeting system. Interversal VORPs are tough enough without having to dodge puns the size of Cape Cod. Seriously, in the Pun Jar, them bastards wreak havoc on quantum targeting."
"Uh..."
"Oh!" The hooded young man let go of Dave and dusted him off. "My bad. Seems Pablo went and had a couple of his characters unleash some rapid-fire puns. Usually, the Pun Jar only gets indirect interference from the Wapsiverse through the forumites, so a pun straight from the comic tends to overload the Higgs field a little bit. One doesn't do much, just speeds up time a mite for a moment, but a big spew like that? Yeah..." The hooded kid beckoned toward a screen, which was displaying what appeared to be a multi-dimensional black hole. "It's gonna take her a while to sort out that glitch." The hooded man flashed a mischievous lopsided half-smile at Dave. "Vanilla Coke while you wait?"

[Dave]

You'll probably consider it blasphemy, Glytch, but do you have it in Diet?

[DilyV]

Awwwww... darn... you beat me to the wet dream song reference... hehehee I love nautical puns!!!

[GlytchMeister]

"Well, not in nearly as great supply, but I suppose I could... Yeah, there it is," *VORP* "...Nice 'n' frosty for ya."
"Ah, perfect!"
Glytch scoffed. "Diet ain't even in the same town as perfect, but whatever floats yer boat."
The two oddballs settled into the seats of the Vimana transport cruiser and awaited the re-configuration of the Pun Jar, Dave sipping diet (ugh) Vanilla Coke from a Ball mason jar and Glytch swigging the good stuff from his endless bottle.

[lake_wrangler]

My brother used to say:

"Cétacé, dit la baleine, et elle se cachalot."


I'll let you guys work it out...

[GlytchMeister]

...google translate doesn't get it: "Cetacean, said the whale, sperm whale and it"

Thus, neither do I.

[Sgt. Howard]

...google translate doesn't get it: "Cetacean, said the whale, sperm whale and it"

Thus, neither do I.

Roughly translated; "The only difference between a stovepipe is the more you polish it, it gets..."

[lake_wrangler]

...google translate doesn't get it: "Cetacean, said the whale, sperm whale and it"

Thus, neither do I.

Roughly translated; "The only difference between a stovepipe is the more you polish it, it gets..."

Cétacé = Cetacean
Cétacé sounds like "C'est assez"
C'est assez = That's enough

cachalot = sperm whale
cachalot sounds like "cache à l'eau"
"cache à l'eau" = hides at (in the) water

Therefore, "Cétacé dit la baleine, et elle se cachalot" is a word play on the phrase "Cest assez, dit la baleine, et elle se cache à l'eau", meaning "That's enough, says the whale, and it hides in the water."


I have to admit, I was debating as to whether to give you guys the phrase with the marine animal terms, or the "normal" phrase, where you would have had to guess what marine animals (or whatever else) it referred to... In the end, I chose to give you guys the marine animal terms, to follow Atsali's lead, where she used the punnish terms, rather than make a correct sentence and let people guess the puns.

[illiad]

lake_wrangler: phewwww.... looks like you have to be 'living with french' for a while, to get the 'joke'...

Its the same with german... I had a german lodger, and analogue Satellite back then, with lots of german channels...
he was *always* laughing out loud, at the people on there.. he was decent enough though, to try to explain, and of course it does not translate that well!

[FreeFlier]

Well, I think it's finny . . . as long as you keep your sense of scale.

/puts an Oncorhynchus mykiss irideus fingerling in the pun jar/

--FreeFlier

[Sgt. Howard]

This stuf is here strictly for the Halibut... to which I say, "Ah-Baloney!"

[Dave]

They only need one more female character to join them, and they could hold a "Shakespeare on the Beach" festival. They could do a good impression of the Three Witches:

Atsali: "Macbeth, Thane of chowder."
Nadette: "Macbeth, Thane of clams."
Euryale: "Macbeth, who would be kingfish."

Or maybe they could put on "The Threepennny Opera", with its lead character Knife the Mackerel.

[oldmanmickey]

at lest they seem to be having a whale of a good time and nothing they say seems the lest bit fishy to me