How to Make Puns?

BULLETED LIST?

• learn synonyms?

• expand your vocabulary?

• learn to associate words with one another?

• WHAT COULD IT MEAN?

• practice the literary methods you learnt as a youth?

• you know, rhymes and alliteration?

• "list" above should have been plural?

• learn to simplify your sentences?

• read this because it's cool?

• realize that two separate words can have as many degrees of separation as you like suffice that they fit concisely together in as few sentences as possible, ideally one?

I GET IT NOW!

The key to a pun is to use a poetry technique in regular conversation. Ideally, one that doesn't require that you switch to a different style of conversation. (If you go all "thou" on your bestest friend in the whole wide world, he and/or she will think you're quoting  Shakespeare.)

Just talk as if you're pointing out a coincidence. The thing is that you're generating the coincidence. Holy cow whoa! That sounds tricky! But it really isn't that much, actually!

As you're walking around doing your daily business (HAHA NOT LIKE THAT), mentally tie words and ideas together. Like if you spy a cat, mentally think "feline" and also "dog" because synonyms and antonyms are useful in puns.

Check it out! I just thought of a hypothetical pun situation. Like let's say that you see a dog running in some direction. Then you might say that it's potentially making a "feline beeline". See? Easy! That's just synonyms and antonyms using nouns and verbs. And a simple rhyme.

BUT WAIT! you say.

SIR!

THAT'S LAME!

You'd be right! There's no reason for others to assume that this dog is chasing after a cat rather than a delicious cookie. So you'll have to convince them of it!

There are two sources of music blaring in my ears right now, so I'm not in a position to think about how to do that. I was reading through the Dinosaur Comics archives earlier, and I encountered a concept called Plurium Interrogationem. (click the link to learn it, silly!) So try replacing "question" with "pun". Like phrase the statement in a manner that implies that dogs chase after cats, or something.

SIR! IT'S STILL LAME!

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