Why are puns considered the lowest form of humor?

And the ones that don't care for it are Yumerless.

Then there is the story of how Yuma got its name.

The last two words of the dying cowboy who was shot full of arrows by the Comanche chief.

You ma.......

My favorite, of course, is this one:

Did you hear about the guy who found out he could make his pet dolphins live forever by feeding them seagulls? He went out to catch as many as he could find, but on his way home he found his path blocked by an old, sleeping, toothless lion that had wandered off from the zoo. Our intrepid adventurer bravely stepped over the snoozing beast and was promptly arrested. The charge?

Transporting gulls across a staid lion for immortal porpoises.

Groan and groan and groan and groan and groan.

Very happily.

Wow!!! Quadruple is even better than triple.

So, puns may not be the leaven of language but the spice..
and I gas we can leaven it at that.

Someone recently sent me a list of puns -- this was one of my favorites:

There were three Indian squaws. One slept on a deer skin, one slept on an elk skin, and the third slept on a hippopotamus skin. All three became pregnant, and the first two each had a baby boy. The one who slept on the hippopotamus skin had twin boys. This goes to prove that the squaw of the hippopotamus is equal to the sons of the squaws of the other two hides.

Denis Norden and Frank Muir were two scriptwriters and raconteurs who used to keep us amused on radio.
They told a long, rambling shaggy-dog story about an eskimo who lit a cooking fire in his canoe, which then sank.

Proving that you can't have your kayak and heat it.

Fortunately all of you are typing on keyboards.

Because writing with a broken pencil is pointless...

<groan> A point well-taken! Shakespeare would be proud of you.

Well, I strike quickly, being moved.

I think you've hit on something, Francis. You strike me as funny.

While I keep tapping these keys, hoping to find a chord.

I didnt know that puns were considered the lowest form of humor..

Meanwhile, in the caption the photo thread..

picture











pun (by malek):

Jim thought he had the flu until his Doc told him that it was just a bad head gold.

That's because they are not at all punny.

Can we just have a little compassion and punderstanding here, folks?

No, I don't think so, Noddy. I mean everyone knows puns are "bad humour" & the joker is not attempting to be clever or witty. In a way the joke is (generally knowingly) at the expense of the joker him/herself. And everyone also knows they're supposed to groan & roll their eyes in response. I think they're just just a way to communicate, lighten up a situation .... Mind you, compulsive, possessed punners (punsters?) who don't know when to stop, deserve whats coming to them!

BTW, Set. Can I add to your signature line?

Perception from a perspective is reality.

You'd have to ask Bella, JL, whether or not you have the write to change it . . .

I hate it when you punsters try to engage me punning duels.