Thursday, August 25, 2011

More on Visual Puns ... or is that Moron Visual Puns???

Sorry for the very bad joke. I promise to leave all future punning to Avi Kirshner and other professionals.

Dylan has sent me an entire site-worth of visual puns. I will post four examples of these, but if you want to check out the site itself, here's the link:

http://www.urlesque.com/2010/04/20/18-goofy-and-hilarious-visual-puns

HOWEVER, it is my contention that these puns are NOT exactly the same type of pun as the two visual puns on our previous visual pun post. Therefore, my next challenge to you is to see whether you can successfully distinguish and articulate the difference. Publish your answer as a comment to this post.




















Clues:
Clue #1: "Now is the winter of our discontent..." (from Shakespeare's Richard III)
Clue #2: What did the announcer say about the Von Hindenburg?


1 comment:

Unknown said...

I think there are many similarities and many differences between the common pun that you'll hear Avi making, and the visual puns that we've been looking at. The puns we are most familiar with involve manipulation of words to fit into a situation that one word with two meanings can exploit. When there is a word that can mean two or more things, you need to find a situation that could appeal to both of the meanings. for example, telling an upset and broken slinky that he looks bent out of shape, has one object- a broken, upset slinky- and by using the words bent out of shape, you can be referencing his sadness or his disfigurement. Essentially the pun is taking two completely different ideas and uniting them through one word that, in the situation, can apply to the same object. Similarly, a visual pun takes two very unlike subjects and relates them comically due to something they may have in common visually. Visual puns can also involve a play on words, but even then the visual aspect is always part of the connection between the unlike subjects. Whereas in a common pun, there is a twofold connection established solely on the wording.