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   big G 3469 said, 2 months ago

   well at least they’re not “Jelly(fish)” Roll Morton’s Jellyfish!

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   avarner said, 2 months ago

   I don’t get it ?? And I looked up types of Jellyfish….

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   Ash said, 2 months ago

   Uncultured hippies.

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   Fortran said, 2 months ago

   @avarner: A common species (well, order) of jellyfish are box jellyfish: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_jellyfish

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   jakebb2 said, 2 months ago

   Thanks, Fortran. My ignorance has been fought today!

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   phanchem09 said, 2 months ago

   Cousins, no doubt, of the more popular juicebach’s jellyfish…

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   LibrarianInTraining said, 2 months ago

   Hehehehe. It’s a pun. I love puns!

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   Ushindi said, 2 months ago

   Another winner, Scott.

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   StradMan37 said, 2 months ago

   Oh, Bach’s Jellyfish ain’t nuttin’ compared to

   SCHUBERT’S SEAL SHARKS!!!

   …..not to mention

   RACHMANINOFF’S STING RAYS!!!!!

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    jtpozenel said, 2 months ago

    Thanks Fortran. I knew about box jellyfish but for some reason it just didn’t register. Saturday I guess.

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    eardroppings said, 2 months ago

    This does not work for me.

    Puns only work well when the word your punning is a word the majority of people are familiar with. Otherwise, it almost feels like the word you’re reading is made up.

    For example,

    Picture two people talking on the phone. The guy is normal looking. The girl is real homely.

    Say the caption is:
    “When Bob talked to Mary on the phone he was excited to hear her talk all about her “viraginity”.”

    Now, this cartoon is funny only IF you’ve heard and know what the word “viraginity” means If you don’t know what it means, the whole joke falls flat.

    Now, imagine the picture above again. If you know that “viraginity” means “masculine qualities in a woman”, the joke becomes funny. The guy, Bob, is getting excited, unknowingly, about a girl who looks like a guy.

    Bob thought Mary was talking about her “virginity”, but she was talking about how she looked like a guy viraginity”.

    Of course, explaining a joke, in and of itself, kills it. If you knew what viraginity” meant to begin with, the joke would have flowed and been funny frmo the getgo. It isn’t funny for you because you probably didn’t know what “viraginity” means. Well, now you do because I told you.

    The “Bach” Jellyfish fell flat because, well, most people have never heard of it. Readers probably assumed it was a type of jellyfish, but you’re left a bit uncertain and that uncertainty takes the zing out of the joke.

    I like to read cartoons that use puns using words that have common usage and are almost universally understood..

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    fredbuhl said, 2 months ago

    I guess you’ll re-fugue to listen.

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    CoBass said, 2 months ago

    @Fortran I want to add my thanks as well.

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    HolySmoke said, 2 months ago

    Interesting about the puns. I hadn’t thought about it like that.
    StradMan37Genius_badge LOL!

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    chromosome said, 2 months ago

    I’ll go pack my Bach’s Lunch for tomorrow…

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    lfanterickson said, 2 months ago

    I love the wigs! I’m glad for the explanation, but don’t over-analyze.

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    avarner said, 2 months ago

    Thanks for the explaination Fortran!

    Now I’m smarter than I was yesterday……

    I prefer simpler puns though.

    Like: ” A termite walks into a bar & asks “Is the bar tender here?” ”

    Eardroppings: The “viraginity” pun was doubly obscure. When you look up “viraginity” it says: “the qualities of a virago” Then you have to look virago up…….

    And my spell checker is flagging viraginity. Even Microsoft never heard if it, I guess….

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    deanFROMdenver said, 2 months ago

    ha ha!

    eardroppings/ calvinandquestionamark is busted!

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    terrencio said, 2 months ago

    That’s some good detective work.

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    Karen345 said, 2 months ago

    Ooo. That’s pretty incriminating. I think gocomics should kick off both accounts. That’s an obvious fraud. You could check the ISP number and block it and get a general city location.