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OK, brace yourself, British pub headline coming. It’s a lulu.

They wrote this headline, even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious… If you say it loud enough, it always sounds precocious…. super frali… you know the rest.

You have to hand it to them, they had to really work to make a pun headline that intricate and horrible. This is the direct result of decades of really horrible tortured British pun headlines, a legacy of sprained constructions and ruptured rhymes all coming to horrible fruition in this one gem of a beaut of a nightmare.

Even as a lover of puns, I had to wince.

But it was, at least partly, a wince of admiration.

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I’m the Batcan.

This probably qualifies under “stupid but funny”. You almost feel bad for laughing so hard, but there’s just something about certain kinds of goofy humour that just cut right through our intellectual defenses and make us laugh like ninnies.

For me, the above graphic qualifies.

I can only assume that the liquid inside is banananananana flavoured.

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There’s a great many examples of this kind of visual rebus-style pun out there, but I’ve not come across another that is as simple, elegant, and perfect as this one.

It would make a great illustration in a Philosophy 101 or Logic 101 textbook.

It’s also good for checking for a certain sense of humour. If you find it funny, you have a certain sophistication of your sense of irony likes its absurdity stark and logical.

Like one of my favorite moments on Futurama, when they are at a horse race and the racer announces “That race was so close, it’s going to be a quantum finish!” And Fry tears up his ticket and complains “no fair! You changed the outcome by observing it!”

Now that’s comedy. NERD comedy. All my nerdy friends in the house, say YO!

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Only in this way can we be sure we have enough metal for generations to come.

Please do your part to make sure our children do not have to face the horror of a future… without metal.

Because that would be lame.

Dog lame. Totally lame. Swimming in a vast sea of lame-osity.

Do it…. for the children.

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The idea for this strip and the joke in the first panel are the work of my phenomenally fabulous best friend, Felicity Walker.

She and I have goofy conversations like this all the time.

It’s part of what makes us so darn special!

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The “Cro-Magnon, P.I.” joke in the middle panel is here courtesy my good friend, Felicity.

Big things coming up. Well one big thing.

Well, a series of the same big thing. Whatever.

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Wow, what a bitch.

To those who hate puns, I offer my most insincere apologies.

To those who just plain don’t get it, try reading the strip aloud, and if that doesn’t work, you’ve probably never heard the phrase being punned and can therefore congratulate yourself on having lived a clean and healthy life.