Slight Thought Required: I'm posting just the first panel because that's all that's needed.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I'm posting just the first panel because that's all that's needed.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

kvanhook Loc: Oriental, NC

She's right. "Nothing" does not rhyme with "orange". Wise woman.

Rab-Eye Loc: Indiana

😂😂😂

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

kvanhook wrote:

She's right. "Nothing" does not rhyme with "orange". Wise woman.

To be absolutely grammatically correct, the two key words should have been in either italics or quotation marks. Still, it was clever.

alexol

jerryc41 wrote:

To be absolutely grammatically correct, the two key words should have been in either italics or quotation marks. Still, it was clever.

Then it wouldn't have worked.

It always cracks me up - here in the US we aren't very good at puns or witticisms, so anything like a pun has to be underlined three times, in bold and in a different font to ensure people see it.

I remember posting my avatar and someone commented that I'd cut the bottom off, and there was almost a competition to guess what it might have said.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

alexol wrote:

Then it wouldn't have worked.

It always cracks me up - here in the US we aren't very good at puns or witticisms, so anything like a pun has to be underlined three times, in bold and in a different font to ensure people see it.

I remember posting my avatar and someone commented that I'd cut the bottom off, and there was almost a competition to guess what it might have said.

If it has to be explained, it misses most of the point.

Remember the comedian Myron Cohen? "Take my wife ... please!" That could be followed by an explanation that would ruin it.

For example, if Myron had followed that by saying, "Take my wife" usually implies that I will be talking about my wife. In this case, I meant it literally. She is so awful that I wish someone would take her away." - that would ruin the joke.

scoundrel Loc: Wytheville VA

alexol wrote:

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I remember posting my avatar and someone commented that I'd cut the bottom off, and there was almost a competition to guess what it might have said.

I like puns and show proper appreciation of them by groaning, as recommended by the late Dr. Isaac Asimov.

I also like puzzles, as is the top fragment of the (presumably) final line of text, and I am reasonably sure I have figured it out, though I wouldn't have bothered if you hadn't mentioned it.

RiJoRi Loc: Sandy Ridge, NC

People who try to rhyme with orange
Really belong in the poetic fringe
Just the thought of it makes me ca-ringe!

🤮

Horseart Loc: Alabama

That's funny!!!!

TheShoe Loc: Lacey, WA

I thought it was a great rhyming pair.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

RiJoRi wrote:

People who try to rhyme with orange
Really belong in the poetic fringe
Just the thought of it makes me ca-ringe!

🤮

Why is an orange called an orange? It's actually the other way around.

In English, the colour orange is named after the appearance of the ripe orange fruit. The word comes from the Old French: orange, from the old term for the fruit, pomme d'orange.

Burtzy Loc: Bronx N.Y. & Simi Valley, CA

jerryc41 wrote:

If it has to be explained, it misses most of the point.

Remember the comedian Myron Cohen? "Take my wife ... please!" That could be followed by an explanation that would ruin it.

For example, if Myron had followed that by saying, "Take my wife" usually implies that I will be talking about my wife. In this case, I meant it literally. She is so awful that I wish someone would take her away." - that would ruin the joke.

Not Myron Cohen. It was Henny Youngman. Myron said (among many others) "We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops."

nervous2 Loc: Provo, Utah

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Burtzy wrote:

Not Myron Cohen. It was Henny Youngman. Myron said (among many others) "We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops."

Ah, yes! Myron Cohen always carried a violin, and he would occasionally raise it to his shoulder, but then put it back down and continue talking.

Remember Senior Wences? He was funny.