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OT: WTF does "no pun intended" mean?

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Devast8or

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Oct 31, 2000, 9:11:36 AM10/31/00
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I've seen it a lot of times but the heck is it?

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Devast8or


Brian Mogensen

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Oct 31, 2000, 9:24:05 AM10/31/00
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Devast8or wrote:

Well a pun is when you use a certain term for saying something. Like if
you say to a Fire Sorceress: "You're fired" thats a bad pun.
Or when you meet an impotent friend and say "What's up!" Still a pun but
a more concealed way of making a pun.
So when you write something and find out you used a pun you say "No pun
intended!" so ppl will know you didn't do it on purpose.
If you mean for ppl to understand that you meant to use a pun in that
excact situation, you say Pun intended. That way even ppl who dsidn't
catch it the first time will read back and find it.

Or in danish: Ordspil

Brian

Devast8or

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Oct 31, 2000, 12:23:45 PM10/31/00
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Tak Brian :)

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Nippo

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Oct 31, 2000, 3:43:50 PM10/31/00
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Devast8or wrote:
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> I've seen it a lot of times but the heck is it?

pun = ordspill.

Gabe Morris

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Oct 31, 2000, 6:26:14 PM10/31/00
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yep just look at headlines in the papers


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Magicalist

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Nov 1, 2000, 1:57:08 AM11/1/00
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It means the pun is intended and a laugh is expected.

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