puns

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na-vidya-na-avidya:

 

sinesalvatorem:

pinkplasticpen:

 

this pun is entirely worth breaking my tumblr silence for

FROMIDABLE

As an ex-French-student, I approve

My personal favourite bilingual packaging (so far) is a brand of toilet paper that, in its description, emphasises how it’s made from recycled wood.

English: Tree-sponsible!

French: Respons-arbre!

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#our home and cherished land #language #puns #my second favourite is Dr. Bronners #I don’t speak French well enough to get the full effect on that one #but I’ve been told it captures the weirdness really well

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cosmic-llin:

little-brisk:

Y’ALL. i need your help with ds9 fic recs that are not spoilery beyond the end of s5! tumblr user @replicarters beloved of this blog is like starving and we need to help her. she especially wants kira fic and kira/dax (or kira & dax) fic and fic about dax and sisko. probably also just dax fic in general. 

i have already recommended to her @singlecrow‘s ‘malice aforethought’ one of the best ds9 stories of all time, @starstarship‘s brilliant series ‘not for money and not for food’ among others, and recommend them to you also

help us out!

I can mostly only recommend shortish fic but here are a few ideas off the top of my head:

Old Habits by @mylittleredgirl, a cute first-season Dax and Sisko story

Confident Sutures by pipistrelle, missing scenes from Invasive Procedures

Trompe L’oeil by @brinnanza, Kira/Dax loveliness set during The Way of the Warrior

The Ache in Every Song by Thistlerose – more nice early Kira/Dax

What You Will Know by @little-brisk – delicious Kira/Dax set early in canon

Rebuilding by @eponymous-rose – sweet Kira/Dax earlyish in canon

I have nothing to say regarding the actual topic, only this: what is it with people named Brin (or spelling variations thereupon) and terrible name puns? Other Brins I have encountered include “brinconvenient” and “Brynncognito”. I don’t have a pun in my username, but my blog title is “Brinens and Things”.

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#Star Trek #DS9 #recs #names #tangents #reply via reblog #puns

Shoulda Coulda Woulda

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plain-dealing-villain:

@nextworldover: There’s probably some relation between should and shall and could and can, isn’t there?

me: Yeah, and would and will.

me: I bet there’s some word in Old English that basically meant ‘counterfactual’ and was spelled or pronounced like “ould”.

@zhalaad: *makes a terrible pun and everyone’s confused what he means. It involved Old English.*

me: Wait, no, it’s not from Old English.

me: It’s from a form of English that might have happened, but probably didn’t.

me: Ould English.

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#language #puns

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sinesalvatorem:

regexkind:

killbenedictcumberbatch:

bibliotheksbewohnerin:

things that still freak me out: those sinks americans have in their kitchens that you can destroy stuff with

…. a garbage disposal?

@sinesalvatorem

Things people tag me in:

  • Mosquitoes
  • Garbage disposals
  • Terrible puns
  • Jewish rules-lawyering
  • Pro-natalist stuff

I am not sure what the general picture of my interests people have formed is, but I really like how wacky it is. My only guess is that people think what I’m into is finding halachic loopholes that will allow you to have lots of kids who grow up to kill mosquitoes by sticking them in garbage disposals. Why do we need to rid ourselves of mosquitoes? Because they cause malaria, and Leviticus 19:14 requires that we care for those with bad airs.

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #puns? #an ear/air pun is the only reason I can think of for why Leviticus 19:14