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    Question Why do people say "no pun intended"...

    ...when they could say punintentional?

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    Oh, Pike, you just... I mean... :<3:
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    Haha! This is fantastic and witty. ^_^
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    It works well written down but if you said it out loud it would just sound like "Pun intentional"... as if you intended the pun.

    This would be the opposite of what you were trying to say.

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    What a punny thing to point out

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    Punintential only works when written, like many has said. Of course, I do always intend puns when I use them. Only when I don't mean to, I'd probably just say "Don't mind the pun." and carry on. Saying Punintential defeats the whole purpose of not trying to include a pun in the first place.

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    because intentional puns are annoying. Unintentional puns are witty.

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    Lol, I imagine many things as I try to make you wonder why. Haha! If ever there was an ass as hot, it certainly was yours.



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    Pike, I love you.

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    Punintentional is expunentially better.



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    "Punintentional" is the punultimate miscarriage of witty repartee.

    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    I imagine many things as I try to make you wonder why.
    :chuckle: I love how I have no idea what this means.
    Jack: How do you know?

    Will: It's more of a feeling really.

    Jack: Well, that's not scientific. Feeling isn't knowing. Feeling is believing. If you believe it, you can't know because there's no knowing what you believe. Then again, no one should believe what they know either. Once you know anything that anything becomes unbelievable if only by virtue of the fact you now... know it. You know?

    Will: No.

    If Demolition Man were remade today

    Huxley: What's wrong? You broke contact.
    Spartan: Contact? I didn't even touch you.
    Huxley: Don't you want to make love?
    Spartan: Is that what you call this? Why don't we just do it the old-fashioned way?
    Huxley: NO!
    Spartan: Whoa! Okay, calm down.
    Huxley: Don't tell me to calm down!
    Spartan: What's gotten into you? 'Cause it sure as hell wasn't me.
    Huxley: Physical relations in the way of intercourse are no longer acceptable John Spartan.
    Spartan: What? Why the hell not?
    Huxley: It's the law, John. And for your information, the very idea that you suggested it makes me feel personally violated.
    Spartan: Wait a minute... violated? Huxley what the hell are you accusing me of here?
    Huxley: You need to leave, John.
    Spartan: But Huxley.
    Huxley: Get out!
    Moments later Spartan is arrested for "violating" Huxley.

    By the way, that's called satire. Get over it.

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