The no-pun and shut case for my LJDQ answers

[i_calql8]

The puns that failed to make the cut on this week's LJDQ:

2. Who was the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra?

Electra. When she was young, her parents read to her from Dr. Zeus.

I kinda liked that one, even though it's kind of a tack-on pun.

4. What line dance was created by Ric Silver in 1976?

The Ric Flair

This one is admittedly weak, punwise, but it had wrestling. WRESTLING! I toyed with the idea that the Ric Flares might better describe disco pants, but this pun stayed with me.

Still...double quotage today! Minor squee!!!

Comments

[lovellama.livejournal.com]

Well done!! :D

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

On the puns or the quotage?

...oh, who cares? Any excuse to cop a hug from a cute redhead. XD

[germankitty]

I had to read #2 a few times until I caught it -- IMO, it's too much of a visual joke/pun, sort of as if you'd need jail/gaol in another context.

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

But it was a pro wrestling pun. PRO WRESTLING!

...you're still pissed at me for that 'oldest mod' crack from earlier, arencha?

(Totally worth it *snerk*)

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

Oh, wait, by #2, you meant the Dr. Zeus pun, huh?

Never mind.

[germankitty]

Uh, I meant the answer to question #2, not your 2nd pun on question #4.

And I purposely didn't comment on the latter because I hate, hate, HATE Ric Flair with absolute passion, sorry. :)

Speaking of oldest ... am I really? I'm 52; how far gone along are you?

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

That's okay, I hate the vulgarity that pro wrestling has become over the years, too.

I turned 48 last September. That means I am 12/13 as old as you!

[germankitty]

I think I stopped watching wrestling when Hulk Hogan took over the "New World Order" back in WCW times. :) (Scott Hall and Kevin Nash were hot, though!)

And ... does that mean I get to call you Baby? *hides*

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

I stopped watching when Stone Cold Steve Austin made the scene as a foul-mouthed, bird-flipping, beer-guzzling doofus. I continued not-watching when The Rock came onto the scene as a bullying, preening egomaniac--and people cheered for him like he was some kind of hero.

Women earn the right to call me 'Baby' after one thing, and one thing only...

...and that's fixing me a three-egg sausage and cheese omelet and hash browns for breakfast, of course. Why, what were you thinking? XD

[germankitty]

I dunno, I kinda liked Stone Cold ... but everything else that's been going on since WWF and WCW consolidated sucks. My favorite time was right after Wrestlemania 10 (I think -- the one at Caesar's Palaca, Las Vegas). More characters then, not just thugs!

Annnnnnnnnnnd ... okay, you're not Baby. I don't do cooked breakfast, sorry! (I'm willing to negotiate over other meals, though!)