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New Nevada college savings program announced
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Reno-Sparks prices pick up as home sales slow
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The next phase of a statewide funding initiative for startups gets turned over to the masses this week as online voting kicks off for Project Vesto.
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New Flash Player for Linux Supports H.264
Adobe has released a new version of its Flash Player 9 Update 3, including the Linux version which thus leaves the beta stage. It now supports the H.264 video format and fullscreen operations with accelerated graphics.
The new version can replay video material using hardware acceleration and has improved support for multicore processors. This gives a real boost to fullscreen replaying on large displays which is now far smoother. According to Adobe a cache is used to store libraries that multiple Web applications rely on. This speeds up application launches for complex applications. At the same time, the new Flash Player supports X-Embed browser protocol making it compatible with Opera.
Support is available for the Advanced Video Coding MPEG-4 Part 10, video format, aka H.264, which is widely considered to be the next-generation standard for video transmissions on the Internet. HD-DVD, Blu-ray and high-resolution, digital satellite TV (DVB-S2) use the standard. The player also supports the High Efficieny AAC (HE-AAC) audio codec.
Version 184.108.40.206 (Linux) of the player is available for downloading from the vendor website, in a 32 bit version as previously. There are still no details on the publication of a 64 bit variant. Details and further information are available in the Adobe release notes.
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Debian 7.0 Debuts
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Fedora developers release the first alpha version of Fedora 19, known as Schrödinger's Cat, for general testing. The final release is expected in July 2013.
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- Shell out now for ShellThe energy giant pays a good dividend and will benefit from rising natural gas prices.
- Cramer: 2 tech stocks explain this market
Investors see value in Hewlett-Packard and growth in ChannelAdvisor.
How can Goldman Sachs win against the government when it's public enemy No. 1?
Goldman Sachs (GS) will lose the case the government is bringing against it.
If there were a betting line on the trial of the Securities and Exchange Commission vs. Goldman Sachs, the SEC would be the overwhelming favorite.
That's because unless Goldman gets a jury of its peers who live at 800 Fifth Avenue, the people who will debate the evidence most likely will side with the government. How could they not? When you have the government vs. public enemy No. 1, who would you think gets the benefit of the doubt? Who on Wall Street do you think is guilty until proven innocent these days, least of all the firm that President Obama and the SEC seem to love to hate?
Convenience store's 'Game Day' brand could further erode sales of bigger brewers.
Tight consumer spending has hurt all areas of the economy -- including the beer business. Once thought of as recession-proof, alcohol sales have suffered along with just about everything else.
But 7-Eleven is defying the sales slump with the launch of its own private-label beer called "Game Day," produced by City Brewing of Wisconsin. Privately held 7-Eleven is mum on the details aside to say the beer is a premium offering with a budget price.
So will consumers pop the top, or is this a venture that's doomed to fall flat as beer sales have suffered in the last year?
No headlines just the facts on the market action last week
Value Line Index -- Contains 1700 stocks -- Much broader than the S&P 500 or very narrow Dow 30 -- Index still positive
- Index up on 4 of the last 5 days for a weekly gain of 1.17%
- Index up for the 4th week in a row
- Index up for the 3rd month in a row
- Barchart technical indicators have 12 of 13 buy signals
- Barchart technical rating of a 96% buy
- Index closed Friday above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving average
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One US Senator moves to ban it just as a key commission approves the plan.
Soon after passing one hurdle and getting approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, movie-futures trading hit a snag in Congress.
Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., who oversees the commission and is chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, on Friday added a provision to financial reform legislation that would ban the commission from licensing firms to offer trading based on box office receipts.
Lincoln unveiled a new version of her proposed Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act that includes a movie-futures trading ban.
Lincoln's proposal was praised by a coalition
The Wal-Mart success story is well known. Here is a great visual description of its growth.
A picture is worth a thousand words -- and in the case of a select few growth stocks, 1,000% or more.
If you want to understand why a stock generates these sorts of gains, look no further than helpful visual of Wal-Mart's growth since its founding in 1962.
The graphic is stunning in its telling of the Wal-Mart (WMT) story. From very humble beginnings in Arkansas, the company executed a very careful expansion strategy based on proximity to its first locations.
That story was repeated by other companies, including Starbucks (SBUX), McDonald's (MCD) and Home Depot (HD), that also generate huge returns.
One market guru's answer might surprise you
How expensive (or cheap) are stocks right now?
That's the question that scores of strategists and pundits have been trying to answer lately, and they are coming to a variety of different conclusions. That's not surprising; valuing the broader market is, in fact, always tricky because of the array of methods you can use. Even within the often used price/earnings ratio there are a number of possibilities -- do you use trailing 12-month earnings? Projected earnings? Five- or ten-year average earnings?
But one perspective I found particularly intriguing came this week from Jeremy Siegel, the Wharton professor and Stocks for the Long Run author. In an interview with Knowledge@ Wharton, Siegel said investors need to take into account that we're coming out of a deep recession when they value the market. Right now, he said, stocks are selling for about 15.5 times projected 2010 operating earnings -- about the historical average. But coming out of recessions, Siegel says, the average market P/E for the next full year has historically been about 18.5. "That's why I still think there is room for stocks to run up," he says.
Siegel's not the only guru I follow who believes that -- though there are certainly others who disagree.
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Goldman sells to sophisticated clients who can do more due diligence than just ask a ratings agency.
By Jim Cramer, TheStreet
If Goldman Sachs (GS) owned a piece of Abacus, it is hard for me to believe this case is as open-and-shut as the government is making it. Yet that is my understanding of the situation. In other words, what is Exhibit A against the government's case? That Goldman believed in the paper itself.
I also think that there is simply an important issue here that the government is leaving out. Goldman does not sell washing machines. They do not sell vacuum cleaners. They sell pieces of paper that are fully disclosed, and you can go long or short them based on the info. There is no guarantee. There never has been.
Fraud charges do a number on Wall Street's claim that the financial crisis was an act of God.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Goldman Sachs (GS) with securities fraud, and the whole market has sold off.
Friday afternoon, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($INDU) was down 126 points or 1.1%. The Standard & Poor's 500 Stock Index ($INX) was off 1.6%. Goldman's shares tumbled 12.8%.
What is the SEC charging and why is this such a big deal?
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The SEC's charges against Goldman Sachs show how the president has finally gotten his regulators to squeeze Wall Street.
By Dan Freed, TheStreet
The American public wanted a head, and its president finally delivered what may be the only one that would suffice.
No single firm can be said to symbolize Wall Street in the mind of the public as much as Goldman Sachs (GS), which was accused of fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission Friday.
Whatever corporate America may think, President Obama wasn't looking to make Wall Street CEOs into his enemies. If that were his mission, he wouldn't have hired Tim Geithner as his Treasury secretary. Geithner likes to brag about how he has never worked on Wall Street, but a profile of Geithner by Gary Weiss makes the best case I have seen that Geithner was a tool of the big banks he was supposed to regulate as New York Federal Reserve chairman.
All 41 Republican senators block the Democrats from bringing a reform bill to the Senate floor.
Democrats have been working on legislation that attempts to more tightly control the financial industry -- hoping to avoid the reckless behavior that helped bring about the mortgage-fueled crisis of the last two years.
Now, all 41 Republicans in the Senate are united in blocking the Democrats from bringing the legislation to the Senate floor. Sen. Harry Reid had planned to bring the bill for debate and to add amendments, The Huffington Post reports.
This is a tough spot for Republicans to be in,
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What the SEC's surprising charges reveal about Wall Street's games and a famed hedge fund manager.
By Heidi N. Moore for The Big Money
Can money be made on Wall Street without manipulation? These days, if you believe it can, you're in lonely company.
Take the remarkable example of the Securities and Exchange Commission's case announced today against Goldman Sachs (GS). While Goldman headlines are as rare as air molecules, the Securities and Exchange Commission nonetheless got everyone's attention with this one: "SEC Charges Goldman Sachs With Fraud in Structuring and Marketing of CDO Tied to Subprime Mortgages."
Here's what the SEC alleged: that Goldman Sachs helped create a type of security based on subprime mortgages that was designed to fail, and didn't tell investors the details in any of the documents it used to sell the thing. That's a big offense. Here's how it worked:
The Goldman Sachs charges have the financial sector in a tizzy. Here's what some observers are saying.
Market Dispatches has the dirty details. And it seems like everyone has come out to comment on the matter.
Here's what some notable voices are saying today:
Weak case? Henry Blodget thinks the SEC's case is actually kinda weak.
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Goldman Sachs shares plunge after the SEC accuses the bank of defrauding investors.
By Robert Holmes, TheStreet
Goldman Sachs (GS) shares tanked Friday, dragging financial stocks down, after the Securities and Exchange Commission accused the bank of fraud.
Goldman Sachs plummeted 13% to $160.29 after the SEC charged Goldman and one of its vice presidents for defrauding investors by failing to disclose to vital information about a synthetic collateralized debt obligation, or CDOs, tied to the performance of subprime residential mortgage-backed securities.
"The product was new and complex but the deception and conflicts are old and simple," said Robert Khuzami, the SEC's director of the Division of Enforcement.
Shares briefly cross $5 before sinking again, underlining the importance of its upcoming first-quarter report.
By Laurie Kulikowski, TheStreet
Citigroup (C), which reports first-quarter results on Monday, has been cleaning up its balance sheet and catching up to other banks. But now that it's battled back, where does it go from here?
The improvement began in early March when a number of respected voices, notably fund manager Bruce Berkowitz and independent research firm CreditSights, made favorable comments about the company. The trend has continued on the success of the company's Primerica (PRI) initial public offering.
Bank stocks in general have outperformed, buoyed by the perception that the economy is on stable ground, and Wall Street's belief that credit costs reached an inflection point in the first quarter.
A jump in software sales surprised some, but the trend lines -- including April's action -- are obvious.
After steep declines in February video game sales, we learned late this week that March video game sales were up 6% over last year, breaking the steep declines seen after the holiday season.
According to the NPD Group, video game sales hit $1.52 billion for the month and featured a more than 10% jump in video game software sales -- much better than the +3% gain that was expected.
Some folks were surprised by this -- but that's because they don't know the industry.
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Research summary A school exists within a larger community and the two should collaborate to reach their goals. A successful school system invigorates a community and a thriving community supports its schools. Savvy school leaders build and develop strong community relationships that can spell success for every technology initiative. Unfortunately, the relationship between school and community is not always strong, and, as Dede (1998) notes, it seldom feels like a partnership. The school staff, working a difficult job with often inadequate resources, may feel isolated. Community members, looking for return on their investment, may appear to micro-manage school operations. A community may demonstrate lack of trust when parents choose to send their children to private schools or educate them at home, or when taxpayers fail to approve school bond issues (Haynes & Comer, 1997). What can happen when school and community build a strong partnership? Kozma and Schank (1998) describe a vision of the future that implements constructivist teaching and learning strategies supported by networked technologies. This vision extends the learning community beyond the school and encourages researchers and members of the community to participate in the education of children. This vision requires that education be a central focus of the community. Many grant initiatives emphasize the formation of partnerships with other education institutions, business, and communities. U.S. Department of Education grant programs, such as Community Technology Centers, Learning Anytime Anywhere Partnerships, and Technology Innovation Challenge Grants all support partnerships. Partnerships have always been key for schools involved in the Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program (TIIAP), now called the Technology Opportunities Program (TOP), (Department of Commerce, 1996). Partners can provide expertise and advice on program implementation and help to develop support throughout the community. They can also offer financial support. One large district (Ingwerson, 1996) established a community awareness team of community, business, and education volunteers. This team was charged with creating an ongoing public awareness program to inform and build support for the district's major technology initiative.
Partners often come in during the planning of technology initiatives. Community partners can offer insights into community needs and can help align school goals with community economic development goals (Rockman, 1998). Partners from business can share information about how the world of work is changing and can help align school goals with needed skills (Costello, 1997). Established partnerships can support long-term technology initiatives by developing ways to sustain these efforts after initial funding has been spent.
One successful school project began by involving the greater community in a multiyear technology planning cycle (Palestis, 1997). Community members were valuable because they brought expertise that complemented staff skills. Not only was the community involved, but it became a direct beneficiary of the planning effort, which resulted in a school-based facility to provide technology training to students and community members. The community gained an appreciation for the academic goals of the school, as well as the costs of supporting those goals.
A significant factor for the success of any technology program is communication, and establishing strong external relationships can facilitate communication. Community members who participate in school-based planning and management teams have a better understanding of how our schools work and can reciprocate by providing insight into community needs (Haynes & Comer, 1997). Remember that community members may need to be informed about changes in education and how technology can help their children learn new skills necessary for work (Anderson, 1996).
The changes in education dictate changes in assessment. We need to help parents and other community members expand their knowledge of assessment. Periodic communication helps everyone understand that standardized test scores are not the only measure of academic achievement and that we need new ways to demonstrate student learning (Rockman, 1998). Key community and business leaders who support alternative evaluations of technology's effectiveness can be powerful banner carriers for school leaders.
Dede (1998) notes that research documents at least four improvements in educational outcomes from new, technology-based teaching and learning strategies. These include increased learner motivation, mastery of advanced topics, expert behavior by students, and better outcomes on standardized tests. Regardless of outcome, he suggests that the most effective means of convincing the community at large of the effectiveness of technology-based programs is to involve them in their students' education.
Technology can support relationships between the school, home, and work arenas, especially through networked telecommunications (Haynes & Comer, 1997; Kozma & Schank, 1997; Rockman, 1998). As Internet access increases, communication barriers between schools and communities are lessened.
How do information technologies support greater connection between school and home? Students can do schoolwork at home. Supported by digital resources from the school and beyond, they can collaborate with peers and communicate with teachers. Parents can become more involved in their children's education and more knowledgeable about the needs of the school. Connections between the school and the rest of the community can coordinate learning goals with community goals and help to integrate education into daily life (Kozma & Schank, 1997). The Benton Foundation (1998) suggests that information technologies can help our communities work together to solve social problems relating to poverty, housing, crime, and health concerns.
Haynes and Comer (1997) add that networked technologies have encouraged schools to broaden their mission and begin providing services for the entire community. Some schools develop Technology Nights that encourage parents, community members, and business people to witness the results of technology programs first hand (Anderson, 1996). America Links Up is sponsored by a coalition of educators, non-profit organizations, and corporations and seeks to provide children with a safe and rewarding online experience through a campaign of public awareness (http://www.americalinksup.org/).
Many schools go beyond demonstration to provide technology instruction and access to members of the community through school-based facilities (Bouie, 1998; Palestis, 1997). School staff or technology-savvy students present lessons and offer technical support. Such Community Access Centers (CACs) are used most by people who lack access at home or work (Department of Commerce, 1999). CACs help community members build basic technology skills while getting a glimpse into the necessity of technology-based instruction for their children. Educating parents and other community members through CACs also opens lines of communication and helps schools develop a broader base of support.
Anderson, L. (1996). Guidebook for developing an effective instructional technology plan, Version 2.0. Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State University.
Benton Foundation. (1998). Losing ground bit by bit: Low-income communities in the Information Age. Washington, DC: Benton Foundation.
Bouie, E. L., Jr. (1998). Creating an information rich environment. T.H.E. Journal, 26(2), 78-79.
Costello, R. W. (1997). The leadership role in making the technology connection. T.H.E. Journal, 25(4), 58-61.
Dede, C. (1998) The scaling-up process for technology-based educational innovations. In C. Dede (Ed.), Learning with Technology. 1998 ASCD Yearbook. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. 199-215. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 416 857)
Haynes, N. M. & Comer, J. P. (1997). The home-school team. In P. Burness (Ed.), Learn & Live. Nicasio, CA: The George Lucas Educational Foundation.
Ingwerson, D. (1996). A model for technology training: the Los Angeles County Office of Education's Technology for Learning Initiative. T.H.E. Journal, 24(4), 84-87.
Kozma, R. & Schank, P. (1998). Connecting with the 21st Century: Technology in support of educational reform. In C. Dede (Ed.), Learning with Technology. 1998 ASCD Yearbook. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 416 857)
Palestis, E. (1997). Meeting the challenge. Technology Connection, 4(3), 14-15.
Rockman, S. (1998). Leader's guide to education technology. Washington, DC: Edvancenet. Available: http://www.edvancenet.org/ax/metacontent_fs.html?res*guide
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Lazarius wrote:I actually lol'd at that
Wow, it looks a LOT better flipped. Anyone else notice that should really be the directions they're facing?
Yeah I actually think the artist may have flipped the original image for fear of stealing/plagiarism, etc. It does look like the original was drawn that way (correctly) in the first place.


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I dunno, I thought it could be just a melting pot thing for general random says about things pertaining to the RPG forum. Thoughts, reminiscences, and stuff. Like for instance,
I think Surkit is the epitome of cool around here.
I think I would've done really well, and I would've had a really good time here a few years ago. There were a lot of people and idea things that happened that would've been awesome to take part in, like one of those schools or the Psychophobia.
I really look forward to seeing Genesis Incorporated in action. Venture kid or Kratesis would make a great straight man (or straight woman).
But please, positive stuff only. I don't want to hear any "Quickster is the worst seller ever, he has the dumbest character ever, and he sucks and nobody should ever write with him ever." This isn't for people to take out personal grudges and stuff or anything like that. There doesn't need to be anything bad said.


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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
It's A Punderful Life
affable: fifty per cent of a male cow
bigotry: the larger of two sturdy plants
category: your moggy after it's been in a fight
definite: the more hard-of-hearing of a pair of headlice
And now I've descended to this kind of level:
Rendering myself truly punfit to be called a writer.
I'd like to change, I really would. I'd like to write poems instead (though some would say they're verse) but I don't have the rhyme. Still, to prove that I can produce punfree pieces, here's one I wrote a long time ago for Richard Whiteley:
I'm sorry to say that your ties
Do terrible things to my eyes
It's the colours I think
With the purple and pink
Of the set - on the whole, most unwise
Overall Dick you dress like a pro
With a sharp dapper suit for each show
But those things round your neck
Make me think "Flipping heck!
"Why did someone not say to him 'no'?!"
So: I can do without them, but it's not quite as pun. But does wordplay leave you pungry like the wolf, or do you think writers should be punished for resorting to it? I'd really like your opunion...
55 comments:
If you were a little older, you could have joined Big Pun.
- April 29, 2009 at 12:41 PM
- Nathan said...
A Twitterer recently said they had no fear of a pandemic. It was a pundemic they feared.
- April 29, 2009 at 12:41 PM
- Tom said...
Sorry but I must add my very humour-lacking response: puns truly are the lowest form of wit, because they're really just jokes about two things that sound similar.
A pun that could work would be one that really operated on multiple levels (i.e. the meaning of the pun word worked as well as the word it was replacing, if you catch my drift). As it is, I can't think of a good example. Sorry. - April 29, 2009 at 12:49 PM
- Andrew said...
At least you can always fall back on a career as a pundit.
(Presumably this involves ambushing unsuspecting travellers, and torturing them with wordplay until they give up all their valuables.)
(If you did this online, would you be an information superhighwaywoman?) - April 29, 2009 at 12:49 PM
- Cubik's Rube said...
I'm quite a fan of puns in general, and although yours are masterfully done, you do seem to be using them in punhealthy doses lately.
- April 29, 2009 at 12:50 PM
- Dan W said...
I am a big fan of puns, in fact it is unquestionably the only reason I went into journalism. I once got the honour of writing a short piece about puns for the Guardian,
Feel a bit like I've plundered your blog by posting that.
Audi A4 - What a German says when he drops a ream of paper on his foot.
Abundance - A waltz for cakes.
decimate - insult a friend
bidet - two days before D day
and so on... - April 29, 2009 at 12:53 PM
- Margaret said...
Someone said that Ariane Sherine is having a punicious effect on the English language. I said that as long as she gets her punctuation right, I'm not worried.
- April 29, 2009 at 12:55 PM
Puns make me wince in physical pain o.0
- April 29, 2009 at 1:04 PM
I like 'definite'.
- April 29, 2009 at 1:06 PM
- anikretep said...
This pundit thinks you're good at both. Probably best not over do them though, methinks.
- April 29, 2009 at 1:13 PM
- Simon Bishop said...
If a pun is used periodically, does it become a tampun?
- April 29, 2009 at 1:18 PM
- The Heresiarch said...
We're in the middle of the aporkalypse and all you can think about it puns?
- April 29, 2009 at 1:20 PM
Girl, you are out of puntrol...
- April 29, 2009 at 1:25 PM
- Bubalus said...
I like puns, but they do seem to have grown exponentially in the media recently. As with any device it's best used in moderation.
Having said that I still join in. - April 29, 2009 at 1:29 PM
- Catie Wilkins said...
As a rule I hate puns. But yours are very charming. Plus you can always have a back-up career writing cracker jokes...
ha ha I am funny xxx - April 29, 2009 at 2:28 PM
One nation under cod. In cod we trust!
Sincerely, AA (Anonymous Americans) - April 29, 2009 at 2:35 PM
- Ariane said...
@slurper: If I were a boy, I could have joined Pun Boy Three.
@Nathan: The swine. He's supposed to be scared of the epigdemic and the hamdemic.
@Tom: Do you mean that if my friend Malcolm always took cocaine in the bath, I could refer to his supply as Malcolm Powder?
@Andrew: I could do it after shaving my legs. Then I'd be a smooth criminal.
@Cubik's Rube: You're right - I wouldn't want to get punwell.
@DanW: Great article and puns - thanks. As one-liner merchants go, I love Gary Delaney ("Wrote a book on pigeons once. Paper would have been easier").
@Margaret: Who said that? I want to punch him!
@Dana: I'll ease off on them for the next post, promise.
@Anonymous: But are you sure?
@Anikretep: Will try not to.
@SimonBishop: I can't believe you said that. Bloody hell!
@Heresiarch: I don't think we're in pig trouble yet. But would you prefer me to tell porkies?
@Javier: It's better than being out of petrol.
@Bubalus: I've seen you join in at an alaning rate.
@Catie: If I wrote cracker jokes, do you think I'd be more likely to pull?
@Anonymous: Or, as sprats might say, "In Cod We're Trussed". - April 29, 2009 at 2:46 PM
- Klaas Jan Runia said...
I have to say I just roar at your pieces of cleverness. I think humour greatly consists of referring to notions outside of the obvious cognitive framework. And the thing with language is that you can fool around with its ambiguous properties all that you like.
What I'm trying to figure out myself is this: why does a writer who writes witty texts, write witty texts? "Because it's funny" doesn't suffice, because it immediately begs the questions: "What is 'funny' and why is it needed?" By any chance, would this be the actual question you're trying to get the answer to? In any case, being a psycho and philo, this question interests me.
I like puns as a type of humour, provided they're "witty". They are a form of sharp little puzzles. And when the reader is able to figure it out in a split second, it brings him or her a feeling of joyful reward, which can be addictive to the reader as well as to the writer, perhaps imagining in advance the reader's effort to figure it out.
The challenge is probably that puns have to have a certain degree of complexity to prevent anyone from attributing lameness to them or, when they're too complex, aversion, since the reader now feels he or she misses the boat.
By the way, "I write things. Words, mainly" is perhaps not a pun in a strict sense of the word, but it's formidable wordplay nonetheless. I say, keep on going. And do write more poems as well. - April 29, 2009 at 3:22 PM
- Graham said...
If you remove puns from your writing, will they be expunged forever?
- April 29, 2009 at 3:47 PM
- Duohedron Politico said...
I think I am going to rename my species "punkeys".
- April 29, 2009 at 4:37 PM
- Brian said...
So, basically, you're a pundamentalist?
- April 29, 2009 at 6:45 PM
- Brian said...
.. and I think it was Barry Cryer who defined 'definite' as 'hard of hearing, don't you agree?'
- April 29, 2009 at 6:47 PM
- Brian said...
.. and should add I'm envious of your apundant punstoppability. Please keep doing it.
- April 29, 2009 at 8:10 PM
- Matt Keefe said...
Well, I'm not sure I have much to say one way or the other on puns but your writing always makes me smile. It brightens my day. So there you go.
- April 29, 2009 at 8:52 PM
- Nino said...
You are very punny!
- April 29, 2009 at 9:25 PM
I can only speak for myself, but I think you have a point (sprats:) But I have a short-term memory like a goldfish. My point about cod is...My point is...Doh! I forgot.
Pun or not, I always enjoy your writing. Keep it up!
AA - April 30, 2009 at 12:13 AM
- MJB said...
I am definitely batting for the 'I hate puns' team. I have tried very hard to appreciate them (I even bought a Tim Vine DVD from the Woolworths sale). Unfortunately, I couldn't watch the full gig. I had to remove the disc after 10 minutes - the corny puns were so relentless it made me feel depressed.
I'm guessing Tim 'The Punmeister' Vine is one of your comedy heroes, Ariane?
* It is possible to beat this terrible pun addiction - be strong! - April 30, 2009 at 12:29 PM
- L said...
Found you today on Twitter and now here and think I've died and gone to heaven.
To echo some of the above, puns can become tedious. Yet not in your case when backed up by your wit, journalistic style and ability to use apostrophe's (sic) and spell "definately" (sic x2).
PS Not sure Uxbridge English Dictionary definitions are in fact puns per se, but love them all the same. Keep it up!
"Shambling" - fake jewellery. - April 30, 2009 at 6:48 PM
- Amos Keppler said...
Playing with the language is both fun and downright necessary.
- May 1, 2009 at 4:04 PM
- Ariane said...
@Klaas Jan: Really glad you like them. You ask, "What is 'funny' and why is it needed?" I think it's surprise and an emotional release - but when you start to study "funny" in depth, it always ceases to be! It's like when you see a flashing dot in the corner of your eye, but when you stare at the dot, it's no longer there.
@Graham: I think some would hope so.
@Duohedron: Great idea, but they might have to start listening to The Clash first.
@Brian: Those are excellent. I do like the idea of being a pundamentalist.
@MattKeefe: You're lovely.
@Nino: Thank you.
@AA: I'm very glad! Thanks.
@MJB: Not too much of a Vine fan, surprisingly. I prefer Gary Delaney and Milton Jones ("Some people are addicted to cats. Like the Pope - he's a cat-holic.")
@L: You're too kind. I'll endeavour never to disappoint. I love "shambling" (the pun, not walking down the street in a scruffy-casual way).
@Amos: Thank you. I shall tell people that next time they groan at one of my more dubious puns. - May 1, 2009 at 7:07 PM
- Sunny said...
For someone who's been inundated with Ariane's puns over the last few days, I say long live!
(I desperately tried to think of a pun for this, but this is why you're a comedy writer and I'm an angry political blogger). - May 2, 2009 at 1:51 AM
- Guillaume said...
I am not the biggest pun fan myself, I often think they are poor attempts at humour. To me the funniest ones are often the blatantly obvious and therefore dumbest ones, as they show the absurdity of the whole mechanism. French comics writer Gotlib was great doing those.
- May 3, 2009 at 10:10 AM
- fancyplants said...
Hi Ariane!
I do like to do puns, much to the derision of friends if I'm in a punning mood. Plays on words tend to be my greatest temptation.
For instance, if we're together playing a video game and someone misses they will often say 'oh come ON..!'. The temptation to sneak out a 'gotta catch em all..' is often too great. I'm sure my friends appreciate the high comedic talents at work there... :)
Regarding the alternative dictionary definitions, this is just like the 'Uxbridge English Dictionary' round on I'm sorry I Haven't a Clue. When poor Humph died, b3ta did an image challenge in memory of him, putting these sorts of definitions into picture form. You can see them here. (check image filenames for answers) - May 3, 2009 at 10:20 PM
- Nisha said...
Is it wrong that I laughed out loud several times whilst reading your Guardian article?
I think the first pun was invented by a disgruntled father plotting ways to embarrass his unsuspecting children in front of their friends.
Mine is excellent at them (I've grown to appreciate them over time) and it's slowly infected me and my brother.
Still, it's a welcome progression from "Why are they taking so long with the food? Are they growing the [place relevant item here]?" - May 4, 2009 at 9:03 AM
Sudoku: imitation of a pigeon's call.
- May 5, 2009 at 6:28 PM
- Muhamad said...
Well, I see that the 'punto' has been driven to its proverbial home.
- May 5, 2009 at 8:23 PM
My personal favourite; "Time flies like an arrow, Fruit flies like a banana"
- May 6, 2009 at 3:40 PM
- Ariane said...
@Sunny: But you're the best angry political blogger I know (though possibly not the angriest).
@Guillaume: You should hook up with @Tom and bond over this...
@fancyplants: Hi again! Those are utterly brilliant - thanks a lot. Better than anything I could come up with, to my chagrin. Enjoyed the Pokemon quip too.
@Nisha: Not wrong, but entirely right. I agree about fathers and disgruntled children (though I think "disgruntled" now means "person without swine flu").
@Gavin: Indeed!
@Muhamad: Maybe we should set the Punto free. In other words, we should Freida P(u)nto...
@Carl: Glorious! I read that while having a serious phone conversation and had to keep from laughing. - May 6, 2009 at 10:13 PM
- Brendon Wilkins said...
Wo, wo, wo, wo. Just slow the heck down there a darn minute little lady. So what you're saying is: Richard Whitley didn't… write his own material!?!
Yeah, right.
And like, Carol doesn't do her own sums either?
Telling fibs make the baby Jesus cry Ariane. - May 7, 2009 at 4:17 PM
- JamesSpiller said...
I love puns but I'm a terrible punster. The following is my best effort:
I knew a green grocer who froze his herbs before he sold them.
He gave people a hard thyme.
Second best effort was a work colleague who was describing how he found it relaxing to watch tropical fish in a tank. Good natured ribbing from others alluded to this being more embarrassing and sexual than intended. I contributed the line: You can't spell fetish without fish.
(Apologies again.)
Love your work Ariane. :-) - May 8, 2009 at 2:45 AM
I was becoming a little tired of drugs, so I asked my dealer for an anagram of heroin instead. He gave me some He Noir.
- May 8, 2009 at 6:59 AM
- Ariane said...
@BrendonWilkins: He did his own script and ad libs and never claimed material he hadn't written as his own, if that's any consolation!
@James, @Marky: Those are fantastic - thanks. They made me laugh a lot, though I am also fearing for my job. - May 8, 2009 at 11:43 AM
I can't remember which 'Carry On' film it was in, but a great pun went somthing like this.....
(Scene) Man and Woman on a pirate boat looking over railings into the sea.
Man: "Careful love - don't fall. There's man eating sharks in there."
Woman: "Oh crikey. If I fall in will they eat me whole."
Man: "No, I think they spit that bit out."
Brilliant. Just Brilliant. Ariane - have you ever seen Tim Vine's stand-up ? He is fabulous at puns. - May 8, 2009 at 3:17 PM
May I ask what's fishy about your job? :( And is the fishiness rational? Really liked this last Guardian piece of yours.
- May 8, 2009 at 6:08 PM
- Zembla said...
I think, therefore I spam.
Geddit!!??! - May 9, 2009 at 11:42 PM
- charlesdance said...
My Father is abs*l*t*ly ins*lt*ngly f*ck*ng sh*t (that's not a pun, but it is true).
- May 12, 2009 at 3:18 PM
- diggingthedirt said...
Enough already. You're blogging a dead horse.
- May 12, 2009 at 3:53 PM
- darren the seedy german dholl said...
Hey Ariane,
you should check out James Richardson's Football Weekly podcast in the Guardian's Football bit.
The Pundaddy, I tell ya. - May 12, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Weird, weirder, weirdest..?
- May 13, 2009 at 2:38 PM
Oh, that reminds me - my favourite headline ever.
(For reference, "Caley" are Inverness Caledonian Thistle, a football team; the headline refers to their cup final win over Celtic.) - May 14, 2009 at 6:19 PM
It is like the lawyers representing the Zankara brothers, an animal trainers act breaking up, who were contesting the ownership of their two panthers. The brothers, each being given one panther each, was so angered by this they threatened to set the pair loose on their own lawyers. But the judge put a stop to that, of course. It would have been a clear-cut case of double leopardy.
- May 15, 2009 at 12:30 PM
- Muhamad Lodhi said...
[Free da punto]-Ha ha ha ha ha....
OK. OK. We all concede that you're the 'pundita' of 'punditry'.
"I long for you to know the beauty I see in you" Kimberley Jones - May 15, 2009 at 12:40 PM
- TheDeadlyGamesman said...
I want to go on Countdown. :(
Damn UK gets a great game show while North America get's stuck with Chuck Woolery and Lingo... sigh. - May 15, 2009 at 4:00 PM
- JamesSpiller said...
What did one font say to the other font?
You're just not my type.
(Maybe try it with Arial and 'the Courier' or something.) - May 17, 2009 at 7:25 AM
- Muhamad Lodhi said...
Hey, sweet Ariane, what's happened to my bilingual pun?
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I laid everything out and started priming. There's something so satisfying about spraying things completely white. I don't know what it is - but I went to town. I wanted to brighten up the entryway and make it colorful and fun.
Two things I'm loving right now are 1) CORAL and 2) gallery walls.
The wall I'm working with isn't very big, but a gallery is what I want!
After priming, I sprayed everything with Krylon gloss white and instead of pictures, I added patterened scrapbook paper to the frames.
I went to Hobby Lobby and found some that had the colors I wanted and I ended up with these:
Here is my new entryway:
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I thought the keys would stick to the glass of the frame with a hot glue gun but I was dead wrong. They popped right off so I used Gorilla Glue Epoxy.
That stuff could make a bowling ball stick to glass.
This was such a fun project and got me in the mood to spray everything CORAL and WHITE!
For the table I used Krylon's Coral Isle - which they don't sell in stores around here...BUT, Mandi over Vintage Revivals (who I looooooooove and who introduced the blog world to this color) spilled the beans that if you have a Sherwin Williams store nearby they can special order any Krylon color for you. So that's what I did and although it took like two weeks to get - it was worth the wait!


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I read the reviews before I bought this and everyone said that it was very thin. I guess I didn't know how thin they were talking. This is the thinnest down comforter I've ever seen. Like, half an inch thick-MAYBE. However, I really like it. I put it on my bed right when we got it... I can't believe how warm it is! This paired with flannel sheets is more than warm enough I dont think I will being using a "winter down".
You have to give this blanket time to puffy up. When it first arrived I was very disappointed with how thin it was, it looked like 2 thin sheets. After 3 days it puffed up and it�s very warm. It is not as puffy as it looks in the picture. This is a great down blanket and you can�t beat the price!
Perfect Price, Great product! Partner and i love it. We find it hard getting out of bed from being so darn comfortable with this on us! Being in South Florida I have been weary of buying one due to being afraid with the heat. This thing is great with the AC cool @ night like I like. Now I just need to find the right duvet covers! :) Shipping took a bit but I think because it came from CA.
I purchased this down comforter for my teen-aged daughter, and she could not be happier with the product. It has the appearance and feel of a more expensive comforter and is the perfect weight for our southern Ohio climate. The full/queen size fit perfectly into a duvet cover which came from a different company. I was also impressed with the quick shipping (just standard--nothing special) and the fact that the comforter was wrapped in plastice to protect it from the elements. (This measure was tested as the box sat for a few hours on our porch in the rain. The box was partially soaked, but the comforter was perfect!) This down comforter is very nice quality--at a very comfortable price.
Very saftisfied with the quality for the price I paid! My husband says it's perfect, he tends to get very warm as he sleeps, and this comforter is the perfect temp for him. I could use a little bit more warmth, so I add a light blanket to my side. Come summer, though, this will be the only comforter on the bed. We live in a maritime climate, so the warmest night here would be 60 degrees. The comforter covers the mattress well, if you're looking for a king that covers the box base also, choose another of larger dimensions. If a down comforter of good quality that isn't overly warm is what you're looking for, this is the one.
Good weight and good quality. Tends to bunch up a little on the sides though. But I would buy it again.
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Red Wings' exec rips Flyers, gets fined
The NHL on Saturday fined Detroit Red Wings VP Jimmy Devellano a reported $250,000 for comments he made about the collective-bargaining agreement and the Flyers earlier this week.
Red Wings' exec rips Flyers, gets fined
Sam Carchidi, Inquirer Staff Writer
The NHL on Saturday fined Detroit Red Wings VP Jimmy Devellano a reported $250,000 for comments he made about the collective-bargaining agreement and the Flyers earlier this week.
In an interview with Island Sports News that was posted on Puck Daddy (yahoo!), Devellano ripped the Flyers for giving a 14-year, $110 million offer sheet to RFA Shea Weber this summer.
"The Detroit Red Wings' organization and the league agree that the
comments made by Mr. Devellano are neither appropriate, nor authorized, nor
permissible under the league's bylaws," said Bill Daly, the NHL's deputy commissioner. "Such comments are neither constructive nor helpful to the
In the interview Devellano said, "There is a hard cap in place as we all know. You can't go over that....period. If Weber gets this much, then another player gets less. Now does that mean it's right for another team to do that? My answer is this: They (the Flyers) operated within the CBA and it's totally legit to do. Having said that, I will tell you there is an unwritten rule that you don't do that, but they did, and just like everything else in life, some people are great to deal with, some aren't. If you are asking me if it's right, I would say there is, again, an unwritten rule...we all know it in the NHL, but not everyone follows it."
Added Devellano: "Each owner / team has a decision as to how they want to pay their players, as long as they are under the cap. Now Donald Fehr (the NHLPA executive director) would have you believe by getting rid of the cap, the owners would make more money and that the sky is the limit, but trust me, the owners would lose their asses. We've tried that. It doesn't work. There is just too much cost involved in running and owning a team.
"It's very complicated and way too much for the average Joe to understand, but having said that, I will tell you this: The owners can basically be viewed as the Ranch, and the players, and me included, are the cattle. The owners own the Ranch and allow the players to eat there. That's the way its always been and that the way it will be forever. And the owners simply aren't going to let a union push them around. It's not going to happen."
Another day in the NHL lockout, another day without negotiations.
"It's been pretty quiet, so there's been nothing to communicate" to his teammates, defenseman Braydon Coburn, the Flyers' player representative, said in a phone conversation from his home in Calgary on Friday.
Representatives for the league and the players are battling over many issues, including how to divide hockey-related revenue (HRR). The owners have proposed giving the players 49 percent of the HRR in the first year, 48 percent in the second year, and 47 percent in the third through sixth years.
The players are asking for about 53 or 54 percent of the pie; they got 57 percent in the last collective-bargaining agreement.
Coburn said he met Thursday in Calgary with former NHL player Steve Webb, who is the Atlantic Division representative for the players' association. According to Coburn, Webb said the players' association wants to talk with the league about other collective-bargaining agreement issues _ such as ice conditions, players' safety, contract lengths and free-agency changes _ but the owners want to first solve the HRR dispute.
The league "isn't interested in negotiating until we get the numbers down on" the HRR issue, Coburn said Webb told him.
Coburn has been working out in Calgary with several NHL players, including the Flames' Jarome Iginla and Jay Bouwmeester.
"It's a good group of guys, but it doesn't replace playing," Coburn said.
The Flyers' training camp was scheduled to open Saturday at the Skate Zone in Voorhees. The start of NHL camps has been canceled, along with several exhibition games.
Players assigned to the Adirondack Phantoms, the Flyers' AHL affiliate, will report to the Voorhees rink on Friday for the start of that camp. That group will include the Flyers' Sean Couturier, Brayden Schenn, Zac Rinaldo, Erik Gustafsson and Eric Wellwood.
More labor pains. The NHL players' union was in Edmonton on Friday, trying to get the Alberta Labor Relations Board to declare the lockout illegal for the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers.
Last week, players from the Montreal Canadiens presented a similar case in Quebec, and the labor relations board there turned down their request for a temporary injunction against the lockout.
Another option. A judge ruled Friday that the Swedish Elite League cannot ban NHL players.
As of now, no Flyers are planning to play in Sweden, but that could change.
Three Flyers are playing in Russia's KHL _ Ilya Bryzgalov, Jake Voracek and Ruslan Fedotenko.
Follow Sam Carchidi on Twitter @BroadStBull.
- cooperhawk
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However, you are not supposed express your opinion in Bettman's NHL.
To Predators: Good luck paying Weber 25mil next year. I hope he bolts to KHL after that. Nitroglycerin- flyerrod
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Just cost his club 250K for being an idiot. Keep it coming Jimmy , maybe if you run your mouth some more it will add up to a million and you will be banished to club hockey for atoms or mites Steelmanpa- Northcountry
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- Actually, I think it's an NHL rule which is why we're not hearing a whole lot from the owners/execs about the lockout. eparico
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- Bonz, you've obviously never laced on a pair of skates and went out and played the game.
Playing at the NHL level requires an enormous and all consuming effort to get in shape, stay in shape, and hone already prodigious skills, which took years to perfect. So hockey is a real job. The players have made investments too, from which the owners benefit.
The owners get public money and tax concessions before they will build an arena. They get an exemption from the anti-trust laws that allows them to enter into a conspiracy to to work in concert against the players (that's essentially a UNION). They are sucking it up at the public trough while bashing "Big Gumint".
The owners are predators. backhand - Major Domo Billy Bojangles
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Although that said, if you went into a contract, you should have to honor it. The thought of asking players to cut their actual salaries is just insane. Just settle at a fair percentage on the HRR and start the season, already! NYluvsPhylers- doyle
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- Your arguement would have a basis if the the Flyer did not spend money. The Flyers have gone out year after year to sign best players. They don't take from revenue pool but rather give to it for other teams to take money. The Flyers are always up at the top of spenders, and in years of cap, they are tops. It wasn't until last few years that phillies beganto spend money, the Eagles never spend up to the cap. While I am frustrated that they haven won, it's not for a lack of effort. nice try. thebaron
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is it really necessary to talk like that? my analogy is appropriate from the owners point of view. for proof, have you ever seen where any professional team started up their own league because of a strike? right now, some of the players are looking to be flipping hamburgers before too long. you don't get players then build the stadium - it's quite the opposite. now, if you're interested in discourse, please lay off the attacks. tmq- Major Domo Billy Bojangles
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- "It's very complicated and way too much for the average Joe to understand." Mr. Devellano sounds like a stock broker. And his comments sure sound like hypocrisy. Detroit may choose not to tender offer sheets but they can't criticize the Flyers for offering big bucks. The Red Wings made a big push for Weber's former teammate, Ryan Suter, offering him a 13-year deal worth $88 million and they also offered New Jersey's Zach Parise a 13-year deal worth $73 million.
One of the owners' main proposals in the current Collective Bargaining Agreement has a stipulation extending restricted free agency to 10 years of service before going unrestricted. In that case the earliest a player could go UFA would be his late twenties. Under that scenario the free-agent market would be even barer every summer than it already is and the sheet would be the only way to go for any true value. Why pay the kinds of salaries we see in free agency for players are routinely past their primes, even if you do own the ranch?
What GM wouldn't want the sure thing in a young NHL player who has already proven what he can do at the highest level over the uncertainty of draft picks? Unless you think your team will be in line for some top-five picks in the next few seasons.
P.S. Mr. Devellano - get used to being a fringe team. - raoool


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