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Prince EWS
Global Moderator
Sorry guys - that's my fault. It was closed as it legitimately added nothing.
In any rate, apologies for not explaining myself at the time - I'll do so whenever I close a thread from now on.
I love a good pun as much as the next guy, but the thread wasn't even created for that purpose.Forum rules said:
In any rate, apologies for not explaining myself at the time - I'll do so whenever I close a thread from now on.
Fiery
Banned
A bit of fun...what was the harm?
Perm
Well-known member
It was just a waste of bandwith really.
dontcloseyoureyes
BARNES OUT
So's your mother.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Bit surprised, TBH - no thread is ever created with the intention of punning, but often a fairly going-nowhere thread like that (yaju's speciality - and that's not a criticism, Marc once described him as "someone we all like because he is and always has been random" which is pretty accurate) will turn into puns, especially when *certain people* (and I count myself very much amongst them) are around. Another example was the Dav-vs-Beatles thread.
No biggie, of course, but as I say - bit surprised. Sure, punning's a bit of a waste of bandwidth but I'd hate it if every pun thread was closed and not sure why this was singled-out.
No biggie, of course, but as I say - bit surprised. Sure, punning's a bit of a waste of bandwidth but I'd hate it if every pun thread was closed and not sure why this was singled-out.
vic_orthdox
Global Moderator
The major problem with the thread was that there was actually never any real discussion in it in the first place. Most of the punning threads usually at least get a page out before they head off track; this thread generated no real discussion at all.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
The Dav-vs-Beatles thread (never remotely serious and just a thread that was crying out for punnage) got, what, 10 posts at best before punning started?
In any case, I generally try to avoid punning in a thread where people are actually trying to discuss something, and I presume Whelan and all the rest of the Pun Clan do too. It's usually just a thread which had no big purpose ITFP that it tends to start in in my experience.
In any case, I generally try to avoid punning in a thread where people are actually trying to discuss something, and I presume Whelan and all the rest of the Pun Clan do too. It's usually just a thread which had no big purpose ITFP that it tends to start in in my experience.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
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LongHopCassidy
Well-known member
Not critical in any way, but I thought that the punnage that flowered from such an abject concept was an admirable attempt to salvage the thread. I can't help but think that it would have been a much more justified closure had it stayed on track.
That's the purpose of punnage, after all - to give a bit of rigor-mortis to dead threads!
