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Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles
I made a site that creates puns using Wikipedia page tiles as the source of pun phrases
- kyry2016 2y agoThey have been using guns
- politelemon 2y agoI like it! What's the process, are you looking up rhymes, then Wikipedia titles containing those words?
- spacether 2y agoGlad to hear that you like it! Yup that's the process. Titles are in a relational db and fetched titles for a rhyme are stored in redis to speed up queries after the first one.
- notamoosed 2y ago[flagged]
- gazook89 2y agoJust fyi I think you could make the experience better (maybe with another pun) if you hit the submit button with an empty field. Right now it takes me to a poor error page
- dataflow 2y agoIt would've been lovely, but your "puns" aren't puns! I put "trips" in there, and I got: - List of largest cruise trips <=> List of largest cruise ships - Trips Industries, Tips Industries What you have here instead are rhymes, but not puns. A pun would've consisted of two words that sound the same, with both meanings usable in the phrase.
- pimlottc 2y agoI agree, and even knowing this, I assumed it was finding pairs of real articles that rhymed. But no. It’s just a list of real articles and made up rhyming titles.
- KTibow 2y agoYou need to put in a funny word for it to be something that resembles a pun
- dataflow 2y agoThat's certainly desirable but I'm not sure I'd call it a requirement? For example, if someone asks "We volunteered for this; who else did?" and you reply "Us two", that seems like a fairly uncontroversial pun with "Us too", but it's not particularly funny.
- ahazred8ta 2y agoLinguists don't tell puns. They cant.
- Suppafly 2y ago>A pun would've consisted of two words that sound the same, with both meanings usable in the phrase. There are other sorts of puns than that but also, 'Trips Industries, Tips Industries' is a decent pun if you know anything about the trips industry. I agree that this is identifying rhymes, so essentially it's doing half the job and then you have to use context to understand if it's a valid pun or not.
- ndarray 2y agoThis is awesome. Might have some bugs as others mentioned but I like this idea, it's capable of producing some hilarious material in combination with swear words. Some of the word substitutions are too dissimilar for my taste though I'm sure it's difficult to get the tolerance right on your end.
- dmd 2y agoVery neat but I don’t understand what it has to do with puns. These are rhymes, as far as I can tell.
- juicepun 2y agoOof! https://punnily.com/puns?word=Juice https://punnily.com/puns?word=Juice
- imglorp 2y ago500
- AStonesThrow 2y agoThis was a great opportunity to enter a pun contest, so I generated 10 of them and sent them in as entries. When I asked who had won, they told me: "No pun in ten did."
- adammarples 2y agoA pun is a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word. What you have here is a rhyming phrase generator.
- deckeraa 2y agoSimple & fun. Well done. Note for others asking how it works: this generates simple puns based off of rhymes. Many potential puns won't make sense. But if you were, say, writing an article about finding a bread recipe for the fall, the tool's suggestion of "Hunt for the Bread October" would be a good pun.
- BizarroLand 2y agoFun site, but I encountered what seems to be a bug. It 500s for the word "bill" and (after some further testing) with "kill", "thrill", "will", "still", "fill" and "phil". It worked with "infill" (no results), but not "refill". Any clue what is going on here?