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I mean, I like puns but they're a flash in the pan. Jokes get old after a while and you don't want to embed them in something fairly permanent like a building n
by skybrian 8mo ago
I mean, I like puns but they're a flash in the pan. Jokes get old after a while and you don't want to embed them in something fairly permanent like a building name.
- cucumber3732842 8mo ago"Surely you've all heard of the Hoare house on campus?" seems like a pretty timeless way to a) keep people from dozing off during that bit of lecture b) cause a whole bunch of people to remember who this guy was and what he did.
- yborg 8mo agoThis particular word for the oldest profession goes back to Old English. I am fairly sure it would outlive the building.
- skybrian 8mo agoIf the problem is when the joke lives on amusing undergrads long after you've tired of it, that just makes it worse.
- Lio 8mo agoWait until they hear about what Magpie Lane in Oxford used to be called. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magpie_Lane,_Oxford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magpie_Lane,_Oxford
- windward 8mo agoA historical bawdy pun is one of the most Oxfordian things I can think of. If we can incorporate a man in drag, we're in real business.