What sort of humour is this?

[rwbuild]

I'll give a gong to this. The secret is that at face value the sentence must not make any sense (i.e. grammatically incorrect).

Gee, Julia wood turnit inta a hyperbowl and call it Miss Soggyknee

[Grumpy John]

Gee, Julia wood turnit inta a hyperbowl and call it Miss Soggyknee

No, you're thinking of Pawline.

[rwbuild]

No, you're thinking of Pawline.

You mean Poor Lean Han Son

[labr@]

Do these qualify?

- I'm tone deaf below middle C so I can't piccolo note.

- I never went to look for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow but I saw indigo.

- I have to shift the compost heap before I can go fishing again but I need some equipment so I bought a shovel today and I'll get a barramundy.

- I was desperate for money so even though he's a mate I decided to confess.

[FenceFurniture]

Do these qualify?

- I'm tone deaf below middle C so I can't piccolo note.

- I never went to look for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow but I saw indigo.

- I have to shift the compost heap before I can go fishing again but I need some equipment so I bought a shovel today and I'll get a barramundy.

- I was desperate for money so even though he's a mate I decided to confess.

Crackajack!

[ian]

time flies like an arrow

fruit flies like a banana

[doug3030]

time flies like an arrow

fruit flies like a banana

"Great Tits like watermelons"



Its not what you think, its a famous anthropologist talking about a species of bird and their dietary preferences.

Doug

[FenceFurniture]

"Would you like to Pierce Brosnan?"
"No, but I'd Marion Cotillard"

[labr@]

If you go to speaker's corner you can expectorant.

And on a Tolkien theme.....
Wizards like dwarfs but hobbits preference.



Getting back to the original question of what sort of humour this is it occurred to me that the key to the alternative interpretation is a slight change in pronunciation - usually just by shifting the primary or secondary stress to a different syllable.
So it could be called "stress modified pronunciation embedded punsterism". A nice simple straightforward self explanatory term.

No, don't thank me - I'm here to help

[FenceFurniture]

It all revolves around a hidden verb, which makes the grammar incorrect. So maybe "Hidden Verb Puns".

[Dodgy Dovetails]

Mate, you have got the gist of it.

Your second one is more Austentayshus than it is right on message, but it is good in its own right as a varietal.

Your third one works much better if you spell "barramundi" correctly, as this gives you the requisite level of absurdity needed to sustain the humour - important point that.

Your first one is inspired by Fence Furniture's guillotine gag and is in the same quality league as that one is. Expectorant? Love it! Both disgusting and funny at the same time

As for your last one, I thought Fess Parker was dead? And he was such a noble and upright figure I thought you'd never want to confess. (Though as you have already admitted doing it, I'm struggling to define the difference.)

As for the rest of you, I admire your enthusiasm, but I'm afraid you'll have to lift your game. Lame jokes and irrelevant puns aren't cutting the mustard. Maybe i'm still a bit miffed, given the dearth of quality material here, that Fence Furniture didn't award me the gong that he gave you. I would have thought that anyone, given the opportunity, would like to root canal therapy.

Where is my frigging gong mate?

[FenceFurniture]

Hey Dodgy, it is entirely possible that I'm missing something with yours, and I'm waiting for the penny to tinkle. Baz, the inventor of most of these gags, was very impressed with your effort. so on that basis you are very welcome to a gong (albeit by proxy). I certainly want to root canal therapy (I've had it), but who is getting dented? Ition? I was also struggling with which organ you were sensing (and the relevance). So I thought I'd stay schtum for a while to see if it came to me, y'see.

[Dodgy Dovetails]

Hey Dodgy, it is entirely possible that I'm missing something with yours, and I'm waiting for the penny to tinkle. Baz, the inventor of most of these gags, was very impressed with your effort. so on that basis you are very welcome to a gong (albeit by proxy). I certainly want to root canal therapy (I've had it), but who is getting dented? Ition? I was also struggling with which organ you were sensing (and the relevance). So I thought I'd stay schtum for a while to see if it came to me, y'see.

That's cool Fence, I forgot to add a smiley face to my entry.

Well, I was sensing pain you see, via the body's largest organ, the skin. In this case that area of it that makes up the interior of the mouth. Dentition is a dental term, and as far as I've worked out what you guys are up to "ition" is the nonsense part of the joke. I'm glad "Baz" got it anyway!

[FenceFurniture]

That's cool Fence, I forgot to add a smiley face to my entry.

Well, I was sensing pain you see, via the body's largest organ, the skin. In this case that area of it that makes up the interior of the mouth. Dentition is a dental term, and as far as I've worked out what you guys are up to "ition" is the nonsense part of the joke. I'm glad "Baz" got it anyway!

Yeah, no worries mate, I read it as with a smiley anyway. Actually I quite often leave a smiley out to keep it dry (you know, poker face and all that). When dropping humour on someone I get the best satisfaction when there's a slight delay before they get the joke, especially if they are slightly offended for a microsecond before they realise what's going on.

Just pondering the structure of these, and the key is that when spoken they make sense, but when read there is a missing verb. Now maybe that could be seen as pedantic, but it's the difference between a chuckle and a shout of laughter. Labr@'s expectorant gag was a classic example.

[Dodgy Dovetails]

That is a good technique! I'll remember that.

As for me, I always wanted to learn more about woodworking, but fewtel me.