What are you New Year's Resolutions?

[Ram27]

be a better drummer

play music with more people

do alright in school

meet more people and don't be weird

[Shallowed]

Be less of a walking faux pas

[redbreegull]

only two beers tonight.

[qwerty sp]

I want to become a world classs couch potato

[duovamp]

Be better at saving money
Make it to a few more track days and autocross events this year
Be a better grandparent to my 5 grandchildren

[slunken]

[redbreegull]

fuck drunk, i'm resolutions

[duovamp]

Originally Posted by slunken

GOOD LORD

[wHATcOLOR]

can we make a group resolution to try to get mals marola's new nickname for billy to stick? it is Furry Corgan!

hahha!!!

https://www.instagram.com/williampcorgan/p/BsOP1JsFea8/

[Mals Marola]

crikes... i seem to have tickled wHATcOLOR more than the man in his avatar has "tickled" himself!

[FoolofaTook]

ah, to have earned the approval of whatcolor hiimself! surely, there is no greater bliss than that!

[wHATcOLOR]

the man in my avatar, as you call him, has a name. and that name is paul hem. PAUL HEM!

[wHATcOLOR]

Originally Posted by FoolofaTook

ah, to have earned the approval of whatcolor hiimself! surely, there is no greater bliss than that!

putting furry corgan on blast, that’s the greatest thing i can think of right now.

[Mals Marola]

oh yeah? mine is being on the receiving end of PAUL HEM

[D.]

#PAULHEMISHISNAME

[yo soy el mejor]

IT'S KID ROCK (PAUL HEM)!

[ovary]

my new years resolution is to post on netphoria more

[Shallowed]

You've made a good start, keep it up

[Shallowed]

Unless you've been banned previously, then kindly give up

[Mals Marola]

no need to already be making such crass assumptions, this ovary's only just begun!

[redbreegull]

it was ovary before it started

[ilikeplanets]

i request you all resolve to step up your pun game

[slunken]

How, then, did puns fall from grace, to become the recipient of groans and moans and McSweeney’s articles all about how terrible they are?

In part, it seems they were bound by the printing press.

“Printing, by its very nature, placed more binding demands on language,” Pollack wrote in his book. “Surely and steadily, it helped transform what had been an oral culture into a written one and forced writers, punsters included, to commit to a single spelling before the type was set.” Then dictionaries like Johnson’s came along and defined the boundaries of words further.

Then Twitter came along and now a punster can hardly get one out before people start telling him to delete his account, or trying to shame the punster by just tweeting the person’s first name with a period. (In these examples from a couple of my punny colleagues, you will also see people booing, threatening to throw their phones into traffic, or just saying “No.”)

step it down, in fact.

[toase]

win the lottery
work less
go to a spa
do something with my life