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# you're getting the sentence
'its a pun'

and

'this is a word that sounds a bit like another word'

mixed up
(, Sun 6 Nov 2005, 14:35, archived)
# Puns are often
homophones. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
(, Sun 6 Nov 2005, 14:37, archived)
# homophones?
That sounds very gay! ;D
(, Sun 6 Nov 2005, 14:38, archived)
# they "ring you", and make you gay
(, Sun 6 Nov 2005, 14:40, archived)
# like in the motion picture "The Ring"?
You have seven days before you turn to the gay side?
(, Sun 6 Nov 2005, 14:42, archived)
# no,
(, Sun 6 Nov 2005, 14:46, archived)
# a ghost who likes horses you say?
(, Sun 6 Nov 2005, 14:51, archived)
# They are headphones which make you gay
AICMFP
(, Sun 6 Nov 2005, 14:40, archived)
# Wikipedia says...
"A pun...consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words or phrases for rhetorical effect."

So there. :-P
(, Sun 6 Nov 2005, 14:40, archived)
# feels told
although wikipedia is a huge pile of batty :)
(, Sun 6 Nov 2005, 15:01, archived)