We're late getting started, and this is a short month, but I hope the topic is open enough for everyone to get an idea and run with it.

Visualizing Puns

In this stressful time, with politics, war, the faltering economy and unpredictable weather dominating the news cycles, we could perhaps use a spot of humor. Those who remember Jimmy Durante's character literally kicking the bucket in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" or the old coot who's Frogger croaked in Scavenger Hunt know that even death can be mocked. Therefore, I'm suggesting Visualizing Puns as a theme.

A sweeping victory... with Nike and a broom? A flood of applications? Couch potatoes vegetating? The walls have ears? Bedding plants with a line of mattresses? Kingseal as a sovereign remedy? A batty uncle (baseball trophy)? Mouse drivers? The big cheese?

Proverbs, fables, Brewer's Dictionary of phrases can supply ideas if you get stuck. Even a horrible joke such as "time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana" can be a starting point!

Texture makers could do something like an expensive hunting license (cost him deerly!) or the fabric of space/time! or stuff of dreams! or tissue of lies! (yes, those are all puns)

Modelers might think of pipe dreams (tubes, elbows, valves made of smoke), a safety match, a bad egg, or caterpillars and caterwauls (columns and walls with cats).

Folks who write can join the fun since the link between words and the images formed goes both ways. How about an iPod of Wails with a playlist of blues favorites? Or a tall tale about Paul Bunyan and another giant going measure for measure?

Whatever we come up with, the viewer or reader ought to choke, sputter, and/or giggle at the results.

Let's play!

congrats - i love the new theme. this one is a "bashing machine" this is a political gif animation - the head is my personal preference - it can be replaced by any head you want

"The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train"

Thanks, Carolly, for coming up with an amazing theme! I think it will be a great challenge!

Let's run this until the last week of February, I will give you a day or so heads up and if anyone needs more time they can let me know. You may enter an existing work if you like, but we would prefer to see a new work created for this challenge... it IS a challenge after all, lol! You may enter more than one work, but remember that in the voting, each entry will be judged separately. Please, please, please put titles on your entries, especially if you have more than one.

Let your creativity flow!!!

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!

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solving problems - do we have to talk so much when action is needed?

"The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train"

Well, you're off and running! pawn shop... groan!

my pawn shop is a "pawn" shop, not a "pawn shop" :lol: (funny language, english)

"The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train"

pawn and porn! Huge difference!

bwtr

Philosiraptor

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Ockham's razor- It's that simple

Stupid Hammer!

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Ockham's razor- It's that simple

love these! hope there will be more coming.

"The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train"

never understood 'waiting for godot' - what if it was just miscommunication?

"The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train"

something like this?

Attached Link: Make Street Signs Here

{{{chuckle}}}

How about a street sign for some surreal estate?

FARFARA WAY

hehe, great word play HD!

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Ockham's razor- It's that simple

wasn't it just misspelled? :lol:

"The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train"

Attached Link: tombstone generator

I hate it when my message gets lost because I clicked on the wrong tab. Dratted migraine!!!

Anyway... a misspelling is reading FRST as the abbreviation for First and not for Forest. HUSAN FRST would probably have only worked for baseball and Three Stooges fans anyway. sigh

This is not a Tombstone!

There are Tombstone Generators, too. Some offer 4 or 5 lines for poets to decorate with words. No art tools or skills needed, so this is part of why I'd hoped that the writers and others could join in the play. Here, I'm playing on Magritte's "This is not a Pipe."

One of the tombstone sites had skeletons lounging in the graveyard (which offers scope for all sorts of puns with bones), but it was flash, so no way to effectively save the image.

Attached Link: bake cookies here!

And if you truly hunger after bad puns, you can see how the cookie crumbles in a fortune cookie factory! Or maybe the Wheel of Fortune is a cookie cutter?

LUCKY BREAK

My favorite fortune was one I got decades ago from an upscale restaurant: "make friendship more lasting: seal someone in plastic" and I can't think of anything to top that. Sorry.

http://www.redkid.net/generator/fortune/

There are generators of church signs and love notes and such, too. If you need ideas for church signs, the REAL ones can be extremely funny, and there are books of them!!

http://crummychurchsigns.blogspot.com/

Again, anybody with a sense of humor and two fingers to type with can play along. simply Google for various generators

Well here's my try- dedicated and with Thanks to Monty Python for the style idea!
"Train of Thought"
:-D

And I thought I was wierd. I just don't get what's going on here.

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And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...

TheBryster,

We're having fun playing with words and images, making puns in obvious (visual) ways. You know how children play with their food? Remember that scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind where the grown man turned a plate of mashed potatoes into the Mother Ship's landing site? Yes, he was playing with his food, but in a rather more recognizably artistic fashion. ;)

Let's assume that your primary tool is Bryce and your focus is creating landscapes. Where do your interests lie? The classics? Homer sang of a "wine dark sea"... Ruby waves, Greek ship, crewman filling his beaker over the side! Astronomy? The sky is full of imagery like a "Milky Way" with white jugs in lieu of stars. Or have astronauts discovering mermaids in the Sea of Tranquility. Genealogy (ok, I paused and peeked): Family tree! (In fact, trees are almost too full of puns, given that bark, branch, root, leaf, etc., all have many meanings.)

You can slap a different and unexpected texture upon your deserts to get desserts... rock candy for the pun-within-a-pun! A river bank? Well, bank is a chair, and a place where finances are transferred and held, and you can bank coals and airplanes and billiard balls, so almost anything with a steep slope can be punned upon. As for river? Well, the word actually means that which cuts or divides (rive, riven): whether it is the Styx or the Rubicon, crossing the river usually is more significant than following it.

You can start with a terrain or with a prop... let's say that you need an excuse to use a loom... looming disaster, warped threads, spinning a yarn, shuttle diplomacy... you can take a simple prop and go out in any direction to find the humor in it.

I'm going to try to create something pretty this month as my real entry, but meanwhile have quickly thrown up humorous bits to nudge others into light-heartedness.

Carolly

OK Got it!
And many thanks for the incredible explanation.
:b_stunned:

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And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...

I'm having fun just watching everyone! Bryster, I know you can do this, LOL!

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!

Attached Link: Planet Perplex

Viv,

So far I've thrown up filler pieces as idea-starters, and will remove them from competition as more stuff comes in or I get something serious finished. They are intended to get people thinking as well as groaning. Meanwhile, giggles and chuckles are good. My favorite so far is the Philosiraptor.

Here's another link to a site with some gorgeous and twisted art. I even learned a new word to play with. ;^)

http://www.planetperplex.com/en/index.html

Carolly

How about this one? ** The tea looks so good that James decided to join his kidney in a mug of tea. **

Is this a play on words?

It's bad, I know... but that's the only way I know how to dress up a pun...

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9/11/2001: Never forget...

Smiles are contagious... Pass it on!

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday

Writer's Block!

ouch, ouch, and double ouch!!

(and ra3vyn's entry is subtly elegant, too)

What is a pun? Seriously... It's nothing more than a play on words...

I guess you saw that coming, eh? :lol:

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9/11/2001: Never forget...

Smiles are contagious... Pass it on!

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday

I suddenly got this and now I have one I can do too, but if anyone uses my idea I'm gonna lose it big time...;-)

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And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...

Quote - I suddenly got this and now I have one I can do too, but if anyone uses my idea I'm gonna lose it big time...;-)

-- TheBryster
Then post it here quickly!!! I just did the play on words while I was putting up the kidney and James in mug of tea.. Soooo... just do it! or be :sneaky:

Get my drift?

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9/11/2001: Never forget...

Smiles are contagious... Pass it on!

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday

the train of thought has been used already, bryster :lol:

"The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train"

How did you know I was gonna do that??????????????

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And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...

i'm psychic :lol: - but a second one does not harm, so don't mind me and please post it, it will be different from the other one anyway

"The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train"

Quote - How did you know I was gonna do that??????????????

Hey Bryster... Be careful or you just might have to eat your words!!! [hint][hint]

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9/11/2001: Never forget...

Smiles are contagious... Pass it on!

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday

@ thunderstone - did you mean something like this?

"The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train"

Heh tthis is good , I like the eat your word's one , Great thread so far , 2 questions:
When is finishing date ?
& is partial nudity allowed ?
If not I guess I can work around that issue :/

@koosievantutte: Well yeah... something like that :b_funny:

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9/11/2001: Never forget...

Smiles are contagious... Pass it on!

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday

@coldwartendencies: the matter came never up before, but i think that if it's within the tos it would be ok
(were you thinking about being caught with your pants down?)

oh, yeah, finishing date roughly at the end of the month

"The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train"

ColdWarTendancies: You should already have read this when you signed up to Renderosity.[

http://www.renderosity.com/tos.php](http://www.renderosity.com/tos.php)

(Sends CWT into the corner for a good read.)

Regards
The Bryster
Bryce Forum Coordinator

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And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...

@ bryster: still waiting if you put your image where your writing is (if one could say that)

"The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train"

*@ bryster: still waiting if you put your image where your writing is (if one could say that)

????

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And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...

you were going to do a train of thoughts, i thought.

"The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train"

Koosie: What you said didn't make sense.

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And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...

Train is a great word! The French use it even more than we do, but even in English, there are training camps and training wheels and fitness trainers and roses trained against a wall.

Another good word is "press" as in express, suppress, oppress, depress, and repress! So, I have a pressing engagement at the laundromat or at the newsroom or at the winery?

And how about "land"? Landing a fish or landing a job or making landfall?

Fasteners of all sorts offer multiple opportunities to bind words and images in the metagame:

Knot/naughty/nought
Tack (ship's course, thumbtacks, tacky little house, tacky glue)
Tie (necktie, tie one on, tie the knot, fit to be tied, thai food, tai chi)
Staples and Buttons and Snaps! (Why do people click their fingers when they get an idea? Because the synapses just fired!) sorry

As for nudity? Well, naked singularities, bald-faced lies, bare truths, and undressed salads come to mind and I doubt if any of them would violate the TOS (although I have seen some sensuous veggies). Naked ambition is trickier. I don't think anybody wants to see candidates for public office debating in the nude (although exposure on the balcony was part of the coronation ritual for centuries when the health of the king was tied to the health of the land).

Well time for me to get more coffee and something for the migraine, but it is soooo good to see folks having fun!

I thought Train Of Thought was on the 1st Page , A reference inspired by Monty Python , With the guys head open & trains emitting from

Maybe am lost

Thanks The Bryster for placing me in the dark damp corner with the D Paper Hat (I have studied & abide by those)

Caught with my pants down ? Hell no Koosie :p

Tc all!

lol Yup Thanks to Monty Python for the style (Head flipped open, things coming out) but the train and thoughts were all my idea, I could have done a train with the words "thought" as passengers but decided on a more comedic turn ;)

Jo x (Ra3vyn)

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INCLINED PLANE

That is one of Galileo's six simple machines, and is usually encountered in a carpenter's toolbox. Between the scientists and the punsters, things aren't quite as simple anymore!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclined_plane

Ok , My (Very poorly presented) image:

Curves Ahead

BIG CREDITS TO : EVIL INNOCENCE - For the free L33T Wear usd

Eh , Me & Poser dont get on & am is sleep deprived

Poser 7 , Default P4 Woman & Psp

Let's try to close this Thursday night. If anyone needs more time, let me know. I'm really tickled by these very clever images!

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!

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Sometimes you just got to...

***Cut the Cheese

Joe
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This is NOT a challenge entry...just wanted to share this photo I did awhile ago! koosievantutte image "eat your words" is so similar to it! This is actually titled "Food for thought"

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Joe
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Shouldn't that be 'Cut the Mustard' ?

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All the Woes of a World by Jonathan Icknield aka The Bryster

And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...

Nope..not mustard ....CHEESE!

This link will....ahem... hopefully CLEAR THE AIR!!!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cut+the+cheese

Joe

There was a sign on the lawn at a drug re-hab center that said 'Keep off the Grass'....

Hello everyone.
I'm new here...well it's been a very long time. 2002 was my last upload! I just got a new computer and wow..it's great to be back!!!! This is only my 2nd piece since being back...it's gonna take awhile to back into the swing of things. Done in Bryce 6 and all post done in PSP 7!

Welcome back!

That's an appropriately-placed sign.

BTW, when I worked for a nursery/florist back in the late 70's, I sometimes wore a large green button that said

I Push Grass

in wavy letters.

fescue, bluegrass,.... seed or sod ready to roll out and pat into place... ;^)

Carolly

it's better tp push grass than daisies, or am i wrong?

"The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train"

It's really nice to see a bit more participation this month! We have 2 pages of images this month, so be sure to look at them all. It's time to let the voting begin! The voting will be in this thread, after this entry. You get to choose your 3 favorite entries, giving each of them 3, 2 or 1 points. Remember, you are choosing an entry, not an artist. If someone has posted more than one entry, you need to indicate which is your choice.

Your vote should look something like this:

Sweety - "Pied" - 3 points
Sin - "Sational" - 2 points
Super - "Impose" - 1 point

Feel free to nominate Honorable Mentions or make comments.

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!

voting is always the most difficult part of the challenge

icm - stupid hammer - 3 pts
ra3vn - train of thought - 2 pts
thunderstone - play on words - 1 pt.

"The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train"

I second that Koosie- it was hard for me to choose too :)

ICM - Philosiraptor - 3 Points
L8RDAZE - Cut the Cheese - 2 Points
KOOSIEVANTUTTE - Eat your words - 1 Point

Well Done everyone! :)

Yup, the hardest part. sigh Choosing.... Wait, can I hop the train of thought as it choo-chooses along? sorry

ICM - Philosiraptor - 3 Points

Ra3vyn - Writer's block - 2 Points

KOOSIEVANTUTTE - Pawn Shop - 1 Point

Honorable mentions to dancineyes for Keep off the Grass and L8RDAZE for Cut the Cheese.

This was fun and light-hearted for a winter month, with a fair number of giggles and groans. We can be serious artists next time. ;^)

ra3vn - train of thought - 3 pts
ICM - Philosiraptor - 2 Points
KOOSIEVANTUTTE - Eat your words - 1 Point

hauksdottir
FARFARA WAY - 3pts

Ra3vyn
Train of Thought - 2pts

ThunderStone
Play on Words - 1pt

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Ockham's razor- It's that simple

Please get your votes in, I will be closing this Challenge Thursday night, March 6 at 23:59! I hope to have the votes counted and the announcement of the winners up on Friday morning.

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!

hauksdottir
FARFARA WAY - 3pts

Ra3vyn
Train of Thought - 2pts

L8RDAZE
Cut the Cheese - 1pt

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9/11/2001: Never forget...

Smiles are contagious... Pass it on!

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday

ICM - Philosiraptor - 3
Hauksdottir - Farfara Way - 2
Ra3vyn - Train of thought -1

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All the Woes of a World by Jonathan Icknield aka The Bryster

And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...

nice ones, all of them, it took some time to understand what puns are, but i got it in the ens, i think.

ra3vyn- writers block--3points

dancineyes---2points

coldwartendencies-dangerous curve---1point

That was a really unusual challenge, and everyone showed great creativity! You all had me laughing the whole time! Thanks to all who participated and to those who cheered from the sidelines. I think that a good time was had by all. Without further ado...

Here's the count:

Tied for sixth place, with 1 point: ColdWarTendencies' Dangerous Curves and koosievantutte's Pawn Shop

Tied for fifth place, with 2 points: dancineyes' Keep Off The Grass, koosievantutte's Eat Your Words, Thunderstone's Play On Words and Ra3vyn's Writer's Block

Tied for fourth place, with 3 points: L8RDAZE's Cut the Cheese and ICM's Stupid Hammer

In third place, with 8 points: hauksdottir's Farfara Way

In second place, with 11 points: ICM's Philosoraptor

In first place, with 13 points: Ra3vyn's Train Of Thought

I was so tickled with the creativity that went into all these images. Congratulations to Ra3Vyn! Please choose a challenge for March :)

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!

Wonderful entries everyone, and Thank You, I certainly didn't expect to win and am honoured everyone enjoyed "Train of Thought" :))

I will be announcing the March challenge shortly- and I hope we have as much fun with it as we did with February's :)

Waves from Oz
Jo (Ra3vyn)

congratulations, jo! looking forward to what you choose as a challenge.

"The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train"

Congrats, Jo! Maybe the next time, you could do something with an OZ theme... :lol:

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9/11/2001: Never forget...

Smiles are contagious... Pass it on!

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday

congrats to ra3vyn. looking out for march.

Wonderful... I'm glad that the viewers had fun, too. :)

Even serious musicians get silly sometimes... listen for "Three Blind Mice" or "The Bear Went Over the Mountain" or "Frere Jacque" tucked into major intense works. Architects tuck cartoon characters into detail drawings of high-rises. Artists play with hidden images such as elongated skulls seen from a mark on the frame or upside-down faces or names written in the embroidery on a dress. We shouldn't have to hide it all the time. Like a clown in a parade, we have to put on our respectable clothes and go back to work the next week... though perhaps with an impish smile.

So, congratulations to ra3vyn!!! And to everyone who played along.

Let's see what challenge is up next?

Carolly

Forum: Challenge Arena

Subject: February Challenge: Puns!