The Lowest Form of Humour? (Puns, Double Entendres, and Changing The Subject For
No Good Reason)
Doug Pederson clearly has a great love for wordplay. He frequently incorporates
puns and double entendres in his forum discussions and real-life actions, to the
point of absurdity. For example, he
describes his appearance in an old picture thusly: "That picture was from
1993 I ran in the federal election. The riding was named Yellowhead. I was Yellowhead."
For Pederson, the idea of painting his head yellow to run in the Yellowhead riding
was apparently an incredibly clever and funny play on words, and would guarantee
his success in the election.
As another example, when a forum member jokingly suggested Pederson run for the
office of Canadian Prime Minister, he responded:
"That was the only promise I made to the People of YellowHead. That I would never
Run again. Next time I would turn and fight. I never ran before 1993 for anything
and never will."
In his response, Pederson managed to "cleverly" change the meaning of "run" from
"campaign for political office" to "run away".
When opportunities for great double entendres dry up, Pederson is always at the
ready with a subtle and ingenious pun: "The most powerful stones on the planet.
The greatest program on the planet. Weird coinci-dance isn't it?"
Of course, "coinci-dance" is a reference to Pederson's propensity for dancing with
his magical rocks to gain some sort of mystical favour
for himself or to curse his enemies.
If insanely funny puns and double meanings are not enough, Pederson will also randomly
change the subject entirely, based on some implausible alternative meaning of a
word or phrase under discussion:
From TDWTF:
"This sure doesn't look good for NetSquares.org. Treating Me like that, is almost
like snubbing the [Medicine] Stones. Not a
wise move.
Oh yeah I got the same birthdate as [Rolling Stone] Mick Jagger. I'm 5 years
less old."
In the context of the original discussion, Pederson was clearly referring to his
magic Medicine Stones. However, he abruptly changed
the subject to the Rolling Stones, for no apparent reason. Is it possible that Pederson
himself forgot what he was talking about?
Further proof of Pederson's propensity for pithy puns can be found on random forums
at an internets near you:
Another TDWTF
Example:
"I started working for Capital Cable. They went through a name change to Shaw Cable.
Making me a Shawman."
Credit: CodeSimian -- TDWTF