Saints sign Josh Ball off practice squad

[Teague31]

Just when I thought this year couldn’t get any worse

 

[visionary]

This roster is sooooo loaded

Stephen is right

 

[plasticman]

An era has ended.

 

[AbeBeta]

You haven't underestimated their cultural relevance. (I personally don't even like the band) But those who know the song, such as I assume the poster I quoted does, would get it.

Pun:
a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.

yeah, but you capitalized it -- you lost the pun claim there. You literally signaled that you were referring to a different meaning. I know the level of discourse on this board trends toward too stupid for folks to get your pun unless you signal it ... but it really isn't a pun if you need to give hints as to the alternative meaning.

English has rules. Capitalized is a proper noun. Not capitalized is clearly a different word. You killed your own pun.

 

[dogunwo]

Smart teams raid potential on other teams practice squads this time of year.

 

[Zman5]

Saints already working on hiring MM by taking players from our roster.

 

[DCreppinBoysfan]

Any Cowboys fan would be forgiven for not knowing Josh Ball was even still around.

Man I forgot Damone Clark was still on the team until last week

 

[Runwildboys]

yeah, but you capitalized it -- you lost the pun claim there. You literally signaled that you were referring to a different meaning. I know the level of discourse on this board trends toward too stupid for folks to get your pun unless you signal it ... but it really isn't a pun if you need to give hints as to the alternative meaning.

English has rules. Capitalized is a proper noun. Not capitalized is clearly a different word. You killed your own pun.

I don't see any caveat about capitalizing in the definition.

"...or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings."

Regardless of upper or lower case, they are two words that sound alike, but have different meanings.

 

[Prossman2]

Thank God!!!!

 

[cowboyschmps3]

They also took Daniels who they signed 2 weeks ago, we hardly knew ya!

 

[noshame]

That's the way the Ball bounces sometimes.

Good Lord