Gygax vs Aubuchon Pun Battle Royale

What follows is an exchange that I had with Gary Gygax, the creator of Dungeons and Dragons, on the Fans For Christ forum in 2007. The posts are listed in order, and end with our respective first names.

I don't know about that. I get some great pun exchanges on the dragonsfoot boards--ine going on currently in fact Shocked

Cheerio,
Gary

Oh yeah? How many of them have peed on the party? Shocked

Jim

Urine guess is as good as mine, as in "Just call me Pee-Pee, and I'll be urine forever."

So while some folks make hay, your PC is making water, eh?

Rolling Eyes
Gary

Those are some potty good puns if you ask me!

Jim

Better than such lauds would be the tinkle of coins...


Cheerio,
Gary

Would you have my wealth make thee a pissant?

Jim

Do you speak of Kant? In amy case the wealth alluded to is that of peasant unpleasantries it would seem...

Ciao,
Gary

I won't Hegel with you, but it is categorically imperative that I uphold your honor. After all, not only are you the creator of the wizz-ard character class, but you are a wizz-ard at the making of puns. Therefore, rather than wee-ry you with that which moth and rust doth corrupt, I fall prostate gland-ly before you, considering you to be of much higher esteem than my pee-rs.

Jim

Such allusions as are now in play need a Krutch.

No kid-neying, though, some of those regarding elimination are renally quite clever.

Cheerio,
Gary

Naturally it is needed, with my profound lack of Modern Temper, or I would not have a leg to stand on. But Marx my words, I Walden be here if I hadn't Tolkien A Road Less Travelled. I had to Crowley out from the pit. Therefore cane it be any wonder that my A-Lewis-ions merely hobble along?

Jim

Oh brother! S'now it's a crack about Marx eh? I won't harpo-n the matter, but they are not chic-or go over with me like a led zeppo-lin. In short they make me grouch-oy!

The rest of those puns give me writer's Bloch.

Ciao,
Gary

Gummo-n now! I Felix you are being Ernst (for it is your name is it not?), but I Konrad tell. Just because you are having tribble with scribbles, does not mean that you can't Star-t the Trek towards telling The Story of Mankind. Go West if you have to. I would not mind if you took a Humor Risk here. I hope that this helps you Brecht out and find liberation, or perhaps the stairway to heaven itself.

Jim

All I have to say to that is, if I go West must I Grealy be a Horace Mann? Sorry, that is probably an ass-inine question/

Cheerio,
Gary

Wyatt colt'nt ewe Billy some kid into goat-ing along? He colt teach ewe to ride, and this tirrup would be much Faust-er. Houyhnhnm ewe Goethe there, ewe would be mare stable, and less likely to Whig out or give Earp.

Jim

Somehow all of that doesn't Ringo true to me. Rather a bag of mixed punafores, ranging from the US to anamalia to Germany, at least one rather sour, so I won't chew that cabbage twice.

Cheers,
Gary

I admit that my last set of puns were a-Paul-ing. Let's not Beatle a dead horse, but go on. Thanks for Lennon me a hand and not Harrison me too much about it.

Jim

Err...

Sorry Johnny, wrong Ringo. Ah well, you Clanton win 'em all so it's OK to dodge to another era and occupation even though the West was suggested, not Wessex.

Cheers,
Gary

Jesse because James (my name) took a Holliday from the West and chose a Liver pool of puns, does not mean that Ike can't go back and Corral some more for you. That's O.K. isn't it?

Jim

You blinked!

See the repetition of my punning OK before your use.

I win, but you can put "exchanged punplay with col Pladoh" on your Tombstone.

Cheerio,
Gary

Ah, but did you not see that I added the periods? So my pun was "Isn't it spelled O.K. and not OK?" Now if you had been Swift-er, and if you had gotten the right Mann, you would have Geothe-n the connection. But I re-Joyce that I could play so worthy an opponent. It appears that this game must now peter out. It appears that we have drained ourselves.

I concede to you...

Jim

Lennon vs Lewis Round 3

"Imagine all the people living for today" John Lennon Imagine

"The humans live in time but our Enemy[God] destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which our Enemy has of reality as a whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered them. He would therefore have them continually concerned either with eternity (which means being concerned with Him) or with the Present—either meditating on their eternal union with, or separation from, Himself, or else obeying the present voice of conscience, bearing the present cross, receiving the present grace, giving thanks for the present pleasure." CS Lewis The Screwtape Letters

Lennon vs Lewis Round 2

"No hell below us, above us only sky" - John Lennon Imagine

"But what, you ask, of earth? Earth, I think, will not be found by anyone to be in the end a very distinct place. I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell: and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself" CS Lewis The Great Divorce

Lennon vs Lewis

"Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try." - John Lennon

"Suppose we *have* only dreamed, or made up, all those things... Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours *is* the only world. Well it strikes me as a pretty poor one." - C.S. Lewis The Silver Chair