Warning for Word Play Lovers
Jan. 16th, 2026 11:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feng_shui_houseI followed a link about Uncleftish Beholding-a short scientific story/article published by Poul Anderson in 1989 in which he uses word play to replace most French/German/Latin derived words with Germanic words (inventing a lot of them).
That link led to other links, etc. Eventually I wound up on a Facebook group of glorious wordplay convos with punsters galore. It's one of the few Facebook links I tried that allowed non-Facebook me to keep scrolling- so the novelty of being able to look FOREVER kept me going until my right hand went OW!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/waywordradio/posts/10153722438023584/
*sample from very far down the DoomScroll*
Witnesses were quick to ascertain that the man who fell from the rooftop bar was not a bouncer.
He fell to the street below and was run over by a mass transportation vehicle. Turns out he was a busboy.
I knew a guy that fell from a three story deck into a large rubber plant and quickly rebounded. He got a new nickname, Basketball Jones.
He had recently ended a long term romance and was on the rebound.
With a twist, he fell on the rocks - there was a cliff below. You could call him quite a tumbler.
The bartender identified him as Tom Collins.
When they found him he was flat broke.
No but he was a well grounded person
That link led to other links, etc. Eventually I wound up on a Facebook group of glorious wordplay convos with punsters galore. It's one of the few Facebook links I tried that allowed non-Facebook me to keep scrolling- so the novelty of being able to look FOREVER kept me going until my right hand went OW!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/waywordradio/posts/10153722438023584/
*sample from very far down the DoomScroll*
Witnesses were quick to ascertain that the man who fell from the rooftop bar was not a bouncer.
He fell to the street below and was run over by a mass transportation vehicle. Turns out he was a busboy.
I knew a guy that fell from a three story deck into a large rubber plant and quickly rebounded. He got a new nickname, Basketball Jones.
He had recently ended a long term romance and was on the rebound.
With a twist, he fell on the rocks - there was a cliff below. You could call him quite a tumbler.
The bartender identified him as Tom Collins.
When they found him he was flat broke.
No but he was a well grounded person
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Date: 2026-01-16 04:52 pm (UTC)Fortunately, it was a low bar.