ELOISE LIKES WRITING: MY POSITION ON PUNS
My position on puns:
If you're giving me a slice of cake and you stop to put some sprinkles on it, that makes the cake better. But in a non-cake context, I don't want you to hand me a handful of sprinkles.
Similarly, if you're answering a question or telling a story or otherwise already in a conversation, your words are the cake, and stopping to add pun sprinkles makes the words more enjoyable by making them slightly more clever and entertaining. But making a post that's just one sentence with a pun is handing me a handful of sprinkles.
[A friend's response to this post: "No disagreement except that I *love* to eat sprinkles straight from the can."]
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