"This pun generator will at times insult, and at other times, delight."

April 18, 2023 12:37 PM

Pun generator [via mefi projects]
posted by mandolin conspiracy (46 comments total)

This, um, puts the pun in pun-gent?
posted by tempestuoso at 12:42 PM on April 18, 2023 [1 favorite]

This is fun. I didn’t get anything particularly biting, but still enjoyed it.

The real tragedy is because this is phonetic it will never accuse me of putting the meow in homeowner or the canoes in volcanoes.
posted by aubilenon at 12:51 PM on April 18, 2023 [10 favorites]

Also what I’d really like to see is cross referencing the soundex matches (or whatever) with etymological data (e.g., etymological wordnet) to axe all the cases where it’s close enough to basically be the same word. I do put the potion in potions, and the access in inaccessible, but so does everyone else so it’s not a big deal.
posted by aubilenon at 12:57 PM on April 18, 2023 [1 favorite]

You put the ATTIC in HIPPOCRATIC.
posted by hippybear at 1:01 PM on April 18, 2023 [1 favorite]

YOU PUT THE SUBCOMMANDER IN SUBCOMMANDERS.
posted by grobstein at 1:02 PM on April 18, 2023 [2 favorites]

YOU PUT THE OOOHS IN RING-AROUND-THE-ROSY.

I did not know that.

Also why is ooze spelled ooohs?
posted by flabdablet at 1:04 PM on April 18, 2023 [1 favorite]

You put the MERICA in NUMERICA.
posted by Quonab at 1:05 PM on April 18, 2023 [1 favorite]

You put the RAM in the RAMA LAMA DING DONG.
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 1:09 PM on April 18, 2023 [8 favorites]

YOU PUT THE GEISHA IN INTERROGATION.

This feels like a microfiction prompt. I like it!
posted by momus_window at 1:10 PM on April 18, 2023 [9 favorites]

YOU PUT THE WRECK IN UNRECOGNIZED.

I'm sure at one point, someone said this to me in college on a Sunday morning.
posted by phong3d at 1:26 PM on April 18, 2023

YOU PUT THE RONNY IN TEHRANI

Looks like the Capitol Steps got back together.
posted by phong3d at 1:27 PM on April 18, 2023 [3 favorites]

YOU PUT THE URGENCY IN COUNTERINSURGENCY.
posted by aubilenon at 1:31 PM on April 18, 2023 [7 favorites]

YOU PUT THE CETACEAN IN SOLICITATIONS

she said to the guy selling rides on the whale watching cruise.
posted by dbscissors at 1:32 PM on April 18, 2023 [6 favorites]

YOU PUT THE HEIFER IN HEIFERS.

I guess they can't all be winners...
posted by the tartare yolk at 1:33 PM on April 18, 2023 [1 favorite]

Metafilter: YOU PUT THE AARGH IN ARGUING
posted by dbscissors at 1:35 PM on April 18, 2023 [7 favorites]

You put the CAPS in the CAPSLOCK.

wrong thread
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 1:38 PM on April 18, 2023 [1 favorite]

It puts the NO in NONSENSE.
posted by Greg_Ace at 1:42 PM on April 18, 2023

YOU PUT THE ODDITY IN COMMODITY
posted by glonous keming at 1:43 PM on April 18, 2023 [2 favorites]

Apparently I put the wrench in French Polynesia. I'm sorry.
posted by phooky at 2:03 PM on April 18, 2023 [5 favorites]

YOU PUT THE MOBILE IN MOBILIARE...
OH, OH
NEL BLU DIPINTO DI BLU!
posted by clavdivs at 2:03 PM on April 18, 2023

YOU PUT THE GRATE IN GREATEST.

YOU PUT THE DRUNK IN DRUNKARD.

YOU PUT THE WATER IN WATERBOTTLES.

Fair enough.
posted by doift at 2:22 PM on April 18, 2023 [2 favorites]

I was hoping I'd maybe put the MEFI in MEPHISTOPHELES...

Instead, apparently I put the BARMAN IN DISBARMENT. I guess that tracks.
posted by kleinsteradikaleminderheit at 2:27 PM on April 18, 2023 [3 favorites]

you put the LOTION in the BASKET
posted by Greg_Ace at 2:45 PM on April 18, 2023 [4 favorites]

the woman who put the rarin’ back in librarian.
posted by MtDewd at 2:50 PM on April 18, 2023

Sorry to be a spoilsport, but from my experience, these are not puns. Puns should be a surprise.
posted by njohnson23 at 2:57 PM on April 18, 2023 [1 favorite]

I’ve been putting the MEOW in HOMEOWNERSHIP ever since we bought the house with the undisclosed community cat colony attached.

In my field of work, it’s not rare to meet a guy who puts the DOUCHE in FIDUCIARY.
posted by armeowda at 3:04 PM on April 18, 2023 [7 favorites]

Yeah, I don't think they're puns, or at best bad puns.
But they're really interesting.
posted by MtDewd at 3:16 PM on April 18, 2023

YOU PUT THE NORMAL IN NORMALIZE.

No, YOU put the LIES in NORMALIZE. (Ye gods, that Dominion Voting Machine settlement, that's a helluva thing.)
posted by k3ninho at 3:32 PM on April 18, 2023 [3 favorites]

YOU PUT THE SENSE IN SENSELESS is not bad.
posted by y2karl at 3:48 PM on April 18, 2023 [1 favorite]

I(gor) put the ABBIE in ABNORMAL.
posted by Greg_Ace at 4:33 PM on April 18, 2023 [1 favorite]

YOU PUT THE ITCHES IN BITCHES is pretty good.
YOU PUT THE ENEMA IN TENEMENTS not bad.
YOU PUT THE AYNES IN CAMPAIGNS gave me a chuckle because it is so close.
YOU PUT THE ROTOTILL IN ROTOTILLED for some reason this is extremely funny to me.
posted by rodlymight at 5:11 PM on April 18, 2023 [3 favorites]

YOU PUT THE FORMER IN OUTPERFORMER.

Ouch.

YOU PUT THE CHORE IN CHORTLING.

Aw jeez

YOU PUT THE LOUGH IN PFLAUM.

I don't know either of those words, but I'm assuming the worst.
posted by aubilenon at 5:18 PM on April 18, 2023 [5 favorites]

YOU PUT THE ROQUE IN STROKING
posted by slogger at 5:41 PM on April 18, 2023

YOU PUT THE ALLATIO IN FELLATIO!!
(cuz fellatio lacks some allatio, that's for sure.) Folks, I'm not sure this'll work.
posted by Floydd at 6:48 PM on April 18, 2023

YOU PUT THE INSTANCE IN INSTANCES.

Not quite ready to revolutionize the online comedy world, I think.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 7:27 PM on April 18, 2023

Not quite ready to revolutionize the online comedy world, I think.

Look, nobody's gonna revolutionize the online comedy world by telling the same kind of jokes as everyone else.
posted by aubilenon at 8:51 PM on April 18, 2023 [1 favorite]

But you still need to tell good ones.

I acknowledge the irony that I of all people am saying that
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:50 PM on April 18, 2023

I put the SUPREMACIST in SUPREMACISTS. 🥺
posted by Phanx at 2:50 AM on April 19, 2023

Alternative:

You put the CYST in SUPREMACIST
posted by Greg_Ace at 10:22 AM on April 19, 2023 [2 favorites]

Oh yeah? Well, you put the uncle in carbuncle, the oils in boils, the pimp in pimple and the essence in excrescence.
posted by flabdablet at 1:10 PM on April 19, 2023 [2 favorites]

Maybe so, but I also put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong.
posted by Greg_Ace at 1:14 PM on April 19, 2023

That was YOU!? YOU did that?

We're comeDONE.
posted by flabdablet at 3:25 PM on April 19, 2023

I submitted ten puns to a pun-writing contest, hoping that one or two of them might win, but... no pun in ten did.
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 6:43 PM on April 19, 2023 [3 favorites]

There's no such thing as a bad pun. Just unappreciative audiences.
posted by hippybear at 8:00 PM on April 20, 2023 [1 favorite]

Oh yeah? Well, you put the uncle in carbuncle, the oils in boils, the pimp in pimple and the essence in excrescence.

Yeah, well, just don't go PUTTING THE PISS IN PISSANT, mmm, 'K?
posted by y2karl at 11:19 PM on April 20, 2023

You put the BOURBON in SUBURBANITES.
posted by dywypi at 1:09 PM on April 21, 2023 [3 favorites]