<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701757403364514168.post8130423318952028726..comments</id><updated>2009-12-15T13:01:18.922-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Games with Words: The science of puns</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/feeds/8130423318952028726/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7701757403364514168/8130423318952028726/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2009/12/science-of-puns.html'/><author><name>josh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12809501199806590382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701757403364514168.post-9059197998884086410</id><published>2009-12-15T13:01:18.922-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-15T13:01:18.922-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Literal-minded: Thanks for the suggestion. I'm jus...</title><content type='html'>Literal-minded: Thanks for the suggestion. I&amp;#39;m just starting to work through the pun literature, and I haven&amp;#39;t gotten to that one yet.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7701757403364514168/8130423318952028726/comments/default/9059197998884086410'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7701757403364514168/8130423318952028726/comments/default/9059197998884086410'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2009/12/science-of-puns.html?showComment=1260900078922#c9059197998884086410' title=''/><author><name>josh</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15107067137612954306</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='07234144519117288995'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2009/12/science-of-puns.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701757403364514168.post-8130423318952028726' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7701757403364514168/posts/default/8130423318952028726' type='text/html'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701757403364514168.post-7212696243248933570</id><published>2009-12-14T16:54:25.304-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-14T16:54:25.304-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Arnold Zwicky wrote a paper about puns back in the...</title><content type='html'>Arnold Zwicky wrote a paper about puns back in the 1980s, I think. You might check with him to see if it&amp;#39;s one of those that he&amp;#39;s digitally scanned and made available.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7701757403364514168/8130423318952028726/comments/default/7212696243248933570'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7701757403364514168/8130423318952028726/comments/default/7212696243248933570'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2009/12/science-of-puns.html?showComment=1260827665304#c7212696243248933570' title=''/><author><name>literalminded</name><uri>http://literalminded.wordpress.com/</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2009/12/science-of-puns.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701757403364514168.post-8130423318952028726' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7701757403364514168/posts/default/8130423318952028726' type='text/html'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701757403364514168.post-127732105987741143</id><published>2009-12-10T00:24:34.322-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T00:24:34.322-05:00</updated><title type='text'>PS -- For those of you who tried the experiment wh...</title><content type='html'>PS -- For those of you who tried the experiment when it was broken: you may need to empty your browser&amp;#39;s cache before trying the experiment again. Some browsers helpfully store files so you don&amp;#39;t have to download them again, so it&amp;#39;ll just give you the old broken file again. In any case, this is what happened to me with Safari when I was testing the fixed version. For Safari &amp;quot;empty cache&amp;quot; is in the Safari menu.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7701757403364514168/8130423318952028726/comments/default/127732105987741143'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7701757403364514168/8130423318952028726/comments/default/127732105987741143'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2009/12/science-of-puns.html?showComment=1260422674322#c127732105987741143' title=''/><author><name>coglanglab</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12809501199806590382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16975503002964957247'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2009/12/science-of-puns.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701757403364514168.post-8130423318952028726' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7701757403364514168/posts/default/8130423318952028726' type='text/html'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701757403364514168.post-3430181793007037758</id><published>2009-12-10T00:17:35.080-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T00:17:35.080-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Many thanks. Yesterday I fixed some spelling error...</title><content type='html'>Many thanks. Yesterday I fixed some spelling errors in a few of the puns (they were pulled for a user-contributed website, so there are a lot of spelling errors and I keep finding new ones) and in the process broke the Flash file.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It should work now.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7701757403364514168/8130423318952028726/comments/default/3430181793007037758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7701757403364514168/8130423318952028726/comments/default/3430181793007037758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2009/12/science-of-puns.html?showComment=1260422255080#c3430181793007037758' title=''/><author><name>coglanglab</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12809501199806590382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16975503002964957247'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2009/12/science-of-puns.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701757403364514168.post-8130423318952028726' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7701757403364514168/posts/default/8130423318952028726' type='text/html'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701757403364514168.post-500907169880611420</id><published>2009-12-09T23:30:35.470-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-09T23:30:35.470-05:00</updated><title type='text'>What anon said -- thirded.</title><content type='html'>What anon said -- thirded.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7701757403364514168/8130423318952028726/comments/default/500907169880611420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7701757403364514168/8130423318952028726/comments/default/500907169880611420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2009/12/science-of-puns.html?showComment=1260419435470#c500907169880611420' title=''/><author><name>Psi Wavefunction</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10829712736757471647</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2009/12/science-of-puns.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701757403364514168.post-8130423318952028726' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7701757403364514168/posts/default/8130423318952028726' type='text/html'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701757403364514168.post-3679837761489006926</id><published>2009-12-09T19:11:34.694-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-09T19:11:34.694-05:00</updated><title type='text'>What anonymous said, on both occasions. (Tried twi...</title><content type='html'>What anonymous said, on both occasions. (Tried twice.)</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7701757403364514168/8130423318952028726/comments/default/3679837761489006926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7701757403364514168/8130423318952028726/comments/default/3679837761489006926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2009/12/science-of-puns.html?showComment=1260403894694#c3679837761489006926' title=''/><author><name>Dick Margulis</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10169512038331158003</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2009/12/science-of-puns.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701757403364514168.post-8130423318952028726' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7701757403364514168/posts/default/8130423318952028726' type='text/html'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701757403364514168.post-3609502697979739089</id><published>2009-12-09T17:07:12.253-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-09T17:07:12.253-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The more I think about it the more I think the off...</title><content type='html'>The more I think about it the more I think the offending sentence was the first one from the he/she experiment.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7701757403364514168/8130423318952028726/comments/default/3609502697979739089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7701757403364514168/8130423318952028726/comments/default/3609502697979739089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2009/12/science-of-puns.html?showComment=1260396432253#c3609502697979739089' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2009/12/science-of-puns.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701757403364514168.post-8130423318952028726' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7701757403364514168/posts/default/8130423318952028726' type='text/html'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701757403364514168.post-3012891218128143156</id><published>2009-12-09T12:14:44.255-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-09T12:14:44.255-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I clicked on I don't understand on the first pun (...</title><content type='html'>I clicked on I don&amp;#39;t understand on the first pun (it relied on a nonsense word) and I got kicked out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Huh?</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7701757403364514168/8130423318952028726/comments/default/3012891218128143156'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7701757403364514168/8130423318952028726/comments/default/3012891218128143156'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2009/12/science-of-puns.html?showComment=1260378884255#c3012891218128143156' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2009/12/science-of-puns.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7701757403364514168.post-8130423318952028726' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7701757403364514168/posts/default/8130423318952028726' type='text/html'/></entry></feed>