So many people lining up to see the new Margot Robbie movie. Which is fair enough. After all, summertime is...

[Lowers shades]

Barbie queue season

[Flees]

It's now been pointed out that there's no accessible go-to article about the science of how/why puns have the effect on us they do.

I could definitely write such a thing, but would it be of interest to people? Just wondering if it's worth the time

@Garwboy is it worth the time? A good pun, Dean, is its own reword
@pikesley well-played! @Garwboy
Sounds like pun-ishment for most people, but I would eagerly read it!
@Garwboy depends on the grinpact factor vs the H(ate)-index.
@Garwboy I'm a big fan of comedy analysis - but I'm aware it's a niche interest, "nobody laughs and the frog dies" and all that.
@Garwboy I would read it. And I think I know a few other people who would too.
@Garwboy Quentin Cooper would, I’m sure, be interested. As would I.
@Garwboy <googles "how do I report people on this app">
@Garwboy 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Garwboy
Ah, but how many of them are doing it in Oppenheimer costume?
@Garwboy YOU GET BACK HERE AND TAKE YOUR PUN-ISHMENT YOU BRAT xD how dare you hurt my brain this bad. I only have two braincells left (luckily neither of them are required to see this movie).
@Garwboy This is the kind of content I’m here for.
@Garwboy
*csi miami intro music plays*
YEEEAAAHHHHHH!!!
@EverBeyondReach @Garwboy That was exactly what my brain did when I read this. I miss CSI Miami sometimes. Not often, but sometimes. My favourite part was the techno-lit club. I always wished that Stefon from SNL would show up in their lab and be like “Miami's hottest club is the Morgue. This club has everything - dead bodies, bubbling acids, pointy objects and a back room filled with creatures from Area 51”
@Garwboy This post prompted me to Google the neuroscience of puns. I found this report of a study from 2016: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/your-pun-divided-attention-how-the-brain-processes-wordplay/ but not much else. I find it hard to believe you haven't written a comprehensive article on the topic.
Your Pun-Divided Attention: How the Brain Processes Wordplay

To understand puns, the left and right brain hemispheres have to work together

Scientific American
@semiprime good point. I should probably do that.

@Garwboy Well, you could go see that other movie instead.

I hear it's The Bomb.

@Garwboy Take your star and get out.
@Garwboy There’s something with Oppenheimer and “new queue leer”, but it’s too early for me to figure out.
@Garwboy I can't wait for the gritty reboot
@Garwboy this one is so good it gets the triple-whammy boost/fav/comment treatment. Bravo!

@Garwboy god that’s awful.

I must tell everyone I know

@Garwboy

[laughs in defederation]

😉

@Garwboy
You must be a dad. Because that is a dad joke.  
@Garwboy There was a substantial Barbie queue to use the photo-op giant box in the lobby yesterday
@Garwboy shared with my three adult daughters who are going together to see Barbie this afternoon. I did not take credit for the “Dad” joke ;-)
@Garwboy That may be the "I'll see myself out" moment of the decade.
@Garwboy I liked this. I hate it but I like it.
@Garwboy I usually share appalling dad jokes with whoever is in the room with me...but this has crossed a line.
@stacey_campbell @Garwboy You just fucking shared it with me! :(

@Garwboy

I go see Margot R anywhere, except in a shill smith movie, fast & furious movie or a barbie movie.

@Garwboy How you think you can just skipper in here and tell a joke like that is beyond my ken.
@Garwboy but I like Memphis style, and this stuff is done like Ken-tucky
@Garwboy
Dean, you're going to burn in hell for that awful pun. LOL. I'm stealing it.
@Garwboy ouch, ouch, ouch, that was horrible! I loved it!
@Garwboy That joke made my partner groan. Success!