559: No Pun Intended

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No Pun Intended

Title text: Like spelling 'dammit' correctly -- with two m's -- it's a troll that works best on the most literate.

Explanation

Pretty self-explainatory - no pun intended.

Transcript

My Hobby: Appending "no pun intended" to lines with no pun in them. Random guy is talking to a guy with a beret Random guy: I think he's internalized his girlfriend's attitudes - no pun intended - and so... Template:Three hours later: Beret guy is thinking Beret guy: "Internalized?" Lied? Analyzed? Or is it "attitudes"? Dammit. {{alt: Like spelling 'dammit' correctly -- with two m's -- it's a troll that works best on the most literate.}

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Discussion

To be fair, internalising anything from a girlfriend... or a girlfriend internalising anything from a boyfriend.... could have some implications. Which wasn't intended here I'm sure. 122.148.216.22 08:21, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Perhaps, but that's not a pun. That's a double entendre in the strictest sense. Anonymous 05:29, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

This needs an incomplete flag. --Mynotoar (talk) 22:31, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

So, just give us a reason. --Dgbrt (talk) 22:55, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, the title text needs explanation, and I think it needs more detail, especially as it doesn't really explain the punchline. --Mynotoar (talk) 23:13, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

The incomplete tag is set. I did copy your remarks. --Dgbrt (talk) 20:32, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Is the fact that this explanation is set as incomplete ironic? Surely the point of this post is that there IS no punchline - the victim is searching the sentence for humour that does not exist. As the alt text explains, the more literate the victim, the more they will agonize over potential wordplay which is simply not present. 141.101.98.237 07:30, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Inserting "if you'll pardon the pun" into a phrase with no pun is a recurring joke on "A Bit of Fry and Laurie". 173.245.50.60 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

A great comeback to this, if you're quick enough to realize it, comes courtesy of the Get Fuzzy comic strip: "No pun... implemented." 173.245.56.61 18:59, 11 January 2016 (UTC)Krkn

Why are there two "citation needed"? I can see no way this would be true in the first case and there is a citation in the second case (P.S. did I do this right? First time using the discussion feature) 141.101.91.217 14:59, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

I think the explanation of the title text (at least the last part) isn't entirely relevant. The point is that literate people are likely to (over)correct "dammit" to "damn it" and respond to the troll, wasting time. Just like highly literate people will spend time worried about the pun they're supposedly missing. People who don't care won't waste time in either case. Making people waste time is the definition of successful trolling, so in these cases the trolling works better on literate people. A relatively uncommon regional contraction in the United States (South?) isn't really part of the issue. 108.162.226.103 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Poor Beret Guy. SilverMagpie (talk) 23:09, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

When I read the title text, I at first thought that some people spell "dammit" with one m or something, because of the words "with two m's". Well, I certainly wondered how other people misspelled it. 162.158.62.63 03:25, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

"Damn it"? Only one 'm'! KingPenguin (talk) 01:28, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

I'm familiar with the "pardon the pun" misuse thing from David Walliams' and Matt Lucas' short-lived BBC comedy series "Come Fly With Me", but this comic predates that by about a year. Perhaps XKCD is an apparently (to me anyway) seldom-recognised influence on Messrs Walliams and/or Lucas? Or maybe it's just coincidence. (P.S. I think it's probably just coincidence.)

@Danger Kitty (who doesn't have a handy User Talk page, yet)

Re: your question, it's {{Citation needed}} that you'd use (literally: {{Citation needed}}). There is also {{Actual citation needed}}, if you mean it. I personally don't think it's actually worth it/useful to add either of those where you wanted to, but I'm happy to let you know. (In short: []s brace external links, [[]]s brace (predominantly) internal wikilinks and {{}}s brace templates... which also includes wikilink templates like {{w}}. Look at page sources to check the usual formatting details for each.) 172.70.85.22 12:02, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

In volume 0 (the book) there is a number of clues given in red. I could not currently find a solution on explainxkcd or anywhere else on the internet. I therefore support the need for an incomplete flag. 172.70.251.159 (talk) 16:43, 8 March 2024 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

"My Hobby" is a series of xkcd comics in which Randall suggests (hopefully fictional) hobbies he has. The hobbies tend to be clever or smart-aleck things to do. They do not always fall under the type of activity that would generally be described as a "hobby", but often are merely things Randall (or Cueball) does when certain situations arise. "My Hobby" comics are not presented regularly, but there have been a number such strips throughout the course of xkcd.

Click to expand for a more detailed explanation:

There is a clear relation to the much smaller collection of Pet Peeves. See also Protip, Tips, How to annoy, Fun fact and Facts.

Randall's hobbies are many, and there have usually been regular returns to them, but after the February 6th 2017 comic, 1795: All You Can Eat, it took 165 comics and more than a year before the series returned with 1960: Code Golf, on 26th February 2018. This may also be related to the fun fact that the previous comic was from the Fun fact series, and was the second of those released in that same month, after several years without one. See more on the page for Fun fact. To be included the two words My Hobby has to be part of the comic. So this comic, 615: Avoidance, with the word Hobby included in the title text is not a My Hobby comic, since it does not specify that it would be Randall's hobby.

Also there are several comics that describes what could be called a hobby without the H word being mentioned. For instance Randall seems to be interested in looking like he can predict something, by guessing, and then looking cool or the like when he guesses correctly, see for instance this comic and its trivia, with three more examples of such comics.