you are doing it.. (one of my "mantra's" when my children were behaving inappropriately...)
you generally aren't responsible for 'corrupting' serious threads(in what ever forum they happen to arise) with endless puns
(and i have been called to task (via pm and in public) for my failure to open a word processing program and run some of my post through a decent spell check.)
i actually have come to like spell checks, and have learned better from their consistant, low key mindless corrections to spell words that have eluded me for years.
DECISION is now a word in my written vocabulary. (for eons, i never used it. i couldn't spell, and could think of lots of wrong ways, (and could never remember the right way) so the idea that i could "look it up" was meaningless..
dec? or dic? or des? or dis? --for most of my life, i "opted" or make a "choice" or "came down on the side of" or countless other alternates.. (at least in my writing--i never made a decision!)
and i (full foot in mouth mode) once greated an other AWADer with the comment, "you are so nice in person.." (and stopped short before i blurted out that they came across like a school marm/master in some posts)
Actually, the problems was, i didn't always understand, or get their 'tone'--now--i read the post, and hear the sly tone of voice i know is behind the words, and laugh and enjoy the posts immensely.
(but i also failed to 'see' any humor in P.G.Woodhouse's books.. The fault lies in me.. the self same dyslexia that crosses letters, and mangles words in my mind, sometimes impedes my understanding of subtle humor. i often just don't get it. (i miss the humor in many a pun too. and they are so boring if they have to be explained..)
puns, on a serious note
