Sunday 18 May 2014

Pung

Pung: noun. A pung is a truly and utterly terrible pun that on a scale from one to ten goes into negative numbers. The first recorded occurrence of the word was in a Budapest journal commenting on a show of a certain British comedian who came to the capital in 1992, his opening line for the night of pung being: "I was talking to a friend recently and 'e asked me where I was going for the 'olidays. I told 'im 'ungary. And 'e said: 'wut, you 'ung Garry?'" The only audible response the comedian received for the whole night came from a small child that broke out crying once it realised that its parents had abandoned it in an almost empty hall with the comedian and a newsreporter from the aforementioned journal (this newsreporter was the only person who remained by the time the first fifteen minutes passed, as the child then proceeded to run away screaming).

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It must have been at least fifteen minutes that Herb, Albert and the hidden Draculaic hummbug spent hidden from the hambourgeoisie. The time they spent waiting was used by Albert to make some unintelligible pungs (or at least that is what Herb presumed they were meant to be after hearing the one about the mlmth that mlmlmlmuuum the mmmmnnn to mnmumnmn). However, after some time passed and Albert's allergic reaction subsided, Herb realised that the pungs he was laughing at out of kindness weren't in fact stupid puns, but Albert admitting to his thesbianity, which made Herb feel slightly ashamed - not because of his own laughter at this profound moment of self-revelation, but rather because he felt ashamed for Albert who evidently didn't realise that his partiality towards chicken would only make him a thesbian if he were an actor. As the case stood, Herb decided that he would leave Albert behind, as he himself had a pet chicken at home and being around Albert made him feel a bit awkward. With a swift movement, he jumped through the first floor window of the rather forty building and ran for his life. 

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