Glutton for Pun-ishment

We buy this brand of meats at the Wheatsville Co-op here in Austin. I was fixing dinner last night and the pun occurred to me. Ground bison. Water buffalo. Air hog. 

Ground elk, Ground beef, Ground bison, Ground venison
https://forceofnaturemeats.com

Isaac Asimov's "Jokester" rested on the premise that puns are original to humans and that all other jokes are experiments by aliens. We laugh at jokes. We groan at puns. There is no such thing as an original joke; they are all variations of a known joke. Puns are typically spontaneous. 

Water Buffalos from National Geographic

One day, one of the technicians in the fabrication shop said that in the bottom of a controller, he found a bag of dirt labelled with the electronic symbol for "ground." 

Flying Warthogs from military.com 

When it is never going to happen we say, "When pigs can fly..." But like Pegasus and dragons and other chimeras, the flying pig is an archaic Greek image. 

Drachmon of 6.24 grams from Klazomenae c. 500 BCE

The funny thing about Pegasos, and (when you stop to think about it) angels, zombies, cystaline silicon-based aliens in hyperdrive spaceships, and whatever else we imagine, it all comes down to real attributes of real entities, just mixed up. We cannot imagine the unreal. The unreal cannot exist. 

Entities that do not exist could be potentially real. The fluorescent lightbub is a perfect example. Absent an actual working device, even Aristotle or Newton would require a lot of argument to accept the potential reality of such an object. You think that's a challenge? Try telling your Century 21 broker about the real value of ground bison.

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