Re: metonymous factors (or not) in humour

On Jul 29, 4:30 pm, Blue Sow <janet.r...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> FCS wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> Which part did you feel was 'metonymous'?

Perceptions of "public trans****t" as a genre.

When I heard the joke VCRs were hardly commonplace,
never mind the cliche that adults can't set them.
By which I mean many people think along the lines
(no pun originally intended) they are most used
to thinking along.

If the joke's comparatively recent then it didn't
play on existing perceptions. If it was coined
for use on a circuit that fixed-route trans****t was
in use until a comparatively late stage then did
it play on that? Is what I'm thinking.

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> Blue Sow

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