[HN Gopher] Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles
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       Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles
        
       I made a site that creates puns using Wikipedia page tiles as the
       source of pun phrases
        
       Author : spacether
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2024-09-02 19:10 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (punnily.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (punnily.com)
        
       | politelemon wrote:
       | I like it! What's the process, are you looking up rhymes, then
       | Wikipedia titles containing those words?
        
         | spacether wrote:
         | Glad to hear that you like it! Yup that's the process. Titles
         | are in a relational db and fetched titles for a rhyme are
         | stored in redis to speed up queries after the first one.
        
       | gazook89 wrote:
       | Just fyi I think you could make the experience better (maybe with
       | another pun) if you hit the submit button with an empty field.
       | 
       | Right now it takes me to a poor error page
        
       | dataflow wrote:
       | It would've been lovely, but your "puns" aren't puns! I put
       | "trips" in there, and I got:
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       | - List of largest cruise trips <=> List of largest cruise ships
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       | - Trips Industries, Tips Industries
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       | What you have here instead are rhymes, but not puns.
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       | A pun would've consisted of two words that sound the same, with
       | both meanings usable in the phrase.
        
         | pimlottc wrote:
         | I agree, and even knowing this, I assumed it was finding pairs
         | of real articles that rhymed. But no. It's just a list of real
         | articles and made up rhyming titles.
        
       | ndarray wrote:
       | This is awesome. Might have some bugs as others mentioned but I
       | like this idea, it's capable of producing some hilarious material
       | in combination with swear words. Some of the word substitutions
       | are too dissimilar for my taste though I'm sure it's difficult to
       | get the tolerance right on your end.
        
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