The second best pun I’ve ever encountered in the wild was when I was walking down the street in a “hip” part of Seattle and saw a couple of Budweiser cans thrown into a bush. And I said to a random stranger walking nearby “damn, the local beer harvest is really poor this year”. And the random stranger responded “give it time, they’re only buds”.
why is this the second what the fuck could top that
Brooklyn Life and Activities of Long Island Society, New York, May 23, 1925
(Steve saw this joke in 1925. He’s been repeating some version of it ever since.
He offers the set-up to Bucky in 2016, a shibboleth that’s a test-but-not-a-test after they let him out of the vise, because he’s ride-or-die on Bucky Barnes no matter what, but nobody else has to do the latter. Bucky gives him the punchline, but it’s the look of disbelieving horror and “You know that joke hasn’t been funny since 1928, right?” that lets him finally exhale for real.)
The real reason Bruce Wayne keeps training kids is so that there’s eventually a gradually cascading order of vigilantes protecting Gotham. When you defeat one, there’s a slightly smaller one just behind, ready to pick up the slack.
Steel Phoenix Studios 