Joho the Blog » puns http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger Let's just see what happens Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:48:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 O failure, where is thy sting? http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2010/10/27/o-failure-where-is-thy-sting/ http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2010/10/27/o-failure-where-is-thy-sting/#comments Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:49:32 +0000 davidw http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/?p=9928 The Twitter hashtag #FailShare is accumulating instances of failed library projects, so that we can learn from them, and also, I imagine, to take the sting out of failure (on the grounds that sting-y failure makes for stingy ideas).

And, a brand new wiki page has gone up on the same topic.

(BTW, while on the topic of bad/good puns Frank Nugent once dismissed a disappointing play by the American playwright Clifford Odets with the line, “Odets, where is thy sting?”)

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JohnJoseph twittered back this rim shot.

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