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November 28, 2005
Puns in Marketing Poll
(Filed under: Poll Results)
Last week's poll asked about the place of puns in church marketing, a topic raised a few months back.
The majority (58%) seem to like puns, with the caveat that they're clever and unique. But a sizable minority aren't too pun-happy, and a full 20% don't think puns should be used in any marketing at all. Ever.
So use puns at your own risk. And remember: Puns don't kill people, people kill people.
This week we survey how many churches have jumped on the blog-wagon, which is a fun question after our earlier post about a church not linking to its pastors' blogs. Early results (25 votes) show a resounding no to church blogging (84%).
Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks at November 28, 2005 8:42 AM
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I'm a 20%-er and proud of it. Luke Sullivan wrote in "Hey Whipple, Squeeze This" that puns are the lowest on the comedic food chain, and I tend to agree. I think we can be smarter than that; we can come up with smart interesting solutions, and to me, a pun rarely if ever, does that.
Puns simply aren't pun-ie (oops).
Posted by: Brandon Meek at November 28, 2005 12:39 PM
> Puns simply aren't pun-ie (oops).
Brandon, you ought to be pun-ished for that one.
Posted by: Greg Vennerholm at November 28, 2005 7:09 PM
I once submitted ten short puns to a site to see if any of them would win the contest being sponsored.
Unfortunately no pun in ten did.
Posted by: dovestar at October 27, 2007 5:31 AM
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