Every once in a while, a Feghoot pops into my brain. . .

[xiphias]

After the successful test of the brand-new hyperdrive, Captain Feghoot got a chance to meet the lead researcher of the team that developed it.

"What I don't understand, Dr. Fagan, is how you realized that the stable subspace strings that Dr. Poccator postulated would actually be strong enough to use for propulsion. How did you know that his theory would create a hyperspace tunnel? What led you to choose that direction of research over all the other competing methods that your team developed?"

"Well," Dr. Fagan replied, "You've got to pick a Poccator tube, boys. You've got to pick a Poccator tube."

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

I'm going to artfully dodge that awful, awful pun.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the trick to writing Feghoots is that you want the ENTIRE story to point towards the punchline. You can't have your pun be based on a turn of phrase or a double meaning of just PART of the story -- it really needs to be more of an all-over twist.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard of the art form before... it does remind me a great deal of the stories told on the radio program My Word, which were meant to ramp up to a terrible alteration of a cliche or saying -- more of a shaggy dog story, usually met with sighs and groans...though of course since it was radio, I had to visualize the audience's reaction. While Cpt. Feghoot never did appear in these anecdotes, it left me wondering just where they manged to keep coming up with advertising revenue for the program; I mean, who will buy this wonderful moaning? Such a sigh, I never did see...