The Fabric of Puns

Lightfoot: “Today, we’d like to honor our Star Trek fans around the world with a special pun just for them.”
Theo: “If Zefram Cochrane were a canine anthromorph, he would have affected the warp and woof of space-time.”
Theo’s computer signals incoming messages.
Lightfoot: “We’ve just scored more death threats than Salman Rushdie.” Theo: “I never thought that ‘fatwa’ was translatable into Klingon.”

This joke will test our readers’ knowledge or memory of The Satanic Verses, a book I’ve yet to read if only to see what the controversy was all about. I did visit a Klingon translator online (yes, it exists — translating in 44 languages, including Klingon), but the word “fatwa” wasn’t recognizable by the translation program. The closest to “legal opinion” (“fatwa” refers to a legal opinion based upon Islamic law, issued by a recognized source for such opinions) in Klingon is “mub vuD”. Thus spake the translator. Some Trek fan out there will probably prove me wrong!

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Darevenin
July 30, 2020, 5:11 pm
But this pun was funny.