Festschrift Puns

I'm interested in the idea of the Festschrift: its origins, how it spread throughout departments/disciplines/academic communities, how its characteristics have changed

The only source that talks about any sort of diachronic development I've come across is Wardenga, Ute (1995) "Totgesagte leben länger. Eine disziplinhistorische Analyse geographischer Festschriften" Geographische Zeitschrift 83 (1): 3–13, summarized below by Ender and Wälchli (2012):

>Wardenga (1995) [...] writes about the development of geographical festschrifts in Germany from 1893–1968 based on a sample of 117 festschrifts. Wardenga identifies three major types of festschrifts which form a diachronic chain: disciple-festschrift (D), disciple-and-friends- festschrift (DF) and disciple-friends-and-colleagues-festschrift (DFC). (Note, however, that the traditional Latin name for festschrifts – liber amicorum ‘book of friends’ – testifies to the fact that the distinction between disciples and friends is far from clear.) D remains dominant until the 1920s. Its main function is to demonstrate the scientific productivity of a school. Symptomatic for this period is that critical approaches to the work of the scholar to be honored are consequently avoided (Wardenga 1995: 5). The DF has become common after World War I. In this period, festschrifts are often used as an instrument in scientific politics. Characteristic for the DFC in the fifties and sixties is the subtle depersonalization which goes hand in hand with a significant quantitative increase (the Mehrfachfestschrift – several festschrifts for the same scholar for various birthdays – becomes more common). The thematic range of the articles in a festschrift becomes broader and begins to say more about the contributing authors than the scholar to be honored. Wardenga sketches a diachronic development: in D we find a subordination of the authors under the supposed principles of a school, in DF, the work of the scholar to be honored represents the basis which the articles draw from. Finally, in DFC we encounter a complete individuality of the contributions with a high degree of heterogeneity which, in turn, makes it increasingly difficult to see distinctive properties of particular festschrifts.

I'd greatly appreciate additional information/sources that simil

On the occasion of three billion seconds having elapsed from the time of his birth.

No deadline.

To be published in this thread.

Submissions to be peer-reviewed under the influence of green Chartreuse else rejected outright with a stern warning from the Presbytery.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

...Hugh Nibley points out in road to Cumorah. In a marginal note--just two words--about Mormon's description of Cumorah as "a land of many waters, rivers, and fountains," Nibley writes "spots"; "rock-pits." A few verses down comes another note: "Redoubt; Armaggeddon; Flanders." It is as though Hugh Nibley was scouting the area for Mormon, prior to the final battle. Something about the pockmarked, spotty nature of the landscape: rock-pits, fountains, and the criss-cross of watercourses, made of Cumorah, for Nibley, the perfect redoubt. (See his annotated Book of Mormon, one of many, BYU Ancient Studies Library, Hugh Nibley, BX 8622.1 A1 1963b, copy dated 7/5/78.)

The name Cumorah also describes just such a landscape. After all, the Akkadian root(s) kumara signifies to heap up, to pile, to tally; then, to strike down, annihilate. For Latter-day Saint Assyriologist Paul Y. Hoskisson, it is this verbal root that best describes Cumorah (see CAD K 111; Hoskisson suggests the reading heaps: "What's in a Name: Cumorah," Journal of the Book of Mormon).

Professor Hoskisson also notes in passing an ancient Syrian place name Kamaru and, following Jean-Marie Durand, suggests it represents an Amorite name deriving from the same root as Akkadian kumara. As Michael Astour tells us, Kamaru occurs (up to three times) in ancient Syria--and it persists to this day in the place name Kimar, Syria, just east of the Afrin River (see Michael Astour, "Semites and Hurrians in Northern Transtigris," etc.).

The same place name also appears in special Egyptian hieroglyphics used to write Semitic names and words. A list of place names recorded in the temple of Amarah West in Nubia gives us the Syrian Ginta ku-ma-ra, the Winepress of Kumarah. You cannot get any closer to Cumorah than the "reformed Egyptian," or hierogyphic "group writing," that expresses West Semitic Ginta Kumarah, that is, Gath Kumarah (see James Hoch, Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period, #425). = K. A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions II, 217, no. 98).

Professor Astour, taking his cue from the Akkadian dictionary, tells us what the Syrian place name means. The noun kumaru, kuwaru, etc., which signifies generally a construction of earth, specifically refers to a ramp or rampart (buttressing a city or city gate), or a dike. Such an embankment may have agricultural uses, or it may serve for defense, for a redoubt. Consider the

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

A play on words.

Pilot on me!!

My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.

Christopher Walken

Nothing, he was gladiator.