I’m a simple man. I like simple things…like dinosaur puns.
Dinosaur puns are a formula: [some oddly-sepecific premise phrased as a question] = [some regular thing] + [some dinosaur-soundy thing]. Know what’s good at formulas?
Computers.
I was curious how well ChatGPT would generate dinosaur puns. Would they be funny?
(Separate existential thought: are any of them funny?)
Some of the puns below are “original”, some are GPT or GPT-inspired.
Can you tell which are which?
- What do you call a dinosaur that gives life advice?
Tricera-tips - What do you call a dinosaur that always knows the right word to use?
Thesaurus Rex - What do you call a dinosaur that’s good at barbecue?
Steak-osarus - What do you call a dinosaur that specializes in document shredding?
Ptearodactyl - What do you call a dinosaur that cries a lot?
Ptearodactyl (pronounced differently) - What do you call Vladmir Putin’s favorite dinosaur?
Tyrantosaurus Rex - What do you call a blind dinosaur with parent issues?
Oedipus Rex - What do you call a dinosaur with rhythm and a penchant for rhyming?
Velocirapper - What do you call a dinosaur with outstanding literacy?
Velocireader - What do you call a dinosaur that is good at questioning everything?
Socratesaurus - What do you call a dinosaur that is good at leading a country?
Obamasaurus - What do you call a dinosaur that is good at making electric cars?
Elonasaurus
- What do you call a dinosaur with Saturday Night Fever?
Discosaurus - What do you call a dinosaur who crunches numbers?
Calculator - What do you call a dinosaur that only eats vegetables?
Herbivorous - What do you call a dinosaur that’s good at basketball?
LeBrontosaurus
(also acceptable answers: Stephosaurus, any member of the Toronto Raptors) - What do you call a dinosaur that makes cubist paintings?
Picassorex - What do you call a singing dinosaur with problematic relationship issues who sells out arena tours?
T-Swift Rex - What do you call a singing dinosaur with such hits as Single Ladies, Crazy in Love, and Formation (who also sells out arena tours)?
Beyoncéraptor - What do you call a dinosaur who’s bad at golf?
Fore-ceratops - What do you call a dinosaur when he arrives?
Hi-ceratops - What do you call a dinosaur when he leaves?
Bye-ceratops
Two velociraptors share hilarious joke with a third, vulnerable dinosaur.
Location: Terra dos Dinos
1-7 are “original”.
8 was sent to me by my friend Wesley.
9 was inspired by 8.
10-12 are directly copied from GPT output.
13-20 are punched-up versions of GPT output.
21 & 22 are “original”.
This was an interesting exercise in taste and curation – which I think will become more and more important in a world of AI collaboration. GPT could generate 100s of examples in seconds. Most of them were very bad. Perhaps the 22 listed above are also very bad.🤷♂️
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