T-Rex: Did you hear what happened when René Descartes won a horse race? They said he -

God: T-REX IF THIS IS A "DESCARTES BEFORE DE HORSE" PUN I WILL DESTROY THIS UNIVERSE

T-Rex: Uh - what I meant to say was that when famed philosopher Rene Descartes won a horse race, he - he was very happy. He was the father of modern Western philosophy and he had just raced actual horses on foot and, improbably, he won. The end, no moral.
Dromiceiomimus: Huh. It sounds like you were telling this story to set up a joke? Like there should be a pun there?
T-Rex: NOPE! There's definitely no puns here!!

Utahraptor: Pretty pointless story, T-Rex!
T-Rex: Yes, well, here we are.

Utahraptor: See he could've said "I THINK I'm good at beating horses in a footrace therefore I AM good at beating horses in a footrace", and this other person could say "hey you should shorten that" and Descartes could say "now now, let's not put DESCARTES before DE HOR-"
T-Rex: UTAHRAPTOR, NO!!

God: T-REX I JUST DESTROYED THE UNIVERSE AND REPLACED IT WITH ONE THAT'S THE SAME EXCEPT THAT HORRIBLE PUN NEVER GOT MADE
T-Rex: I guess you're really putting DESCARTES before the -
God: GOSH DARN IT